Along the way, we stopped in to see Auntie Roseanne and Paul. I haven't seen Auntie since I was 18 so it was a lot of fun. We all had a really fantastic chat and a good time before carrying on. It's funny though, how strong the McKenna DNA is. Mom and Uncle Jack look like Gramma Jessie while Auntie Sandra and Auntie Roseanne look like Grampa. Regardless, all of us (Mom, Auntie and I) look scarily alike.
One of the many, many thinks I love about Alberta is the diversity of the scenery.
We stopped at Red Rock Canyon, a place I've never been to before.
I would like to remind readers that we are in a national park in Canada - a first world country. These parks are well established but poorly funded. Our previous government didn't believe in funding things like the military, or national parks or non-oil based resources. As a result, money spent on the national parks system went ..... well, we don't know where it actually went but we know where it didn't go - the toilets.
We arrived at the same time as a group of British tourists. Our national parks system is world class and attracts people from literally everywhere. If you take a second to offer a smile and to take someone's picture with their camera (because selfies suck, and so do pictures with only most of the family/group), you'll find that people have come from around the world to visit the mountains. These people will also need to use the washroom. I did too. The young British ladies were loudly unimpressed that they were drop toilets in the middle of a national park. So was I. But when you gotta go, you gotta go.
Red Rock Canyon is aptly named and simply stunning. Google is giving up nothing in regards to the make up of the rocks but that doesn't really matter. They're gorgeous.
In Waterton, we five bears.
Two were on the golf course - a mama and a cub. They were having a snack on the greens before retreating to the other side of a wind break. A guy came along to play the hole, not knowing the bears were less than five metres away! They didn't eat him and I am only mildly disappointed. Two more were having a snack on the side of the road and the fifth was lounging in a field.
After a picnic dinner, we did some geocaching around the lake.
Next: City times!
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