Tomorrow we go to Banff!
Today's drive brought all sorts of surprises, which was good because it was another long one (between 7 and 8 hours somewhere). Amanda and I are still doing just fine with driving, switching off as needed. We expected Alberta to follow Manitoba and Saskatchewan and basically continue the flatness till we got to the Rockies. We were still awestruck by the beauty of it, possibly due to the vastness and vividness of the colors-- the greens and beiges of the fields, the bright blue sky (alternating with the deep blue-grey apocalypse style clouds and some sweet lightning off in the distance). Our ears are telling us that we're definitely not at sea level anymore, pop pop pop pop pop. At one point, we went up a hill and around a curve and were suddenly in this gorgeous hilly area.
Other highlights of the drive included finding another Sibbald-- this time an itty bitty town just over the border into Alberta, and stopping for lunch in Fiske, Alberta, another itty bitty town that had a random gazebo in an empty lot. We saw an older man going for a stroll, and we're pretty sure he told the other twelve citizens of the town that some strange girls were having a picnic, because for being only a pair of blocks big, a lot of cars sure went past. Everyone waved though. Everyone's so nice here.
And then we got to Calgary, which probably wasn't going to win favorite city of the trip, but an emo twelve year old skater boy wearing skinny girl jeans flipped me off in an already psychotically stressful parking lot, so I have decided that Calgary is of no use to me other than being the layover on the way to BANFF!
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