We made it folks!
We drove a total of 37 hours and made it to the campground in Bow Valley Provincial Park. We’ll be using this campground as a base camp for the next week as we travel around to Banff National Park.
After a celebratory beer, we tried deploying the Zip Dee awning with a little too much force and ended up bending one of the awning arms… Oopsie. The things we do for shade!
Luckily our friends, Danielle and Bill, had just arrived witness the mayhem.
We knew we either had to bend it back (unlikely) OR saw a piece of the arm off so that we could at the very least put it away.
After about 30 minutes of problem-solving and frustration, we ventured into Canmore to grab dinner at the Grizzly Paw Brewery. We were put on the waitlist and decided to kill time at this fun little bar next door called Where the Buffalo Roam – a Hunter S. Thompson themed bar. Great drinks and hilarious server – I guess it’s what you’d expect from a Hunter S. Thompson themed bar. As if things couldn’t get any better, Jay spotted a double rainbow from where we were seated. After which the entire street turned into “Double Rainbow mania” (as Jay put it). People running out into the street snapping photos on their iPhones. People yelling out of car windows, “It’s a DOUBLE RAINBOW”.
I was able to snap a shot myself before one of the rainbows completely faded away.
We like to think it was a good sign – seeing as tomorrow we’ll be scoping out locations for our emotional vow exhange.
Until tomorrow!