Day 6 - July 16, 2010 11:30 PM

July 15, 2010
11:30 PM

We woke up in Lake Louise and packed the car up for the travel day to Revelstoke by 9:00 AM. We then went in search of breakfast. We have decided that if someone wants to open a business in Lake Louise it could be a breakfast place as the only quick one had a very large line up.

We ended going back to our hotel and eating at the breakfast buffet, kind of pricy like most things in Lake Louise. During breakfast P seemed to attract the attentions of a couple of our overly attentive servers. We are not sure what the female's name was, but Claude seem to be quite intrigued with P's muscle shirt. The fact that Claude is probably in his early 60s made it even more uncomfortable for P. This of course has been cause for teasing for the rest of the day.

Off to book horseback riding activities and tried 2 different stables. All rides were booked up, so we will have to leave this for later in the trip.
Next, we went in search of Lake Louise to verified that it is the most picturesque lake any of us have seen. I for one was surprised by the relative small size of the lake. The lake was framed by 3 mountains with the middle one having the top covered in snow.

We then went through the famous Fairmont hotel on the shores of Lake Louise. D, P B and S snuck up to the 5th floor and gave themselves an unguided and unofficial tour of one of the rooms. J and I chickened out and waited downstairs. Apparently the rooms were huge and the view was of course spectacular.

Off to Moraine Lake, the lake pictured on the back of the 20 dollar bill. The boys did lots of rock climbing while D and I walked along the shore. This lake has amazingly blue water and is framed by 6 or 8 mountains.

Back to Lake Louise for a tank of gas in preparation for the 4 hour trip to Revelstoke BC. We started out about 3:00 PM. B began the driving and about an hour in, D took over. The road was once again a spectacular view. There were many interesting things along the way with the tunnels cut through the mountain, the runaway roads for trucks and the nets to catch falling rocks being just a few. Many pictures of scenery during this portion of the trip were taken.

About 20 or 25 KM from Revelstoke we made a quick stop to see giant cedar trees. The Weather had warmed up to 27 C by this point and the walk through the cedars was extremely humid. The .5 KM walk to see the giant cedars was great. Some of the trees were over 400 years old and more than 6 people with arms out stretched in circumference.

We arrived in Revelstoke and found our hotel, a far cry from the luxury of the day before. It looks like this hotel does most of its business in the winter as there is only 1 other group staying here besides us.

We got set up and used the water park passes which came with the room. This was an indoor pool elsewhere in the town which included a Lazy River type whirlpool, a pool suitable for diving. Everyone had a great time and burned off some energy during the 2 hours we were there.

We stopped at a pharmacy to pick up some stuff for S’’s skin problem. We then went for supper at Bad Paul's a restaurant which had a live band playing. The food was excellent.

Back to the room to organize everyone into bed. Tomorrow we will leave Revelstoke early to make our way to Summerland and see what we can see along the way.