The next morning we packed up and headed out. My stomach was feeling a little better so I was happy about that but I was disappointed to hear that we wouldn't actually be staying in Alberta at all today, but instead would be driving right through and straight to British Columbia. That was OK though because at least the plan was to stop in Alberta on the way back. I was still looking forward to seeing the mountains and wondered if you could see them off in the distance before you actually got to them.
Both Saskatchewan and Alberta had fields of wind turbines in them.
Both Saskatchewan and Alberta had fields of wind turbines in them.
The terrain started to go from flat farm fields to larger rolling hills in the distance at first.
Soon the rolling hills got closer and larger. Still looks something like southern Ontario though. Will we ever see mountains or is this just a bedtime story someone made up?
Finally the hills started to look like mountains.
But these mountains did not compare to the British Columbia mountains that eventually could be seen in the distance.
By the time we passed through and made it to British Columbia I was feeling pretty sick and was having a difficult time enjoying the scenery. My stomach felt like someone poured hot coals in it and I was feeling pretty lethargic.
We were supposed to have camped in BC at the Sparwood Provincial Park, unfortunately when we arrived there the entire campground was full, including the over flow area. Apparently they had been booked up since Wednesday. Lesson learned... don't try to go camping in BC without a reservation on a Friday evening. We went to the nearest town of Fernie in hopes of getting a hotel room instead. No such luck. Everywhere we went we were met with "sorry, we are all booked up". We had no choice but to press on to the next town.
My brother finally was able to call ahead and book a hotel room in the town of Cranbrook. By this time I was pretty sick. My stomach pains went to being severe enough to cause me to want to vomit. I would be so happy just to get into a room and lie down. We got two adjoining rooms but we had wanted a third one for my parents (for an additional fee we would be allowed to have the dog in the room with us) . However, we were told the same line we had been hearing for hours now "sorry, we are all booked up". So my mother decided to stay in the RV with the dog while my daughter shared a bed with me and my dad had the other bed in the room and my brother and his girlfriend were in the next room.
As soon as we got to the rooms I headed to the bathroom to throw up. I was in there for only about a minute when the power went out in the room. So there I was in a windowless room in the pitch black, sicker than a dog. But I didn't care. I just stayed put. The power came back on but then it went off again only a couple minutes later. Eventually we had to switch rooms, which was good but also made us angry because we had been told that there were no more rooms. Strange that they could come up with not just one room at a moments notice, but they could actually come up with two! Yeah right "we're booked". my butt!!
In the new rooms everyone finally went to sleep, exhausted from way more travelling than we had intended to do that day. Everyone but me that is. I was up in pain pretty much all night long. It was a long night.
We were supposed to have camped in BC at the Sparwood Provincial Park, unfortunately when we arrived there the entire campground was full, including the over flow area. Apparently they had been booked up since Wednesday. Lesson learned... don't try to go camping in BC without a reservation on a Friday evening. We went to the nearest town of Fernie in hopes of getting a hotel room instead. No such luck. Everywhere we went we were met with "sorry, we are all booked up". We had no choice but to press on to the next town.
My brother finally was able to call ahead and book a hotel room in the town of Cranbrook. By this time I was pretty sick. My stomach pains went to being severe enough to cause me to want to vomit. I would be so happy just to get into a room and lie down. We got two adjoining rooms but we had wanted a third one for my parents (for an additional fee we would be allowed to have the dog in the room with us) . However, we were told the same line we had been hearing for hours now "sorry, we are all booked up". So my mother decided to stay in the RV with the dog while my daughter shared a bed with me and my dad had the other bed in the room and my brother and his girlfriend were in the next room.
As soon as we got to the rooms I headed to the bathroom to throw up. I was in there for only about a minute when the power went out in the room. So there I was in a windowless room in the pitch black, sicker than a dog. But I didn't care. I just stayed put. The power came back on but then it went off again only a couple minutes later. Eventually we had to switch rooms, which was good but also made us angry because we had been told that there were no more rooms. Strange that they could come up with not just one room at a moments notice, but they could actually come up with two! Yeah right "we're booked". my butt!!
In the new rooms everyone finally went to sleep, exhausted from way more travelling than we had intended to do that day. Everyone but me that is. I was up in pain pretty much all night long. It was a long night.
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