Camping in B.C.

We went camping in Radium Hot Springs in B.C. I don’t have as many pictures as I would have liked but what is important is that we had fun. Our campsite was in a valley and we were right next to a river. I mean right next to it. I was thinking that we would have nice soothing white noise from the water but it was like raging rapids. I was fine, Jeff however, needed ear plugs to sleep. On Saturday morning we went to Fairmont Hot Springs, per the suggestion of a random person that I met at swim lessons a few days before we left. I ask everyone I meet up here where they like to camp. Anyway Fairmont was awesome. It is a huge pool that is built around the springs. Apparently there are some natural ones that you can go sit in up somewhere in the mountains but these were nice because they had showers and such. We were there for 2 hours and then went for a late lunch and then went back for another few hours. The kids had a blast. The top picture is of Luke determining that he likes roasted mini donuts. The second is a picture of a park that we thought would be nice to go to on our way out of town on Sunday but it turned out to be pretty gross. Apparently a lot of animals have a favourite potty and that is this park. Gross. But there were people in the water and playing in the sand. Ew. We will definitely go back to Fairmont though and we got lucky because the following weekend they had a mudslide and there has been a massive clean up since then.

Summer hike

We had a 3 day weekend in July and decided to go take a hike. We went out to Johnston Canyon which we had heard from several sources as a really nice hike. Sources proved true. The kids did well, for the most part until it started raining on us. We took shelter in a restaurant after we finished our hike and the food was surprisingly good (especially the nachos, go figure) and not too pricey. At the end of the trail you are treated to a beautiful waterfall and this is after walking along the rock face following a river. It was beautiful.