Wednesday, June 4 - Day 8

This is Linda writing this evening. We did laundry this morning and didn't leave Hinton until almost noon so we only traveled to Grand Prairie, Alberta today. We had a late lunch at a really neat bistro in Grand Cache and the owner/chef gave us homemade ice cream and samples of two of his desserts after we ate. Phyllis and Ila each had soup and sandwich and they say they were very good. I had a taco salad and I have never had one like it. It was on a tortilla and had tomatoe slices and cucumber slices around the edge of it with some sort of clear sauce on it.
Then there was lettuce with strips of turkey with cheese melted on it. It was served with salsa and sour cream. The soup the others had was turkey corn chowder and they had grilled ham and cheese sandwiches. Then the chef decided we should have some cookies to take along so he gave us each 2 of his chocolate chip cookies. We haven't tried them yet, but they look very yummy! It was almost time for them to close, so we suspect he was getting rid of the cookies to have fresh for tomorrow.

Along the way we had to stop and take a picture of a moose grazing along the road in the ditch. We also saw more deer. They aren't nearly as pretty as our white tail deer. The elk aren't very good looking now either. We also saw more of them today. The scenery is really gorgeous here. We say many signs to watch for logging trucks today and actually only saw one. They must all be hiding.

I must add this to my writing for today. The glacier was awesome yesterday. If anyone had told me even a year ago that I would walk on a glacier in my lifetime I wouldn't have believed it. It was so neat to be able to see it up so closely and to walk on it and to reach down and touch it. I picked up some of it and it was sort of like slush. The water running off that particular ice field runs into the Atlantic, Pacific, and Arctic oceans. The water on the glacier was extremely clear and pure looking. They have some dammed up for the ice busses to drive through to clean their tires so that they don't get the glacier dirty. There are 23 of these busses and 22 of them are where we were yesterday. The other is owned by the US government and is used in the Antartic. Tires for them cost $5000@ and the busses are worth $1,000,000 each. I guess I will long be amazed that God would allow me to have this experience. I used the term awesome to describe it, and that is truly the term that should be used to describe it. That isn't a term that I tend to use like some younger people. It was really special to me.

Have a good day and Phyllis will write tomorrow.