Ridiculous Scenery

We've spent the last two days exploring Banff and Jasper National Parks. I think Jasper is my favourite. We took the kids onto the Athabasca Glacier this morning, and they stood on their first glacier. Andy and Kai ate some glacier, too. I went on an amazing 30 km. bike ride from Banff to Lake Louise. Probably the prettiest bike ride I will ever go on. Lake Louise was a bit of a bust because it was very

 crowded when we went and the time of day made it really difficult to get a good photo. However, then we stopped at Peyto Lake and Glacier, and got some amazing photos of an equally beautiful, and much less crowded, lake. Soren was thrilled that we finally got to see some wildlife (elk and mountain goats), because before that all he had seen was 'oak poo' (elk poo). Andy went for the 'biggest downhill of his life' mountain bike ride today, so he was pretty stoked about that. He is like a kid in a candy store in the mountains. He just has this lit-up, 'now I'm really living' look on his face. Right now we are in Hinton, AB, headed to Grande Prairie for the night. I had my first mini-meltdown this afternoon ...because I am having a hard time coping with all the mess in the R.V. I don't cope well with messy places, and it is just impossible to keep clean with 6 people in such a tight space. But, I reminded myself that it is a small sacrifice to make, when you consider the awesome stuff we've seen and done in the last week and a half. Hopefully we will get somewhere where I will have a good wireless connection so I can upload the photos we've taken. It has been insanely beautiful, so it is hard to stop yourself from taking more and more pictures. How many pictures of beautiful scenery are too many?
Happy Labour Day everyone!