Day 17

Day 17. Really? 17 days on the road with this crew? Perhaps that explains the edgy feeling everyone is experiencing. Even Evan sounds like he's loosing it a times. I think he's learned how to do random screams on this trip. He's now quite good at it! We were up and on the road by 10 and off to Revelstoke to visit with July. A poor continental breakfast at the motel, a huge lineup at Tim Horton's and a McDonalds so full in Revelstoke that it was standing room only just about put Dora over the edge. It's a good thing it started to rain while we were eating outside. It was just enough crazy to make her start laughing. Any less and someone was gonna die! July showed up while we were all smiling and we had a nice visit. She's almost ready to pop (baby boy for those who don't know) and looks great and happy. Still have yet to meet Ben, her husband. After the short visit it was back to the road. The rest of the drive was going fine until we hit the dreaded summer word "construction". Outside of Banff we hit a standstill with traffic. Logan was asleep, but Evan had a meltdown before we were through.
We pulled into Canmore for supper since it was getting quite late. Boston Pizza, 25 minute wait, Sage Bistro, too pricey, Gasthaus, looked empty and had a kids menu. Perfect, until we found out they were short staffed. Of course, we found out they were short staffed from this table of 4 near us. I don't know if they were actually that pretentious or just trying to, but all the complaining sure made for a good dinner show! It took awhile for the food to arrive, but when it did it was great. I had a strip loin steak sandwich for 10 bucks and Logans veggies were maple glazed carrots and butter nut squash. Yum!
We were back on the road and Evan was losing it again. This time, staying awake. He was falling asleep with the windows down and me holding his eyes open. We pulled into Lac Des Arcs campground to find out it was reservation only, you had to book online. With the campground almost deserted, we said whatever and setup for the night. Finally, back in Alberta !
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