Canada

Boys by the river near "old faithful"
















Old faithful- we picked a bad spot to watch - we saw mostly steam. but it was cool, nevertheless
















Castle geyser steaming up a storm.
















One of the cool coloured pools. more like a hot tub- a REALLY hot tub. 95C- almost boiling!






We made it safely a few days ago here to Saskatchewan!! Praise God!

Our drive up was incredible- as usual! I love the drive north through mountains, deserts and cities. I've been wanting to go to Yellowstone Park the last few times we've been driving through, but the timing never worked out. This time, we made it work. It was a really cool place! Lots of forests and mountains interspersed with out of this world-like bubbling, hissing and exploding cones of steam, hot water and mud! Probably the coolest part was the last part through the park where you come alongside of a hill that is just steaming at several spots- it looks like some sort of a moonscape or something. It was all pretty cool.

That night we showed up in Harlowton, MT a little town with 2 motels. the first was full and the guy said the other was full too. The problem was that it was 9pm at night, and the next town 1 hour north had all full motels as well. so if we didn't stay here, we were driving almost 3 hours to Malta, hoping that there were motels open there!

Shar suggested we try the 2nd motel in harlowton and it turned out they had 1 room left- single bed mthough- so the boys slept on the leaky air mattress we bought! It was tiny and kinda stinky- but better than sleeping in the car on the side of the road!

Supper that night was at a roadhouse kinda place. we got in 5 minutes before the kitchen closed at 9:30. It was the best meal we had on the trip- fresh salads, good grilled chicken sandwich and real- homemade burgers for the boys. Beats Wendy's by 1000 miles!

I've booked a few places to stay in the past on priceline or hotwire. They are my new favourite travel websites. Our first night we stayed in Vegas and we got a 4-Star hotel south of town with a HUGE pool and hottub and it was the cheapest accomodations we had! The room was huge with a massive flat screen TV, the pool was open all night and by the time we were done swimming and needed a snack- we went to a restaurant in the hotel that had $2.45 ham and eggs and pancakes. We paid $50.00 totla for the room.

The next night we were in Idaho falls and there were no priceline rooms available there. so we took a little motel room for $70.00. The hallways were filthy, the pool was old and the edges were falling apart-- the room was stinky- but it was our only option! We couldn't believe we paid $20.00 more for it than the fancy place we were in the night before!

So far things are going well here. We are visiting friend in Mossbank, SK. It is a nice break before we go full tilt for a month of camps! The town here has an outdoor pool- so we purchased a week pass for the boys and they'l be in it all afternoon- home for supper then back out till 9 every day we're here.

Today Shar has gone out with Tina and abigail to MooseJaw for a girls day out and I'm helping Michael put up a hanging ceiling in their basement.

Weather is nice- 33C yesterday ad sunny and at noon it is 26C today.

Gotta go hang a ceiling.,....