I just went through all of the umpteenmillion pictures we have from the Jasper trip. Do you know how hard it is to choose which ones to show you? There are so many beautiful ones. The whole drive to Jasper is a picture opportunity and Bryan took full advantage of it. We were completely surrounded by mountains for the 5 hour drive, which actually took about 8 hours with all of our stops. We were tracking our elevation with the gps. Our highest was just under 7000 feet. We could not even count the waterfalls we saw. Some were right on the side of the road, which of course we got out so we could play in them. Well, not really in them because the water was so cold. Just about every time we stopped Brock found something to climb. You can see that in some of the pics. Some waterfalls were off in the distance on the side of a mountain. There were lots of lookouts we stopped at. And then there were a couple of waterfalls where we had to parked and then walk to. Those were the big ones. Water rushing down into large canyons it had created. Wow, it was amazing. Bryan got some on video. You can watch it. Then there were the glaciers. Huge slabs of ice on the mountains. It was pretty cold up there. There farther we went the colder it got. At one point we saw some snow flurries. Not much though.
Well that was our Jasper trip. It was fun and of course it was nice spending some time with Mavis and Louis. It was alot of time in the car. Anytime any of you back home want to come make the trip we would be glad to do it again with you.
Now we are planning our vacation. We will be leaving next weekend for Glacier National Park, in Montaan, for 3 days. Then we will be heading over to Seattle, Washington, which we will get to spend a few days with Suzanne and Clint. I am sooooooo excited about that. Then we will take a few more days to go to Vancouver and back home through the mountains. We might even do some camping along the way. I am a little worried about the bears though. We never had to worry about that back home.
I can't belive the kids will be starting school just two weeks after our vacation. At least we will get to do some of our school shopping in the states. Everything is so expensive here. Can't figure out why either. Oh well, not much I can do about it.
Be blessed my friends!!!!!
Alison
PS Brook G. I am so glad you found me. We need to get in touch with each other. Email me! Rachel says hi.
