Smithers, we will come back...someday!
Friday, August 28, 2015
Swim & Camp 6.21.15
It was a warm day, so we went to the beach at the park we were camping at and spent a good amount of time playing in the water. Jeralyn met some friends. After swimming, we went out for ice cream. Yum!
Most nights after we put the kids to bed, Quent and I would play cards. The kids did great sleeping in the tent. I was surprised at how well they did, honestly.
Foxes, Ants, and Silly Kids 6.21.15
Smithers, British Columbia was my favorite place to spend our time on our vacation.
We woke up to another beautiful day and prepared to go on another short walk/hike.
Jeralyn was building a "house" with our firewood.
Playing
The trail we walked on led us to Driftwood Canyon that has a lot of fossils in the rock: birds, bugs, fish, plants. These were some of the pieces found by other visitors. Jeralyn was looking at them.
We had lunch at the trail head. Here's the kids with Quent.
When I was sitting at the picnic table, I noticed ants scurrying about on the ground and I noticed it was like an ant "highway". So I followed where they were coming/going and they led me to their ginormous ant hill. I wish we would have put something in this photo for scale. I would say this one was about 2 feet high and 4 feet wide. And it's moving about with lots and lots and lots of ants. These were the ant hills the bears were interested in at the campground I mentioned in a previous post. I have never in my life seen anything like this. We found a lot of ant hills on our trip. And I think one time Jeralyn and Joshua got a little too close to an ant hill and there were ants crawling on them. Eeek!
And then we found the same group of foxes, but this time with their mother. Jeralyn had fun watching them play.
6.19.15
Again, I cannot remember the name of the city we were in at this campground, but it was here that I discovered gigantic ant hills. The campground host told us the bears were coming out to eat the ant larvae. We never did see any bears though.
The kids enjoyed playing at the park. We figured our very quickly in the beginning of our trip that campgrounds with playgrounds were a must for us and that Jeralyn preferred flush toilets over pit toilets. So we did our best to satisfy her. I don't blame her!
It started raining during the night and poor Quent had to pack up another wet tent.
6.18.15
Wow, I cannot remember where we were this day/night. We stayed at a campground/RV park that had a pool. It was hot when we arrived. So we quickly made dinner and then played in the pool...all before it rained. And then the rain wanted to be our friend for a couple of days. Eh.
Quent packed up the wet tent in the morning and we drove into Prince George to have breakfast. Afterward, we took the kids to this really cool Children's Museum. They had this really cool room where the kids played and played. It was like a glorified tot gym. They loved it! A lot of the locals had their children there and I met a nice lady who gave me her contact info in case if we are ever in the area again.
Robson/Jasper 6.17.15
We spent 2 nights near Mt. Robson. It was a nice campground and there was a playground nearby that the kids spent a lot of time at (which I realize we have no pictures of--oops!). They had an ampi-theater that Jeralyn liked to dance on the stage of. Silly kids!
Jeralyn is ready to take on another day!
Making lunch for our hike.
The start of our hike up a trail toward Robson.
We didn't get too far on the trail because it started to rain and then did not want to stop. We were prepared for the rain, but it just didn't seem worth getting wet and cold, so we turned around and drove toward Jasper instead. It was a beautiful drive.
On the way back the clouds parted and Robson unveiled some of it's glory. It's one of those mountains that you don't get the privilege of seeing the whole thing at once very often.
And then we found this cool bridge with some fast-moving water below.
Mt Robson 6.17.15
After seeing Mt Robson with my own eyes, these photos do not give it justice. The mountain is so spectacular that my mouth dropped open and all I could say was, "Oh, wow!" I had never heard of Mt Robson and I had no idea what it looked like--and it was impressive!
Quent got up in the wee hours of the morning to hike up the mountain and take pictures.
Random 6.16.15
It seems like there should be photos before and in between these two photos, but alas, this is what we have.
We stayed at a campground that was sort of advertised like a KOA campground (swimming pool, playground, showers, etc), but it honestly wasn't very impressive. But it fit our camping needs and we were able to get clean! Yay! And Jeralyn found some caterpillars to play with. Bonus!
Making packed lunches.
We stopped at this rest stop near a river/stream and ate our lunch. Lots of driving so it was nice to stop and let the kids run around.
Smithers June 14-15, 2015
I believe we stayed two nights at this particular campground (and then we came back about a week later and stayed two more). We camped EVERY night for 10 days! What was I thinking?!! Ha!
This particular night Jeralyn stayed up later with us and roasted marshmallows and made s'mores. She loved it!
And then in the morning we went to the playground that accompanied the campground so the kids could play before we set out on hours of being in the car. We tried to do most of our driving when Joshua was napping.
Not sure if Joshua enjoyed going down the slide this time.
If you look closely I believe he's closing his eyes.
Swinging with Daddy.
What Does the Fox Say? 6.14.15
We drove all the way to Smithers and camped. And then we drove through some beautiful country (seriously amazingly beautiful) and down some back roads to a trail. But before we got to the trail head, we came upon some foxes.
I believe there were 4 foxes. Super cute!
And then we found the Silver King Trail and hiked/walked for a bit. Here's the start of the trail.
We ate a picnic lunch and the kids were being cute (like they can help it, right?).
They had places to go, apparently. Ha!
This is one of those true moments of being in the woods...when you gotta go, you gotta go. Jeralyn is going to love this when she's older. Ha! She's such a good sport!
All done with our hike. Let the adventure continue!
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