The next stop was Lake Louise. Aunt I, though an Alberta resident for many years now, had never been to Lake Louise in the summertime. It is tourist madness, which is always rather unpleasant, but there is a good reason why it has become such a magnet: it is really, really beautiful. L and K tested the water with their bare feet. There’s nothing quite like standing in liquid ice.
We said goodbye to the mountains and headed to Calgary for the night. Although we all had a wonderful time, we were also tired of being campers and tourists. We went out for supper and enjoyed a warm house for the night.
Early the next morning we left for Winnipeg. We hadn’t decided whether we were going to do the whole trip in a day or stop for night somewhere along the way, but things were still going very well when we got to Regina, so we decided to press on. The next two hours were eventful for all the wrong reasons. K is still working on mastering the whole potty thing. I guess the pizza we picked up in Regina got things moving and we had to make 4 emergency roadside stops in the first 150 kilometres out of Regina. Several of them were false alarms, but, unfortunately, several of them were not. Good thing we could transport soiled underwear in the trailer instead of in the back of the car.
Anyway, we pulled into Winnipeg early in the morning none the worse for the experience. Now if only we had more camping planned for the summer. Oh wait, that’s what we were doing the last few days in between posts. Stay tuned.