Ahhhhh......this is the life!

So, we're now back in one of our favourite spots in Canada - Jasper National Park.

Jasper is having a mini heatwave at the moment so the shorts are on and our lily white legs are out! We're experiencing highs of around 30 degrees, similar to what you're having back home as we understand. The difference here in the mountains is that it drops to around 2 degrees at night so, it's good for sleeping.

Have had some really loud but interesting thunder storms over the last couple of days - sun is out it's nice and hot, it thunders and then hails - really changeable weather.

After the thunder & lightening!

So what have we been up to....  more of the same to be honest.  Lots of walking, exploring, getting bitten (by insects) to within an inch of our lives, seeing new things, more wildlife and oh, taking the rental car to the garage for an oil change and doing the laundry, just to break up the fun!

Us at Peyto Lake

Maligne Canyon

Waterton Lake

At the moment we're taking things quite leisurely so we can recharge our batteries in readiness for our massive hike at Lake Louise in a few days.  Rob is making me walk about 8 miles with an elevation gain of around 2000 feet.  I will need oxygen!  Should be good though.

Rob's new driving position!

We're spending about another week in the Canadian Rockies and then we'll drive back into the states to start our 3 month driving tour... Wonder what that will bring?!?!

We've been away now for 37 days, I miss some of my home comforts (but we'll get those back in a few months), people and Henry cat, who by the way is having a fab time without us.  He has already been filmed by Channel 5 to hopefully appear in one of their pet programmes after Christmas - what a little star *, can't wait to see that!

By the way, Rob's added some other links on the right hand side of the blog, some geeky things like the routes we have taken.