Day 4 = shopping day in Jasper and pyramid lake

our youngest, BB, is a bit of a shopaholic. People that have been to English Heritage sites with us may remember some of our shopping experiences. Needless to say, we are keen to minimise the occassions, and so we had pre agreed that there would be some official ‘shopping’ and other to tht, we would only consider the spending of money if behaviour exemplary and item wished for pre approved The girls were both v rich for this holiday with both sets of grandparents and aunty M providing them with money [that reminds me, we owe SB £51 ! as borrowed from her...] and SB had saved her birthday money.

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where are we?? fairly certain we had a lazy morning and waffles for breakfast and then went into jasper to look around, get some shopping done for bb, as designated shopping day, and also buy a something to allow us to BBQ. parked the rv and walked in, and Jasper being The Town in Jasper national park there were a great number of touristy shops for the girls to walk in and peruse goods. BB was delighted she bought a beaver cuddly in one shop, a black bear cuddly in another shop and a purse in another,and so was v v happy. SB bought a canada t shirt. we ended up at the info place, and signed both girls in for the Xplorer programme, and because we were moving on the girl gave me the tags for when they finished. nipping into their shop and we bought some spotters guides for tracks and animals, both were invaluable, and also some other books. BB fell in love with some animals as well, so after discussion, she bought them instead of having another shopping day :).

we then went and had some lunch at a nice cafe, realised there was no wifi anywhere i had a v yummy pita pizza, sb had soup, bb cheese 0n pita and not sure re DH! we had bought the things for BBQ and so i planned to buy an icecream for the girls and DH would buy some groceries and we would meet at a park. this really didn’t work out. i failed to find park, we both wandered about getting hot – me with grumpy children! so i decided to go pack to the info place and hoped he would to. luckilly he did! we did also find a geocache.

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having met, we went to yellowhead museum – a bijou museum of immense smallness but very lovely none the less. there was a lot bout david thompson – an early explorer that we had read about and heard about before, and also quite a bit of early life in the parks. there was a small hands on section, and sb dressed up, but bb had had enough really, having got a bit too worn out when traipsing looking for her daddy earlier! we finished off with finding a geocache outside.

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We piled back in the motorhome and drove up to pyramid lake, wishing we had brought wood so could have bbq there! pyramid lake v v beautiful. loved the bridge across to the island and the peace there. would be a great place to canoe, and also ppl get married there – seems a good venue for that too. we wandered around the island, the girls hopping from treetrunk to tree trunk, and me and DH soaking up the atmosphere, the mountains and the lake and breathing in the pure mountain air – bliss we did also look for a cunningly hidden geocache, and also an earthcache. we all paddled in the lake wobbled on the stones and got bitten by the ever present mosquitos! dunno, laughing, splashing in the cold water with clear air seems like perfection. Really wished we had brought the wood to spend the evening there!

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However, we hadn’t so we went back to camp, saw some female elk on the way home – there was quite a number around wapiti campground. back at camp got the fire burning, SB and BB did some journal writing -the aim was to keep a journal of days each, with sticking in leaflets and some words in SB’s case. However SB has been so detailed with hers [more detailed than this blog!] that she is still on day 7. when i get there, i intend to blog as she writes . successful BBQ, the veggie hotdogs were ok, the burgers neither bb nor i could bear. we laughed, loved and DH and I got to play a game when the girls went to bed. we still had forgotten to buy any beer tho! Both BB and SB lost teeth this day! SB a molar, and BB one of her ‘vampire teeth’ . the tooth fairy came overnight

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