Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Jasper

With his new Canadian assignment, Mike gets one Friday off each month. It is intended to be a day to make doctor's appointments or other activities that need to be done during the work week. We decided to use the extra day this month to make the trip to Jasper. It is in the Canadian Rockies, about a 5 hour drive from Calgary.

We had a fantastic trip and Olivia did surprisingly well on both the long drive there and back. There are several points of interest along the way that are just breath taking. We got a chance to revisit Banff and Lake Louise on our way to Jasper. We got to see several waterfalls and tons of snow capped mountains. It was truly so beautiful!!!!!!

Athabasca Falls


Lake our hotel was on

Our hotel, Fairmont Lodges

Hiking down into a canyon

One of the many waterfalls

Medicine Lake...each winter natural springs drain the lake. In the summer, the snow melting off the mountains fills it back up.
A moose!
Our hotel again


Maligne Lake...Olivia was here

Refusing to put her pants back on after a diaper change. We were so cold, she didn't care though!
Doing some shopping

Playing her new maracas in the hotel lobby


The fam at the hotel

On the FREEZING hike to the Columbia Icefield glacier

Olivia loves her backpack, but she didn't really enjoy the hike it was so windy and cold, so we never made it to the glacier. Maybe next summer!

5 comments:

Unknown said...

Looks like so much fun! Little Olvia's parka looka so cute on her. She looks so cozy on Mike's back in her little carrier. She has seen more from her "perch" in a year, than most people see in their lives!

Newby said...

I love ALL of those pictures. Especially the diaper one, her name in the snow, and of the silhouette of you two. Amazing!

The O'Connor Family said...

So glad she got to see a glacier before it melted. That's awesome. I really love the one of you two in your hats. It is just so sweet.

The Adler Family said...

Looks freezing but so much fun!!! Olivia looks so cute all bundled up in Canada. By the way, that maze looked like a blast - I've wanted to go to a big garden maze like that since I was a child. How neat!

Carrie said...

beautiful and awesome shots of everything. We need to get you and Olivia matching hats!!