Kalispell 
Well, we make it to Kalispell after some fun events on the road... Sara had just had her oil changed in her car but her car has been burning through oil for some reason. So, we were driving and after about 50 miles the oil light comes on. This is at about 4:30am in the pouring rain.. of course. So, they look at the dipstick as best they could using the headlight and it looks like it's low, so they put a quart in. Well, after 20 more miles, the oil light comes on again. So we get to the next exit and look at it, and the oil looks actually too full... Anyway, it turned out that it probably wasn't low the first time, but they couldn't really tell in the dark/rain. We just dealt with seeing the oil light flash, flicker or stay on steady for most of the trip. Sara and I did a little shopping yesterday so she took her car in to the Honda dealer and it turned out that the sender that tells the light to go on, was bad. She had just had that replaced in April, so they replaced it for free. Yay.
Well, now Joe and I are in Kalispell, back at Pat and Nancy's and we'll see what we do from here. :)

-Miranda

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On the Road Again 
So, we left 8am Tuesday morning for the Twin Cities and had an 8 hour lay over down there. Then, we got on the bus to Billings, MT. We arrived here at 11:30am Wed. We are now in Billings at Joe's sister's (Sara) place where we will nap and such until we leave to go to Kalispell at 2am tonight. :) How exciting. Sara works until 2, hence the leaving in the middle of the night.
We're not really sure what's going on after that....

-Miranda

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Lake Louise 
Joe captured the mouse! We let him go into the woods as we were leaving the campground. We continued our journey down highway 1A stopping at info spots along the way. We pulled off at a picnic area and there was an old road blocked off from vehicle traffic that we biked down. Once in Lake Louise we biked the Bow River loop. Very nice trail and neat river. We decided to head up to see Lake Louise an almost killed the Rv on the way up. We biked around up there a little but there were way too many people so we went down the hill a little ways to the Continental Divide. The continuation of highway 1A was right there, but apparenlty now closed to vehicles, so we road our bikes down it a little ways. When we were getting gas a lady parked her short bus too close to the gas pump. Upon driving away she busted the pump. Huh.
Too many people in Lake Louise, so we left and headed for Yoho National Park. We stayed at Monarch Campground and biked up Yoho Valley Road (safer than trying to take RV). We saw where two rivers that are different colors come together. Very neat. Coming down the hill was super fun! :)
-Miranda


The mouse.

Picutre of us in front of the coming together of the two rivers.

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Last Day in Dino Park 
Today we stayed inside a lot again. Very hot. I did a lab tour and learned some about how they prepare the fossils for transport and what they do to display them in museums. Pretty neat. Joe found a dinosaur bone and reported it.
We left with the intent to head to Calgary and stay at a Walmart tonight, but Calgary was not very RV friendly. Very cramped feeling and the only Walmart we could find easily was in a mall and said no overnight parking. We decided just to leave. We ended up driving all the way to Banff and staying in Two-Jack Campground.
-Miranda

I found a Dino Bone!!! Whooo hoo! :)
-Joe


Joe's dino bone.

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Dinosaur Provincial Park 
We stopped at an awesome City Water park in medicine hat. It was only $6 admission!
Hot showers, rope swing, water slide, etc.. good fun. Afterwords we ventured off to the Dinosoar Park.
Jaw dropping terrain.. You drive through endless farmland, and then suddenly hit this!
we did a little hiking and saw some neat displays of dinosaur bones, still in the ground. We also saw an old quarry site.
-Joe


The trail near our campsite leading up to the visitor center.

Us during our eveningish hike.

View when first entering park (click on picture for full size).

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