Oh Canada!

We are home after our amazing trip to the Canadian and American Rockies. 

I was surprised by how warm and flat our tap water tasted after a week of drinking cold glacier water.  The water in Canada may be cold, but the people are warm and friendly. Everywhere we went the natives were great. We could also pay for stuff with US money – they did the conversion where necessary and gave change in Canadian money.  They use coins for one and 2 dollar denominations. 

The one dollar coin has a loon on in and is called a loony. I showed one to Sophie and the first thing she noted was it didn’t have a smooth circular shape.  Instead it is 11-sided.

The two-dollar coin is circular but has intermittent groves and spaces on the edge.  It has a copper center and nickel ring. Sophie saw this and said it was cool.

The Caravan bus tour we took hit all the places we would have gone if we had planned the trip and added some we would have missed.  The tour was well-organized, evenly paced and very enjoyable.  The countryside was scenic and enjoyable so going to each place was not boring. The weather was ideal for all but one day and that was the “best” day to rain on us if we had to choose one.

We didn’t see as much wildlife on this trip as we saw on our Montana trip.  We did see a lot of elk.

I’m not going to talk about specific locations tonight – that will either come in later blogs or I’ll forget about it.

Today was our first full day home and I spent most of the morning sleeping. I came hold with a cold which was a nasty coughy-sneezy thing.  Fortunately the worst of it lasted just 2 days.  It is still with me today but it is tolerable now.

The rest of the day went to unpacking and laundry and I only got about half-way through those chores.

Penny put together a picture book, drawing from the 3000ish pictures we took, and it is now in process at Winkflash.

I’ll end with a couple of pictures I liked.

Lake Louise after the fog lifted.

Peyto Lake – yes it really is that color.