we got up fairly early but had a leisurely breakfast. there was free wifi and a laundry. we did the major wash, the girls played on the small playing park area and we watched the parachutists come down. There were other kids that BB ended up having fun playing with, and so SB and I played ingenious. the campsite is owned by an englishman that just hasn’t quite gone home yet, and has set up what he would want in a campsite, and also an adventure – mostly aerial – holiday/activities.
Washing done we set off, going past a crazy ‘home museum’ with loads of broken down tractors outside and what may be classed as junk 
. time to drive down the columbia wetlands towards radium. it was a nice drive down, with loads of views of the columbia river and wetlands. rather hysterically the ‘viewing points’ all had trees infront of them, and the worst view of all. luckilly they did have geocaches… we stopped at one for lunch, and definitely loved the motorhome for the freedom to eat and prepare on the hoof. Enjoyed the completely different scenery here, very farm-in-tyrols similar, and some good traditional barns. thought that we could v much live here, as not in national park, but a quick hop into. the climate was def different than the other side of the rockies, and crops were definitely further along. the girls sang ‘in the jungle’ nearly non-stop and it morphed into a song of there own with many more woohoo’s in falsetto than the original!
we nearly went part of the way to the bugaboos but the road turned into track, and that was against the rental conditions, so we did a slightly scary 3 point turn and carried on to radium. loads and loads of mountain sheep – this time the male herds. it was scorching weather again – at last! Popped into the supermarked for supplies and went to the campsite. much more open than others, and had a play area near our pitch which the girls enjoyed.
Then we set off to the hot springs for a swim the route to these springs not quite as exciting as miette, but the girls were keen to visit these ones as a diving board essentially there is one hot pool for wallowing, and a cooler pool for swimming and diving. the girls much preferred it, and had fun swimming and coming down the little slides. me and sb also jumped off the diving board – see my decision to be a bit braver is already paying off! I couldn’t quite bring myself to actually dive tho – baby steps!! we spent ages there and i was quite prune fingered when we got out!
Back to the campsite for tea – had already defrosted bean chilli and had with wraps. early night as getting up early to go white water rafting the next day – very excited