Admittedly, in the past 6 months or so since our wedding, the frequency of our adventures has ebbed to a relative low. We have temporarily shifted our gazes inward, to our home, and each other. Not a bad thing, unless you have your hearts set on lots of new blog posts…
On the September long weekend, we headed out west. We spent the first night in Yoho National Park, at a provincial campground. To our great surprise, we ran into some friends of ours at the same campground in the morning. It was great to have breakfast with
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Friday brought us another beautiful day and more hot springs! After the traditional pancakes with blueberries (and a bit of scrambled eggs on the side), we drove from Goat River to Cranbrook where we restocked some supplies (Tim Hortons coffee, bbq lighter, s’more fixin’s).
We drove up through Kimberly and Invermere, before winding our way up to Lussier hot springs.
The hot springs were PACKED: A couple families with small kids, a big group of rowdy drinking teenage boys, and a few quieter older couples. With the river run-off still so high, only one pool was accessible, and it was ‘warm’ at best. Everyone
Continue reading Wedding Voyage 2011 — Lussier & White River (East Fork)
Thursday morning we got up, and aimed almost immediately for Ainsworth Hot Springs. These are the first commercial ones of our little hot springs tour, but still well worth it. If you’ve never stopped in here, it’s worth checking out at least once. There’s a little cave where the springs come out of the mountain, and you can walk through the hot, waist-deep water. There’s also a little cold-plunge pool, which I was even brave enough to use this time around! Twice! My dad used to do it, and tried to convince us, but one toe in the water was
Continue reading Wedding Voyage 2011 — Ainsworth & Goat River Canyon
Upon leaving Sparkling Hill (which was sad to leave — I’m sure we’ll be back for anniversaries down the road!), we headed back to Kathy’s & Dave’s to pick up our wedding gifts and leftover wedding booze. We also discovered around this point that Brian’s wallet seemed to be missing. I’d put the hotel on my credit card, so we hadn’t needed or thought about Brian’s wallet since some time before the wedding. We each searched the van, to no avail. We also looked around Kathy’s & Dave’s place — also no luck. I was sure it must just be
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We finally got out of town last night around rush hour. It would have been sooner, but we had some last minute stops — like buying $600 worth of booze for the wedding.
We got to Golden around 8:30, and met up with my bridesmaid Sabrina at Timmy’s. We decided to try to find one of the campsites in our ‘Camp Free in BC’ book. The only snag we hit was one measly closed off road, but we found a way around it and found ourselves a beautiful, perfect little site right next to Waitabit Creek. We cooked up some
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