NEWSFLASH!!!

HI! we are now at our apartment in Garneau! and we have a spa! YAY! 

Anyway, for about 1 week we where in the Rockies! in the rockies we had been to jasper and banff national parks (they are not one big park). Did you know that Edmonton is 700m above sea level, and Jasper is about 1000m?, and we had walked to the top of Whistler's Mountain at 2.3km (but only after the tramway took us up to the tree-line). 

And I had been in snow for the first time! me and dad had a snow fight and when dad threw a snow ball I had my glove on so I put out my hand so I could make the snowball explode. This happened a few more times and when he threw it at my face I put my hand out, when it exploded all of the snow from the snowball went all over my forehead! Then I got my revenge! when I hit him the snow went all down his back and on his neck and every where you don't want it to go! We also saw a snowfall! (lots of snow falling off a mountain from a glacier breaking up). It was so cool! It sounded like really loud thunder, and every fall of the ice had probably 2 tonnes of ice and snow!

Here are some cool images of animals we saw near Jasper. We found them grazing next to the road, but it was easiest to look for the piles of stopped cars and people with cameras!

 moose

  big horn sheep

Do you know how to tell how old a big horn sheep is without asking it? We will reveal all in a post later.

 colombian ground squirrel - Canada has a lot of these!

 'Empty window'

This is a photo I took of an old mining house halfway up a mountain. Mom (we're in Canada) had to bribe us with promise of McDonald's for dinner to get us to the top.  This is a cool spot for throwing rocks and making shapes made from the rocks. It is the Athabasca River.

bye for now and keep the comments coming. M