Canada: Day Six - Back to Vancouver

Again, we had a lot of driving to do today, to be back in Vancouver for the evening. Driving needs Calories, so before we left Jasper we went into Smitty's and I had some waffles and coffee. Good stuff. I am starting to get the hang of the way tipping works by this stage, and appreciate the service you get because of it. I still don't like the system though!

After some uneventful driving we reached the border back to British Columbia. Here's me!:



Adjusting our clocks for the new timezone, we continued onward.

Soon we arrived at Valemount, home of Christine's Great Aunt Louise. After a friendly greeting we were invited in for Gingernut cookies. I was surprised to see that Great Aunt Louise had her own Roomba, and she set it operating on the carpet for a few minutes for our amusement.

Conscious of the time constraints, we soon headed off again. Places to eat were few and far between on this stretch of road, so we had to settle on the place we found in Clearwater. The meal was average, though I got to try Poutine.

Entertainment at this meal was provided by the white trash in the next booth, who did their best to treat their children badly and be generally ignorant. The youngest child got his head conked quite badly by the mother who yanked him away from a picture he just wanted to look at. During the tears he was repeating over and over "bad mommy, bad mommy". Couldn't agree more.

Then it was just back to the driving grind, eventually we made it back to 'civilised parts'. Stopping at White Spot for dinner (burgers) we arrived back in time to watch Napoleon Dynamite (awesome) before retiring for the night.