We get emails from Calgary saying we got out in the nick of time. A huge snowfall Wednesday has cancelled flights, closed Deerfoot Trail and our neighborhood is snowed in. People are not even trying to get to work in Calgary today! We finally wake up before the poor continental breakfast is cleared at 10am. Then off to explore the area. After getting a ‘free’ SIM card only to find it only works on WhatsApp, we find the excellent Engel store nearby. They don’t sell pay as you go SIMs but you buy it from the news kiosk outside for $5 (including a tiny 100mb of data, 100 free texts and some local calls, to be topped up later.) The young man in the Entel store puts in my SIM card and sets it all up with my same phone number as in Calgary. How easy is that. All with a smile and no charge! But it won’t work in Argentina and is only valid for one month without topping up. But at least we are in the counication business again. I brought my old iphone but don’t see a need yet to set it up for Ted.
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