Our Austrian relatives told us that they wanted their visit to Canada to be very relaxed. As they had already been to Alberta on two previous occasions, they were not so concerned about attempting to "see everything". Rather, they wanted to not waste a lot of time driving around, instead wanting to slow down and really experience some of the places that they visited. With that in mind we stayed for two full days at the TL Bar Ranch. The first day was the trail riding, and the second day was to be a canoe trip down the river. In the morning, Annelise, Helena and I went out for a short trail ride. The others were renting two canoes and were going to paddle down the river. The start of the canoe trip ended up getting delayed a couple of hours so Anna was able to join them after all, while Helena and I stayed behind at the campsite. We rented two canoes, and everyone was dropped off upstream at Dry Island Buffalo Jump. Karl, Shawn, Bethany and Garrett were in one canoe, while Martina, Margarit, Hailey and Annelise were in the other. It took them about three hours to paddle down the river back to the ranch. Helena and I were waiting for them down on the riverbank when they paddled into sight.
It was another hot day and quite humid. By late afternoon as the days activities were done, we all just lazed around the campsite and relaxed. By evening a really nasty looking thunderstorm rolled by. One really cool looking cloud went right over us, and then the bulk of the storm bypassed us. We watched the spectacular lightning show and could hear the thunder crashing, but it passed by a few miles to the south and we really didn't get anything in the way of rain.
We sat around the fire for quite a while that evening. One by one everyone turned in and eventually I found myself alone, watching the fire and enjoying the evening. I played around a little with my pocket camera and took a few long time exposures of the camping area bathed in moon and star light. Eventually I turned in and called it a day.
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