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Mel's Overseas Trip
Hi All
Well Lucy and I have just resurafced from a very wild wilerness experience and we are now back in civilisation. We have been on a tour of the Rocky Mountains and we have been roughing it.
To start the trip we slept in after the alarm went off and woke up at 7 am and had to be downtown for the tour at 7:45 am, so we didn't shower and threw whatever in our bags and rushed to the pick up point. We made it OK however only to discover that for the next 2 days we would be staying in rustic hostels. That means no showers, no running water, no electricity and drop loo's.
So we were a little on the nose for the next 3 days. For girls that need a hair straightener, no electricity was devastating!!! And drop loo's stink sooooo much!!
We couldn't even go in the creek as the water is feed from glaciers so it is super cold!!! Couldn't even brush our teeth in there, that's how environmental it was!!! A little shocking.
We got to have a camp fire and try SMORES, which is 2 gram crackers with a toated mashmellow and chocolate in between, very nice. ( Called SMORES, cause you always want some MORE)
We have seen Elk, mountain goats, a wolf, beavers and heaps of cheeky squirrels. Let me tell you the story of the mountain goats.
We were having lunch quietly near a waterfall when we saw the goats ( Huge big horned animals) running down the road and we were looking at the tourists standing around and thinking it was a little dangerous but lucky we were up high on a hill. Not for long, these goats sprinted across the road and up the hill, well you should have seen Lucy and I find the closest tree, we freaked out, but we survived!!
So now we are in Banff, showered and with electricity and loo's that flush, all is great!!
The Rocky Mountains are purely spectacular, check out the photos and you will see what I mean. Postcard perfect.
Got to walk on a glacier at Columbia Icefields. Very cool, literally!
Thanks for the messages. All my love. I miss you all heaps.
Work hard at dancing!
Love
Mel xoxoxo
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