This morning we woke up, packed up, and headed out! The next and final stop for our trip is the area around Banff Alberta Canada. We have heard a lot of horror stories from people who have previously traveled with their campers through Canadian Customs and I must say we were all a little worried about how the experience would go. One of the camp hosts at our campground in Yellowstone said that when she and her husband crossed the border they had to stand outside while the patrol officers went through the camper and they could hear cupboards and drawers opening and closing. We pulled up to the customs gate with mom and dad ahead of us. It was only a matter of minutes when mom and dad pulled through and radioed to us that they were done. We proceeded up to the gate and began to answer several questions about where we were coming from, where we were going, how much alcohol we had with us, how many and what type of weapons we have on board, and, then the question that I thought was going to do us in, they asked us if we had any maze or pepper spray. I told him that I had bear spray in my hiking bag and he said have a nice trip as he handed me our passports! Wow, that was easy!!! Only a few miles from customs the view changed drastically. We entered fields of endless yellow; it was a crop called “rape” that has various uses, a big one being canola oil. We continued our travels and about six hours later we arrived in Canmore, Alberta. After we got all set up in the Spring Creek Campground we all jumped in the truck and drove about thirty minutes to Banff. Once we got to Banff we had dinner on the roof of a three story building. I had an amazing buffalo burger that hit the spot after driving all day. After dinner we walked through the shops for a while and listened to three Canadian Rangers sing a song about the difference between Ravens and Crows… you had to be there! We finished off our first night in Canada with a marshmallow around a fire at our camper and then we all called it a night. Tomorrow we are going to drive to Lake Louise.
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