Tea and Taco Time

We're just hanging out at my family's home in Cranbrook, washing, drinking tea and cooking good food. Kat has discovered that burritos taste good with something in addition to her bean mix and I learned how to cook corn. The pay tv got pretty boring after about six hours so now we are stuck with talking to each other and playing bluegrass music.

After Lake Louise we drove to Jasper along the Icefields Parkway. It truly is a spectacular drive. Rufus Wainwright accompanied us past impossible glaciers, dense forests, turquoise lakes and Houdini-killing-breathtaking peaks. But its indescribable, in print or photograph, you just have to be there. On the Icelands Parkway when you seen a cluster of cars pulled over on both sides of the road its not a storm or a road accident. As you approach you realise the group of motorists have now turned into paparazzi wildlife photographers. We were lucky to encounter two black bears, not more than twenty feet away and a bunch of other hoofed and horned animals that I can't correctly identify. The drive took much longer than expected.


We swam at the Miette hot springs and camped just outside of town. After checking out the Maligne Canyon we drove back to Banff. Here Kat discovered that she doesn't enjoy sipping French champagne with a view of the Rockys and hobnobbing it with the rich and nouveau rich travelers (read recent retirees). We didn't stay in Banff, instead drove to Cranbrook for a real bed.