The next day was probably the highlight of my Rockies trip, which is amazing, because all we really did was go for a drive, but it was probably the most stunning drive i have ever taken. In fact, I enjoyed the drive up to Jasper rather more than i was taken in by the town itself.
First stop, Lake Louise.
Again, somewhat not nearly as melted as we had originally hoped (well, with a few exceptions (see above!)), but still very pretty and very cool, and you get a better sense in these pics as to how big the lakes are from the tiny weenie people towards the back of them.
Next stop, the Crow's Foot Glacier (looks like a crow's foot, except that one of the toes fell off/melted and now it's a crippled crow of some sort. That's global warming for you.
There was also a really crow (or maybe a raven, who cares) at the glacier who stalked us the whole time we were there, so i had a photo shoot with him...
Back on the road, and no longer stalked by our feathery friend, i took loads and load of photos of mountains and snow in various combinations. I shaln't bore you with the whole sequence, but here's a few...
Somewhat closer to Jasper by this time we all knew we wanted to stop at the Columbia Icefields - aka the Athabasca glacier. It's pretty cool. It would have been even cooler to walk on it, but the price tag associated with doing that is a little too steep for our liking, and we figure we've just spent all winter walking on snow and ice anywayz (admittedly not ice that's been there for ancient amounts of years, but still, it's all frozen water in the end...)
Probably the best part of this mini excursion, though, was seeing the glacier buses they use to drive people up the glacier (if you're prepared to pay for the pleasure...)
They're awesomely ginourmous. That would have been fun; maybe another time...
Down the road we went for a wander around the Athabasca (ice) Waterfalls. They were very pretty, and i dare say would be rather spectacular during the summer. The pics will be up on picasa, but i'll try not to put tooo many more up here for now.
Somewhat later, having passed even more waterfalls and mountains and snow and fun crap like that, we arrived in Jasper, which is to say that we drove down the approximately 1 street of shops that constitutes the whole town. (Maybe that's unfair, maybe there are two...).
As it happened, today was Easter Day. Arriving at our hostel we were immediately invited to join in with an Easter potluck they were having with everyone in the hostel. Never having had a roast dinner on easter in my entire life (i don't think...) i was rather keen, and in my world a raost dinner can't exist without yorkshire puddings, so we all went shopping to get some ingredients. The dinner was awesome. The guys working at the hostel got the ham and then everyone else had done veggies and salads and pasta and all sorts of things. My yorkshire puddings were hilarious. They worked really well and everything, and those of us familar with them really enjoyed them. However, what i enjoyed the most was the look of utter bewilderment as to what these strange things were and what on earth you were supposed to do with them from everyone else in the room. Apparently yorkshire puds are difficult to decifer...
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