Drive On!

This morning started with a bang! The Kyles left us a bottle of sparking apple/pear something or other in our room. While romantic, it brought on a terrible case of the burps! Tim and Laura both rattled the rafters. After a yummy breakfast, We packed up and jumped in the car. The Kyles waved goodbye as we headed towards our next adventure. We stopped for lunch at a Thai restaurant recommended by one of Laura's friends and found the food to be delicious! Laura's dad will be very jealous to hear that we shared a bowl of coconut ice cream with frozen jackfruit and sweet corn for dessert. It was almost gone before we remembered to take a picture!

We'd been searching for a wireless Internet connection the day before without any luck, so we were excited to share some bandwidth with some unsuspecting person while parked on Cedar St. On the road again, we realized it might be advantageous to buy a map. The gas station had no maps, but a friendly local sent us in the direction of the nearest town...Tim thought he said "Wannashukagrunyon" or something like that!!
We reached our destination and set up camp beside a lake named after the Indian word for "moose". We found ourselves in the midst of a thunderstorm with lightning splitting the sky above the jagged mountain peaks. What better time to warm up in a natural, uncommercialized hotspring nestled alongside a glacier-fed river? Laura got warm faster than Tim and beat him to a dip in the icy river - aaaah!!