Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Revelstoke, BC: Free Internet

Well, we found free internet again, this time in Revelstoke, BC. We'll have full posts up later, after we get consistent internet either in Vancouver or Victoria.

As a recap, though, today we had a busy day - we woke up around 6am, did Johnston Canyon's Upper and Lower Falls hike, and then drove up to Lake Louise. By the way, Lake Louise is amazing. It looks like Switzerland, with "chateau" and all. 

At Lake Louise, we did the Lake Agnes hike: roughly 1,000 ft. elevation gain over a few miles that culminates in majestic waterfalls, a beautiful frozen lake, and a tea house. It was amazing! I did the hike at speed-walking pace, which was a fun way to test my limits.

We had to get tea up at the tea house and I'm glad we did. We tried the "tea of the week", which was Maple, and it was absolutely delicious. After relaxing a bit in the tea house, Elizabeth and I made our way down while Orion went over to the "bee hive" (a rock formation) and then sprinted down as quickly as possible. He made it down the mountain in 17 minutes!

After the hike, we drove through Yoho National Park, Glacier National Park (in Canada), and Mt. Revelstoke. That reminds me, I'd like to thank my aunt and uncle for letting us use their Canadian national parks pass. It has saved us so much money! Thanks!

So now we're in the library, as I mentioned earlier, though we have a 1 hour time limit on internet. So our posting still won't be regular until we get to the United States. At that point we'll be able to resume our regular multiple posts per day. But we'll try to check in as much as possible, thanks for reading!

Rafael