A Visit With an Alberta Tourism Expert - Chad Kuechle CPA, CA

And that's kind of a big upcoming event for you with your CFO hat on.

But as someone who lives in Calgary, a family in Calgary, What would you kind of do for your own staycation? Are there some things, not just pick favorites, but what would you be into in the city?

I mean, I'll never pick favorites, but I do have a favorite.

I mean, I have four.

I mean, they're not young anymore.

My oldest is 19 and my youngest is eight.

But I mean, we can't go to not go to the Calgary Zoo at least once or twice a year.

To us, it's one of our most favorite landing places of the city, favorite attractions.

They continue to do great work over there and then just really immense you in those new environments.

Like the new polar bear exhibit is second to none.

And I don't know if you've had a chance to see the new red panda exhibit where you can actually see them walk across over top of you now between one area and another.

And I heard through the grapevine that they may have even something more special with the tigers coming, where potentially a tiger could walk over top of you.

Well, you're like, how cool is that, right? And so, yeah, Calgary has, you know, some amazing attractions.

But I mean, if I had to pick one, obviously Calgary Zoo, Heritage Park, you know, with my kids, we spend a lot of time at Calloway Park as well.

So there's just, there is so many things that we can do.

And I mean, that's not even touching our culinary scene and rest of restaurants that we can go to.

Yeah, there's so much to do.

and if we had to go outside of calgary do you think that alberta has enough to offer that would be an incredible vacation

100 i mean i mean i grew up in a world in alberta where where there was this this old uh marketing campaign called taking alberta break and this was years and years ago and my family took us everywhere we explored all areas of the province skidding in the back of my dad's little Ford Topaz, going from whether it's Edmonton, seeing the West Edmonton Mall, where me and myself, once I got my designation, I visited Fort McMurray, because I heard they were making a lot of money up there as CPAs, and I was like, maybe this is a great place to work.

Then I learned how much rent costs and I was like, ooh, that's just too much for me on my salary to rent a one bedroom for what was almost $1,000 at the time.

So I mean, yeah, we go all over the place.

Even my family, we go to Black Falls.

Black Falls is a small town just located outside of Red Deer and it has one of the most amazing outdoor pools.

two water slides, a little kid's little lazy river, a big diving board.

And to me, it's one of the best outdoor pools we have in our province.