Lake Louise

Monday, June 7 -- Today we were finally able to check e-mail and post blog.  Kaylee, thanks for the e-mail.  The first picture is for you -- Bucky now has a friend, named Woolie Bear.  I think you'll like him too.  We are only buying the animals after we see them.  We are looking for a black "gray wolf," but haven't found one yet.  Have just seen the gray ones, and the one we saw was black.
We went to Lake Louise first today.  Marilyn and Collins went in their car today, so I don't have any pix of them.  This lake is very similar to Emerald Lake, but it has a huge resort on it.  It's raining off and on again today.  Yesterday was sunny almost all day, but it started sprinkling again about 7:00 p.m.

Next we went up the mountain to Morraine Lake.  It has glaciers behind it, and it still had ice on it.  It was only 42 degrees up there, a bit chilly!

Of course it had a gift shop.  Here's Grandpa dancing with the bear.

Then the four of us took a gondola ride.  We chose the enclosed car, rather than the open one.

It was really cold at the top, and a weather front moved in while we were there.  This would have been the day for the sock caps and scarves -- which are back in the RV.

We found another Brenda rock on this walk to the Interpretative Center.  Brenda, you have to haul this one down in the gondola, though.

It was a bit of a hike DOWN to the Interpretative Center, which meant it was a heck of a hike back up.  Here's me and Mazie laboring back uphill.  Probably got a little aerobic exercise in.  An interesting tidbit, what we call cattle guards they call Texas gates us here.  Brenda, you probably wouldn't want to drive the RV through them either.