Beautiful! Gorgeous! Wish you were here...

This was our view on the first morning in Canmore and to say our reaction was stunned is an understatement. Rachel has never been west of Sarnia and while I've been in the Rockies before, it was on the western side and not quite so surrounded!

We spent most of the first day exploring Lake Louise which has vistas that are barfingly breathtaking. 

While the husbands were shopping for booze and tacky souvenirs, Rachel and Veronica stayed in the car. They were laughing at a particularly fat crow that was aggressively following pedestrians in pursuit of food but the crow obviously heard them because he then decided to perch on the passenger side mirror and tap on the window. Which Rachel found hilarious but Veronica did not.

Rachel rolled up the window but Veronica wanted to drive away. Rachel wanted to wait until the husbands came back from shopping to see how they handled a menacing crow but Veronica chickened out and drove around to a different spot. The crow, however, was not to be so easily dissuaded. He followed the car from spot to spot tormenting Veronica at every turn, much to Rachel's delight. It was quite the afternoon's entertainment.