LAKE LOUISE CANADA

       Day at Lake Louise with our friends Val & Linda

                        To my SURPRISE the lake was FROZEN!!!!

                                        Our friends Val & Linda!!
                                         He is SOOOO excited to see us!!

Two chicks looking for TROUBLE

                                   Lake Louise Lodge

AWESOME!!

                           Clouds in the mountains.What a beautiful day!

 

We're leaving now towards ALASKA. We plan a few stops along the way!

BANAFF NATIONAL PARK CANADA

Next Stop... CANADA
AGAIN we stopped to visit friends from CA. We spent a day with Bev & Elaine and they took us to see Banaff.
 Beautiful!!!

Waterfall in town of Banaff

 Beautiful view of the Bow River

We're a little cold!!! Not used to that!!!

                           Sidewalk manhole

                     View looking down the village

Snow in the mountains

WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS MT

                                        
Again we stopped and visited friends from CA, Tim & Miriam!! They live in beautiful BLUE SKY MT!
They own a Pizza/Movie theatre in town and we got to work at it!!! We had so much FUN!!!!



Our friends Tim & Miriam in White Sulphur Springs

Here we are going to work at Stageline Pizza at the Strand Theatre

May I take your order????

Dan in his glory....in the KITCHEN!!  I'm in my glory because of Pizza!!!

                                Order in! Be ready in 15 minutes!!

Movie theatre where you can sit down enjoy your pizza AND watch a movie!!

                               Main Street USA

SALT LAKE CITY UTAH

Next stop.. Mormon Country Salt Lake City UT. We stopped to visit more park friends Ted & Elaine!! Had a great time! Ted's son Mike made some special home brew just for Dan!!! Oh Boy!!!
They took us to the World's First Open Pit  copper mine and Man's Largest Excavation! Awesome!! Then an afternoon at the Mormon Temple Square. There was few missionaries that tried to convert Dan BUT he said ONE wife was ENOUGH!!


                  Information on the Haulage Truck Tires

                         Size of the tire compared to us!

                                          View into the open pit

                                         Trucks look like tonka toys!

Spending time with our friends Ted & Elaine at the Temple Square

Salt Lake Temple
Built by Mormon pioneers between 1853 & 1893

Scale model of the inside of the Temple. This Temple is not open to the public! You are only allowed in on special ordinances. We are not special!

   BUT we are allowed into this Steak House that Ted & Elaine treat us to!!

  View of the inside. It was so cool sitting in the cover wagons to dine & wine!

Ted dared Dan to eat this 2 pound Porterhouse!!

CAN HE DO IT???????

                                            
                                            YES!!!!!!!

TWIN FALLS IDAHO

We continue our Journey with a stop in Twin Falls ID. We visited with   T & Mary,  friends from our park in CA. They took us to the Perrine Bridge to see the Tandem BASE ( Building, Atenna, Span, Earth)  jumpers. The 486 foot drop to the floor of the Snake River Canyon!! Year round, people come from all over the world to jump from the only bridge in United States that doesn't require a permit.


                                                           Perrine Bridge

Jumper climbs over the railing to get ready to jump!

                                There he GOES!!!!

WOW!!!

They are not allow to land in the river

CREATURES & CRITTERS ON OUR JOURNEY

Dan wanted me to post a blog on these creatures & critters for his male buddies!
                                         Here we go!!!


                                                                        Elk

                                                                       Ravens

                                                                      Mule Deer

Standing Squirrel

Flying Condor

Another Squirrel

Lizard

Spider on the men's restroom wall. Dan snap this picture while peeing. Want talent!!

                                                     Herd of sheep where we camped

                                                            That's alot of Sheep!!!

Soon it will be grizzly bears, soaring eagles, salmon, halibut!!!!

ZION CANYON NATIONAL PARK

Another park another place in Paradise! The Grand Canyon & Bryce Canyon you were at the top looking down but the Zion you're at the bottom looking up!!! The first canyons Dan & I would walk to a lookout point and be out of breathe!!! We finally realize it was because of the elevation average 7000 ft so Zion was a breeze!!

                                  Zion National Park established Nov. 19, 1919
                                                           146,592 acres

    Sheer cliffs dropping 3000 ft. Nineteenth century Mormon pioneers saw these      

                                  sculpured rocks as the "natural temples of God".

We took a hike(easy!!) to the Weeping Rock. The trailhead took us behind a curtain of water showering from the ceiling of an alcove. It felt pretty good since we got overheated from our hike!!

As you can see we have taken on rock climbing.

 That's me on top and Dan is trailing me!!!!NOT!!!!

Looking out from the Zion Lodge

Need to put your neck all the way back to see the top

Kolob Canyons on the north end of the Zions

                     Sheer cliffs of pale red sandstone lift more than 2000 ft into the blue sky.

                                            It's time to move on to Salt Lake City!!