Friday, July 26th

Hello to all of you from Banff!  49 degrees when we we left this morning. We travelled through snow sheds which block the roads from avalanches, Columbia Mountains, National Parks and Forests, and the Canadian Rockies.  The further East we went the higher the mountains.  Here in Banff at the hotel we are 6,600 feet.  Banff is the third oldest National Park in the world.  We were so excited to see a young bear run across the street in front of our bus.  We are now on Central Time.

  

We stopped at a grocery store to get lunch and ate at a picnic table at a rest stop.  No restaurants on this road, the trans Canadian highway.

 

We made stops at the breath-taking Lake Louise and Lake Moraine.

                                             Lake Louise
  
                                      Lake Moraine

It is now 50 degrees.  Hotels here do not have air conditioning because they never need it.  However, the locals have said that last week it was hotter than it has ever been.  We’re lucky that it’s back to normal.