Calgary Kilt Night!!

**Mr. Kilt** · 11th September 06, 10:27 PM

Just got home from the inaugural Calgary Kilt Night. It was a small gathering, only 3 of us in kilts, but a great time was had by all! We are already planning to do this again in October.

Left to right: My wife Karen; me, Will (Rampant Lion), and Brenden (B. Ramsay)

**mkmound** · 12th September 06, 07:09 AM

Lookkin' good, gents!!

**efer** · 12th September 06, 09:40 PM

Looks like a nice lil' rabble of 3

**Rampant Lion** · 14th September 06, 08:49 AM

Was a good night, that's for sure. This was the first time I've worn my kilt out casually and sure enough I got a compliment on my kilt.

I was getting ready upstairs when I heard someone at my neighbors door collecting for breast cancer research. I got down stairs and was putting on my shoes when they rang my doorbell. I was kinda in a rush to get to the pub and was considering not answering, but I thought that would look extremely bad since I'd be heading out the door 30 seconds later. So I quickly tied my last shoe and answered the door. On the step was a girl probably 13 or 14 years old and a friend of hers on the sidewalk. She said her little spiel(sp) and I told her that I only had a $1.25 in change on me(I had more cash, but that was for my supper at the pub) and when I put it in the icecream bucket she was carrying she said "Nice kilt. Where are you going?" I said I was off to meet some guys at a pub. She smiled and scooted (she was on a razer scooter) to the neighbors, and I headed out to my car when I heard her say to her friend, "That was awesome."

It totally wasn't what I was expecting and made a great start to the evening.

Just on a side note, I know this little story makes me sound cheap (regarding my donation), but I just like to state for the record that for our wedding, instead of having little favours for our guests to take home, my wife and I decided to take the money that would have been spent on the favours and make a donation to the Breast Cancer Foundation.

Boy, I do get a little long winded, don't I?

**cessna152towser** · 14th September 06, 08:57 AM

Great picture, must get myself across to Calgary again one day.

**Mr. Kilt** · 14th September 06, 09:18 AM

Originally Posted by cessna152towser

Great picture, must get myself across to Calgary again one day.

Again?? When were you last here?

Thanks for the compliments on the pic...I'm looking forward to the next one.

**cessna152towser** · 14th September 06, 09:48 AM

Not been to downtown Calgary, Al, but spent a few hours at Calgary Airport en route to Vancouver and Victoria where I spent 3 weeks on Vancouver Island. There are a couple of albums on my website, one covering the Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway and the other covering a trip on a Cessna 172 seaplane.