Oh, Canada!

What can I say?  Canada has bigger mountains, more mountains, bigger forests, larger lakes, more lakes, and more mountains and more lakes.  Unfortunately, the low clouds hid the tops of many of the mountains.  We did see many glaciers and ice fields and lot of beautiful scenery.  Although Canada has all this, I can't say that their food was top notch.  After three days of driving and eating our way to Jasper and Kamloops, we finally decided to try a "Timmy's"(Tim Horton's).  The breakfast there was very tasty!  McDonald"s doesn't even compare!  The majority of the trip we were forced to eat snacks in the car to avoid starvation.

When we got home, this was all that was left of the snacks!

 We headed for Cranbrook, BC.  We stopped at Fort Steele on day two.  The blacksmith was a very interesting guy.  He gave us the piece that he made, a very cool treble clef.   He has met a lady blacksmith online who lives in Ohio and they are going to get married.  He said she is very pretty and that she could "blow on his coals anytime".  

 Settler's house and garden at Fort Steele.  Volunteers plant and take care of all the gardens there.

The happy group on the second day of our trip.

Hoodoos on the way to Cranbrook.