WE HAVE AN APPLE STORE IN CALGARY!!!

Okay, okay, take a deep breath. That's it...breathe in sloooowly. Now exhale...
WE HAVE AN APPLE STORE IN CALGARY!!! WE HAVE AN APPLE STORE IN CALGARY!!!

Did I mention that we now have our own Apple store in Calgary? Oh, and I got a T-shirt.
Yessir the grand opening was on Saturday. Denver and I went with Jim and Connor Muirhead. We decided to be early so we got there at 6:30 am for the 9:30 opening. Denver and I were 9th and 10th in line. There were a couple of geeks who had been there since 5:30 the night before. And no, being there 3 hours before the opening does not qualify me as a geek. What else am I going to do at 6:30 on a Saturday morning? I mean besides sleeping?

At around 9:00, about 50 Apple employees came pouring out of the back of the store somewhere and came yelling and clapping down the mall which got everyone in line (which had swelled to 3 or 400 by then) cheering and clapping. I think they were on a self-induced sugar high or something.
Just before opening they all gathered inside the store in two lines and started chanting and getting pumped up. I'm not sure but I think they offered up some sort of animal sacrifice just before the doors opened.

Then their leader came out and led us into the store where we had to run a gauntlet of screaming, Apple savages, high-fiving us all the way I was a little embarrassed but did my best to be cheerful.

You can see the blue and orange T-shirted gauntlet that I had to pass through, narrowly escaping with my life.

Needless to say, I'm pretty pleased that we have our own Apple store in Calgary. Now I won't have to travel all the way to Dallas or New York.

Denver, looking cool as always, waiting for the big opening.

Do these earphones make my head look big?

Jim Muirhead working as he waits in line.

Like father like son. Connor working too.