Wedding Voyage 2011 - Ainsworth & Goat River Canyon

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

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Wedding Voyage 2011 - Halfway & Nelson

Wednes­day morn­ing, we had break­fast by a crash­ing road­side water­fall — scram­bled eggs and gar­lic pan-fried pota­toes.  A few peo­ple, see­ing the sign in our back win­dow, stopped to congratulate us.

After break­fast and cof­fee, we headed on to Halfway hot springs, which we’d never pre­vi­ously been to.  While wan­der­ing around try­ing to locate the path “down”, we said hello to a cou­ple ran­dom hip­pies — and were sur­prised to real­ize we knew these hip­pies.  It was Tarzie, and her hus­band and baby.  I’ve known Tarzie for years through the Cal­gary Burner com­mu­nity!  An awe­some sur­prise to find them by

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