There's no place like home

Just creepy or a swinger?

We went to a restaurant in Calgary for lunch. Drinks, sandwiches, nothing out of the ordinary. Until the bartender showed up. He shook my hand, which both of us thought was a bit odd. (Thankfully, I washed my hands before the food came.) Then he was really friendly and inquisitive about us, our trip, etc. When he brought the check, he also brought us his card... We paid cash so there was no way to track us down.

Post Hotel at Lake Louise

A beautiful log hotel with cabins along the Bow River.

Columbia Icefield

The Columbia Icefield is enormous! It's the largest accumulation of ice south of the Arctic Circle. It straddles both Banff and Jasper National Parks. Meltwaters flow into the Atlantic, Pacific and Arctic oceans.

We took an Ice Explorer onto the Athabasca Glacier and stood on ice that is as thick as the Eiffel Tower is tall.

Icefields Parkway

We drove from Banff National Park to Jasper National Park on the Icefields Parkway, an amazingly scenic road with glaciers, lakes and waterfalls.

This picture of Peyto Lake was taken from the Bow Summit hiking trail.

Sunrise at Lake Louise

Lake Moraine

This morning, we made a quick stop at Lake Moraine.

A rock for Mom

Alison and her mom were planning a trip to Lake Louise in 1999, but her mom passed away from cancer before they could visit. So Alison decided to bring a part of the lake back home to her mom's grave. Don't tell customs ;)