We are going to have to do a backwards post again because I'm exhausted and the pics came in backwards!
Trev's photo dump
So disappointingly, no pictures today! Our internet at our chalet is going VERY slow tonight and I just can't get them to upload. It will have to wait for a dump in Canmore!
No grizzly bear sightings from our deck last night! Darn!
We were booked on a 9:15am boat cruise on Maligne Lake for this morning but when the weather looked bad yesterday and I went to check on whether the boat was covered, I saw that they had changed the opening day to June 10th! Oddly, they hadn't contacted us at all to let us know our boat trip was cancelled. I was confused last night and ended up using social media to contact them because all of their numbers were closed at that point. I heard back early this morning from them to say yes, it is not running because there is still ice on the lake. Nice of them to let us know! Sigh.
So change of plans for the day a bit. It actually was ok. We would have had to leave really early this morning to make it in time and honestly we needed a quiet morning. We have literally not stopped since we got here. We generally, get back to our room at 7pm, get all of our stuff ready for the next day, get kids to bed, write in journal/blog, crash. So I was ok with a quiet morning.
The day turned out to be basically the same as the last few weather wise. Calling for rain all day but really only rained maybe 10% of the time. The rest of the time just a bit cloudy but the weather really didn't impact our day much (except for impacting the views a bit).
OK my pictures came in backwards for some reason tonight and because our hotel doesn't have wifi in the rooms I am using Trev's data and don't want to do it again so we will have to just do the day backwards!
Today we went from Whistler to Revelstoke. It's about a 6.5 hour drive. The forecast was not looking good but it wasn't raining when we got up so we decided to move our butts along quickly and try to get to a hike we wanted to do! The hike was about 20 minutes in and 20 minutes out and it brought us to a site where a train had wrecked in the 50s. They didn't know what to do with the rail cars so they had a logging vehicle just pull them into the bush and they left them there. They have since been taken over by graffiti artists and have also become popular with mountain bikers with jumps made on and around them. It was actually a very cool place! Unfortunately while we were looking at the rail cars it started to rain quite hard and we were pretty wet by the time we got back to Big Chungus. We had hoped to go to the waterfall we skipped yesterday but it was very wet so we decided to just get on the road. We had a full day of driving ahead of us to get to Revelstoke and we didn't want to get in too late.
About an hour into the drive I looked back and Anna looked white as a ghost and she said she was going to throw up. I threw her a bag and she proceeded to throw up. Looks like she inherited my car sickness gene! When you see the timelapses below you will see why she got car sick. It was a pretty wild ride today with so many twists and turns and ups and downs! Unfortunately it rained about 75% of the time. But every once in a while we'd emerge into a sunny spot and be able to enjoy the mountain scenery for a bit until we hit a wall of rain again.
