From Lake Louise to Quesnel =)

9. Day

Camping – Lake Louise Mountain Resort – Camping

This morning it was damn cold, we were a little afraid that our tank was frozen but luckily it wasn’t.

So we ate breakfast and got ready to hit the slopes. Unfortunately the weather wasn’t really good, it was misty, almost foggy and really really cold, freeeezing. On the top of the mountain was it very windy and about minus 10 degrees.

So I took just a few runs and then went to the lodge to warm up and wait for my pro friends. :P

After snowboarding we had a great dinner and then watched the second half of the second part of “The Lord of the Rings”.

And as we were told that this night should be a big party in the village we walked to the Lake Louise Inn to visit the Explorers Lodge.

Guess what, we had to pay 2 dollars coverage and got a cross on our wrist made with a waterproofed pen, haha, and the party was awesome, noooot!

Everybody was tired from the coldness and snowboarding we left after a beer and took our way home to our lovely motor home.

And finally the motto of the day… =)

“I han gschlofe bisi verwachet bin!” Or “Whiskeyjack” Or (just for the “pro’s”) “In your face!”

10. day

Lake Louise – Banff National Park – Jasper National Park – Jasper

Another freezing cold night was over, all our windows were frozen and so the water pipe and we guess our water tank too.

But anyways we started the day like every other, with a good breakfast. Just one thing was not like yesterday, the weather! It was just gorgeous!

That’s why we visited the famous Lake Louise!

Today was the day of the pictures! :P

The Rocky Mountains are just picturesque! It was amazing! The snowy mountains, beautiful clear blue lakes and the cute animals! Once we took a picture where the whole family was standing on the street and the camera was around 20 meters away from us on the middle line of the street! It was a fortune that there was not much traffic so nothing happened to us. :P

When we arrived in Jasper all of us were hungry, so we were looking for a place to eat when we suddenly saw a laundry room. Since a few days we were talking about washing our clothes soon because the snowboarding outfits should be washed before long. So we decided that we are going back to the motor home to get our clothes our notebooks, because there was an Internet coffee right in the laundry room. On the way back to the motor home we saw a pizzeria and just ate ‘lunch’.

After that we took all our stuff to get it washed, buuuut when we arrived at the laundry room we had to recognise that it closed 5 minutes before. =( So no clothes will be washed today.

That’s why we took our way to Wapiti, this is the camping ground for this Saturday night and it’s a really nice one. =)

We also got to know our neighbours and they should us what we should visit in BC.

We were thinking about shorten our route because we thought that we wouldn’t have enough time for visit everything we want to. But after talking with the neighbours we are ensured that we are going to have enough time to continue the trip like we supposed to do.

Later that night we were sitting around a campfire with our neighbours and had some drinks! It was a lot of fun! =)

Motto of the day…

“picture picture!” Or “Tofino is as big as this parking! I am not joking!”

11. Day

Jasper – Prince George – Fort St. James

We started early this morning because we thought we would drive some hundreds of kilometres.

While driving another hour through the National Park of Jasper we stopped at a viewing point to take some pictures. We saw that we had to walk a few minutes to get to the waterfalls. So Claudio and me tried to play deer and bears. :P

It was still a little chilly so we ran down the path when it suddenly happened. Claudio wanted to imitate a frightening bear so he ran really fast and slipped out on a piece of ice. So he hurt himself a little, but actually it had a good point, our children learnt now that it’s not a good idea to run in a National Park in April. So we built our motto, which was “Hop la Hop! Don’t play bears and deer in a National Park!”

We walked down the rest of the way carefully and slowly and finally got to a small waterfall. :P but it was really nice though.

Later we continued our way to Prince George. Our expectations weren’t really high because everybody told us that Prince George isn’t very special and it’s not worth it to stop there.

But since Mario broke our fire alarm, and we were once more looking for a washroom but found a home department store we gave Prince George a shot but actually it wasn’t worth it at all. It just stunk! :P

So we just did our grocery shopping there and ate something and went on to Fort St. James.

When we arrived in Fort St. James we were looking for a RV park, and we just found to which where closed. On the second one we thought we could ask if they are open because the winter was so mild. So we asked the lady in the office and she just told us that they are still closed and we would have to look for another one. That’s why we were standing in front of our motor home and finding a solution when her husband came and asked what we would need for the night. He told us that he could give us just energy, water and a sewer. That was far enough for us, but it meant that we have to inaugurate our washroom! :P hahaha

Thanks god that Canadian people are so friendly and helpful so we had a place to stay for the night! =)

On our side there was a fireplace so we came up with the idea to barbecue some sausages and make baked potatoes. So Mario and me drove to a near general store to buy some things. Unfortunately they didn’t have foil for the potatoes but as Canadians are so friendly they gave us they’re own roll of foil. :P

So we enjoyed delicious baked potatoes, sausages and chocolate bananas for desert.

Like almost every evening we watched another part of “Lord of the Rings” but this time with POPCORN! =)

12. Day

Fort St. James – Prince George – Quesnel

After leaving the campground we visited Fort St. James. We drove to the visitor’s centre of Parks Canada. In front of this was a jalopy where we for sure had to take pictures and play around. A few meters away was a big information sign where you could push a button and it told you about the Fort from around 150 years ago. That’s why we wanted to visit this fort then, but unfortunately the visitor’s centre looked closed so we wanted to try to walk around the house go get in anyway. But suddenly someone called us. It was a man from the staff of Park Canada. He asked us if we want to visit the museum and the houses from 19^th century. So he opened the exhibition for us, so we could learn some things about the history of Fort St. James.

Later on we were on the bay back to Prince George and as we were running out of clean clothes we were looking for a Laundromat.

So we spent a few hours there and continued later our way in direction south to Quesnel.

When we got there, played soccer and enjoyed the beautiful weather.

Hehe as the guys wanted to drink a beer the recognised that they forgot the beer on the other camping ground. Haha =)

So we thought about driving to the liquor store to get some new ones, but the Mario came up with the idea that they people from the camping could have some beer in their store. So he went there to ask them and when he came back he told us that the beer is being delivered in about ten minutes. We all thought he was kidding but he wasn’t! So few minutes later a car arrived on our side and brought us beer. :P

This evening we watched the last part of “Lord of the Ring”.

Motto of the day…

“Beer delivery service!!” :D