Live long and Prosper

For our little day trip this weekend we ventured to Vulcan. Now I know Vulcan is a small town, and I know there isn't allot to do there, but after seeing the new Star Trek Movie we thought we'd go check it out. About 10 years ago, me Claudia and the girls would go into Vulcan and shop at the used book store, and a consignment store that was there. That's all I remember for the shopping side of the town, but it was fun to see Spock ears for sale in the grocery market, and every store for that matter.

So never having seen the "new" tourist information booth shaped like a Trek Station, we headed south to see it.

The Trek station is quite cool, you can have your pic taken for free with any cardboard cutout from the Star Treks. There are some really nice T-shirts and souvenirs, even from the new movie. But then when you hit the streets of Vulcan..... Everything is closed. And this is on a Saturday. The hours are Mon - Frid. We missed the Star Trek convention by one weekend, there were 5000 tourists in a town of a population of 2000. What did they do when they were here??? Maybe everyone was tired so they decided not to open this weekend. We did find Subway open tho' had our lunch and went on our merry way back to Calgary.

Well, it's not everyday you get to wear Vulcan ears tho' so the day wasn't a total loss :-)