More of Canada

Well, the Rockies anyway...

It's about time I, Jay, posted something, especially since Julie is slacking off these days with her plush teaching gig (sarcasm).

Anyway, here are a few more pics mostly from the Banff area, where we spent most of our time after Jasper.



Julie sampling the barleywine at the Grizzly Paw brewery in Canmore

Fall was just starting to show itself.

Curious Mr. Marmot peaked up from the roadside and we snapped his picture.

The trees against Peyto Lake, with the afternoon shadow from the mountains quickly advancing.

Glacier Lake, which we had all to ourselves for a night.

Days two and three in the Canadian Rockies

Don't forget that Sean's photos can be found here:
http://www.seanneilson.com/juliejay/index.html

You can tell that I'm going through the photos one slow day at a time. And I SHOULD be working on my lectures for the biology class! We spent one day in Jasper hiking up Bald Hill for a massive view of Maligne Lake and the craggy mountains surrounding it. Somehow our rainy hiking luck left us behind for our honeymoon and we scored on almost perfect weather. the day it did rain, I was almost glad. Mountains seem to have different moods in weather, and we love the misty colors that rain gives off on the peaks.

Jasper National Park

Jay fly fishing

Cooking dinner

See little Julie?

Gray jay

yipee!

Here's a special treat for all of you.

Day one of the honeymoon - the drive to Alberta!

Day one of the honeymoon was mostly one longggg drive. It takes over 10 hours to get from Anacortes to Banff. But we were going even further north to Jasper National Park. We got to B.C. the first night and camped out in a small little provincial park, Lac le Jeune. Then we drove all day to Jasper and arrived in time to hit the Jasper Brewing Company (good, but we found even better beer later in Canmore). The biggest surprise of this gorgeous drive - Mt. Robson. We just casually drove around a corner and WHAM! We were staring at the highest mountain in the Canadian Rockies. I almost drove off the road. Lucky for us, there was a pullover to deal with people like me. So we stopped to gawk before continuing on.

And Alaska folks - Mt. Robson is the second highest mountain in B.C., second to the lovely Mt. Fairweather we all know and love.

Mt. Robson

Julie, Tink 2, and Mt. Robson

Sean's awesome photos

Hi everyone -
Sean's awesome photos from the big event are up on his webpage.

http://www.seanneilson.com/juliejay/index.html

Thanks Sean for such a great job!!! =)

If we had not taken so many freakin' photos in the Canadian Rockies maybe they would be posted by now. Jay's working on them, I'm working on biology lectures.

Just a few shots

The real wedding photos will arrive once our friend Sean sends them along to us.....but in the mean time we have many fun photos from friends and family to share. I start my new job tomorrow, so this is a quickie glance. I hope to post more from the Canadian Rockies (we had amazing weather and an unreal time up in the mountains) and from the wedding tonight or this week!

Brewpub tour!!

Our special pint glasses

Alaska pyramid

We had f.u.n.

Yipee!!!

We don't have time to post a picture of the two of us right off the bat, but here is a photo our friend Randi took of the tent draped in Indian saris. We are trying to get out of here for Banff and Jasper, hence the hurry....but it was an AWESOME long weekend par-tay that was made wonderful by our family and friends.

gettin' hitched tomorrow!

yeeeehaw!