These are some pictures of the Stampede where we had a wonderful time watching the cowboys. The show on Sunday night was one of the best we have ever seen. It started with Chuckwagon races. !
Sunday July 13,
Today was the last day of the stampede. We left the campground around 4, our show started at 8, and what a show it was. It started out with Chuck wagon races. The wagons were pulled by 4 thorough bred horses, and followed by 4 riders and they had to do a figure 8 around barrels then race around the track. It was quite exciting, they were competing for 100,000 dollars. After the races the show began and we have never seen anything like it. It was a combination of Broadway, Circt- olay, and vaudeville with some motorcycle jumping thrown in, ending with fireworks. It lasted until 12:15 and we could have watched all night, it was so good!! The rally lasted until Tuesday, with a jazz band Mon. and a cowboy singer and poet Tue. night.
Wednesday morning we pulled out and headed north thru Banff National Park. We intended to go on North thru Jasper but made a misguided turn and decided to just keep going west thru Canada’s Glacier National Park and Mt Revelstoke NP. There were majestic mountains and river valleys everywhere, we had to stop once for Big Horn Sheep to cross the road, we stopped at Kamloops for the night.
Thursday July 17, 2008
Today we crossed into the Pacific Time zone and we are now 3 hours behind most of you. In addition to the 3 hours it also stays light up here for about an hour extra. I really don’t mind at all as I tend to be a nighttime person and my body didn’t have any trouble adjusting to sleeping in longer. My only trouble is Norm who isn’t a night person isn’t particularly sympathetic to my late sleeping! Today we came from Kamloops to Chilliwack via Rt 1. Again we followed beautiful rivers and Mountains. We stopped at Hells gate to take a tram to the bottom of the canyon but couldn’t find a parking spot to accommodate our motor home so we went on down the road a little and found a road that we could hike down on, We all started down but I realized we were going a long way DOWN so I started back up before Norm and Mickey. It’s the narrowest spot on the Fraser River where they had to construct fish ways for the salmon, and there is a suspension bridge crossing the river there, I’m not sure why. We went exploring for a hot springs outside of Chilliwack this afternoon. It was at a beautiful location on Harrison Lake, but a resort owns it now and they have made several swimming pools with different temperatures. We didn’t go in but it was a beautiful drive and lake. The surrounding mountains are known as Sasquatch country because dozens of sightings of the apelike creature, twice the size of man.
I'll follow with a few more pictures. Lois