We awoke before eight and took a look outside to see what we had in store for the day. The parking lot that had been full of firefighters last night was empty except for two cars – one being mine. I walked next door to Timmy’s for our morning coffee, while Mum got out our leftovers for breakfast. We ate quickly and again headed north up the highway.
Our first stop was the entrance to Mount Robson Park. Thankfully, the mountain was visible and as gorgeous as I remembered her to be when I camped there with my daughter on our trip. For those who don’t know, Mount Robson is the highest point in the Canadian Rockies and is part of the Rainbow Range. We continued on to the Visitor Centre of the park and I took some more pictures of both Mount Robson and Cinnamon Peak.
Next on our route was Jasper National Park. I didn’t bother getting a park pass as we were just passing through this year – I figured I would be able to quickly pullover and take pictures of any wildlife we saw without getting caught by park staff. I’m not sure if was bad karma for not getting a pass, or just bad luck but we saw no wildlife. Well, unless you consider the two ravens that we saw next to the road. Hopefully this means that we are in store for a lot of wildlife in the prairies.
The drive from the eastern edge of the park, which also is the end of the mountains, to Edmonton was uneventful. We stopped in Hinton for coffee and a snack at Timmy’s and then for gas in Edson. Other than that, we just drove.
We arrived in Edmonton just before 5, but luckily were going the opposite way of the rush hour traffic. Yet again, there was construction near our hotel, but it IS summer and it IS a big city – we really can’t expect much else.
We looked at our choices for dinner and decided on Urban Diner, which was the first restaurant in Edmonton to be featured on You Gotta Eat Here. Mum and I both started with the Pea Soup. It wasn’t French-Canadian style, but man it was good – and I don’t like peas. Mum followed with the Bruschetta and I had a Porchetta sandwich that was topped with arugula, havarti and truffle aioli. Tonight was a definite “outside the box” experience for me as I am also not a huge fan of arugula and I definitely don’t like truffles. I found it absolutely divine and I am so glad I went outside my comfort zone.
After dinner, we headed back to the hotel and watched So You Think You Can Dance before Mum went to bed and I started working on my blog.
As soon as I post, I will be hitting the hay. Tomorrow we are off to Saskatoon. I have never been, so I am quite excited.
Thank you for sharing our adventure and I will talk to you tomorrow.
L
