USA Again

July 19, 2011

Well, tomorrow is my mom’s 90^th birthday!  We will celebrate as family and friends when we get home.  If I live that long I hope I keep my mind as well as she has.

Tonight we are camping in Banff Natl Park after a wonderful night up in Jasper at Honeymoon Lake campground where Marty and I and Jackie and Julie camped about 30+ years ago ( It was on that same trip that we had a bear walk into our campground and up on the picnic table while we hunkered down in the car).

On the way out of the park this morning we decided that we wanted to eat b’fast out – we went to a lodge and decided to have a muffin and cold cereal instead – two eggs and hash browns were 12.95 and if you wanted toast it was another $3.50.  Talk about highway robberyToday, while driving here I got a couple awesome pics of a bull elk eating alongside the road.  We also took a couple hikes today to waterfalls/canyons that were really quite beautiful. 

Another sight that is really awesome is the ice fields – some of the glaciers and the surrounding mountains are gorgeous.

Yesterday we got a couple good pics of a large black bear that Marty took right out the truck window. 

It rained all night last night and again much of the late afternoon into the early evening today.  We sat inside our “big” camper and read for awhile, but the lights got too dim.  We also made a very awesome supper – one of our canned beef meals/mashed potatoes and fried zucchini.  This was quite a feat considering that you go from the kitchen to the bathroom by turning around and you go from the kitchen to the dining room by leaning a bit and to the living room by plunking your butt on the small bench fully trapping one person behind the table.

Well the rain ended now and we did our dishes from two days.  Now it’s time for a game or two of rummy cube – Marty usually beats, but I do lead by 30 points out of over 800.  Ok, that’s not a huge margin, but I AM AHEAD.

7/20/11

Ok, back in the good ole USA - staying at a KOA just north and west of Glacier Natl. Park.  Gotta run now.

WE ARE IN A PLACE WITH SUCH POOR WI/FI THAT I CAN'T UPLOAD ANY PICTURES.  I'LL TRY AT A LATER TIME AND PLACE.