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(Sophie) - We are now in Jasper, which is a small town in the Canadian Rockies. There are loads of shops and loads of trains. I counted one train that had 227 carriages! Most of the trains are freight trains however I did see the Rocky Mountaineer train which carries people. This morning we woke up to our first wet day, but it didn't matter as we were going water rafting any way and were bound to get wet.
We were taken about 20 minutes out of the town to the Athabasca River where we got on the raft. As it was raining we had to wear yellow ponchos so we all looked like bananas. We had to sit on the sides of the inflatable raft which was bright orange.
Our guide was called Brad and he kept rowing us into the rapids so we got wet. We had to hold on tight. Near the end of the trip after the rapids, Brad said I could have a go at rowing the raft, but we managed to get stuck on the rocks so Brad had to jump out of the raft and push us away. It was awesome.
After the rafting we headed to the Jasper sky tram which took us up Whistlers mountain (nothing to do with Whistler!). We went right up into the clouds and I could even touch them. We saw a tiny animal called a Pika - it had round ears like a mouse and no tail. This inspired the pokemon character Pikachu. We didn't stay up the mountain that long as there was a storm coming in and we didn't want to get stuck up there as they close the sky tram as storms pass over.
(Belle) - We went water rafting today. It was fun going through the rapids but I didn't get as wet as I had hoped, boo hoo! Brad asked if someone would like to help him row the raft and I jumped up straight away and helped him first. That was really good. I kept getting splashed when rowing.
We then went up a mountain on the sky tram. We couldn't go up straight away as there was a storm over head so while we were waiting we had hot chocolate and looked around the shop. Up the mountain the clouds were really close.
Back down in the town we went for dinner and I had delicious dry ribs and Sophie had Yam fries. For pudding we both had chocolate sticky toffee pudding with a candy snap basket and ice cream - yum, yum, yum, yum, yum! Afterwards we went shopping until 10-o-clock! There were so many amazing things in the shops. I bought a loom for my loom bands (a lot cheaper than in England) and a big cuddly caterpillar puff ball - daddy doesn't know how we will get it home!
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Emma Riding the rapids sounds great fun!