Holidays begin

School's out!

A couple of ageing penguins standing around on several hundred feet of slowly moving ice.

Given that we missed our Australian summer holidays by coming to Canada we feel ready for a holiday. George's tonsils (or at least the holes where George's tonsils used to be) appear to have healed well. We're now priming ourselves for Europe.

We've just returned from 5 wonderful days at Patricia Lake, Jasper with Janet, Peter and boys. Weather was lovely. Scenery astounding. There is so much to do and we came away feeling happy that we struck the balance between exercise, food, relax, fun and tourist trail.

Golfed at Jasper Park Lodge. Rafted down the Athabasca River, slid on the Athabasca Glacier, leaped into Horseshoe Lake, BBQ'd at Honeymoon Lake, trammed up Whistler Mountain and puffed our way to the top. Canoed on Patricia Lake, strolled the Maligne Canyon.

Accommodation perfect.

Patricia Lake.

The Ice Beavers at work stemming the effects of global warming by building a small ice dam on the glacier. A butterfly flaps its wings in the Amazon resulting in a storm in the French Alps. An Ice Beaver stems the flow of water off the Athabasca Glacier just for a second resulting in...

Given the general frenzy of digital camera activity demonstrated by your regular tourist I thought it would be appropriate to take a photo of Janet taking a photo of this Japanese family.

We're still looking for the guy who took a photo of me, taking a photo of Janet, taking a photo of the Japanese family.