Well I had to check out of the hotel, and decided to go and sort out my train ticket to Vancouver. Got that sorted and also check in my backpack which was once only half full, but now is nearing capacity. I certainly can feel the extra weight I am carrying around now (the bag - not my tummy hehe). Plus I still have a few presents to buy for people, I hope I can find them back in Vancouver before I depart. Surely I will, how hard can it be to find Maple Syrup in Canada honestly hhaha.
Well, so I went for a little walk and am now sitting in a pub having a beer, just typing away with any sort of impulse that comes into my head. Hmm... I have noticed that it doesn't seem to be as cold as my last time here in Jasper... maybe it's not as cold... I think it's about -5 here at the moment... still freezingly cold compared to almost anything in New Zealand, but I am seemingly becoming a bit more accustomed to the cold it seems... although not like a lot of the locals though who walk around without gloves and hats on and make me look like a big wussy haha.
So I have a rather long train trip ahead of me, the biggest one I will encounter so it seems, approximately 17 hours I think. And it's late already and there's still another 3-4 hours to go before it is due... But honestly, what do you expect with it being so cold and snowy everywhere. I know I am happy enough to let it slide, I am on holiday and wont be getting to worried about it all... this is why you don't organise things too far ahead, no connections or anything... just taking it easy. Very kiwi of me. hehe I checked out perhaps buying a train ticket with a sleeping cabin, I thought it would be nice to get a bed on this train trip, after all 17 hours is going to be hard to survive on the train... but considering it costs about $700 CAD for that trip I decided that the public cheapo seats is the way to go... Maybe I will meet the National Canadian Womens Volleyball team and they will fall madly in lust with me and invite me into their rooms for the night. haha Dammit, they have eluded me so far, maybe, just maybe they will be on the train. haha only half way in my first beer so far... :-)
OK so lets change the subject, women volleyball players on trains is getting perhaps a little out of hand...
Jasper township is pretty good, it's pretty basic really, but has a touch of tourism about it. Once you get out and about you really realise how much there is to see and do out here. Plus it only seems to be running at about 30% capacity. A lot of the stores seems to be closed for the season, only the important ones are still open (read: pubs). hehe. But now, in Jasper I went out on a Wildlife tour and also the Ice Valley walk, which was great but to get there we had to drive for quite some time and you see a lot of cool stuff that you could do if I had the right cold weather gear, or that you could do in the summer months. Funnily enough, it also has the affect of making me really keen to get back home and bloody well go out and explore the rest of the country that I haven't seen yet. Too many people I meet say "Oh yeh I was in NZ for a few weeks and I saw this and that... and I have hardly seen any of what these people talk about". Looks like I need to go and tour around the home country a bit and get off my lazy ass and go see these things a bit more.....
But on the flip side of this, skiing will not be one of the things I will be really keen to do in NZ again. I have been totally spoilt by Canada when it comes to the snow. Everywhere I go, there is snow, and it's all really puffy fluffy snow. Crazy. I kick it with my foot (which the locals then thought I have drunk too much Absenth) and it explode in a cloud of it all. Spoilt I am indeed. NZ snow is crap, slushy, icy rubbish, so it will have to be a pretty good situation if I am going to be finding my self skiing in NZ again. Luckily it's not my sport of choice, so I wont be too under pressure to move countries hehe.
OK.. so that enough right now... but damn, Pirates and Ninjas in Canada... I have seen it all I'm sure... :-)
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