Saturday and I'm in the mountains and not working! Yay!
at breakfast I got to meet the rest of the group, as there are around 12 of us in total, then we drove over to Lake Louise to do a five hour hike.
it was amazing as there was snow on the ground in places and its a beautiful area. The scenery changed from lakeside to forest to rocky but I was far too lazy to take any pictures at all. I was suffering a bit from the cheap rum yesterday, which took the edge off how happy I felt, but my word of the day was still "amazing!" and I really enjoyed the hike and meeting the group. We even saw an avalanche happening the other side of the valley, which was pretty spectacular.
there was one bit I didn't like, because it was steep and gravelly so I felt a bit dizzy with vertigo and basically crawled back down again, and quite a few people slipped on the ice of the downhill return route, but I came through unscathed somehow.
By the time we finished the walk, we decided to go straight to dinner. I had decided that I would start my birthday on UK time, so at 5pm it would be midnight in the UK and therefore my birthday.
The restaurant had a lovely room with a big wooden table big enough for all of us. I ate an elk burger, which was delicious, pink and spicy and a new animal for me! I was stuffed by the time I finished, and getting really sleepy, then the waitress came over with a slice of chocolate cake for my birthday! That was really touching. The group then sung happy birthday to me, which made me laugh a lot because some of them weren't sure of my name so it all went a bit wrong in the middle! I was also extremely pleased that the cake had cream and sprinkles on the side and the sprinkles were shaped like dinosaurs. Amazing!
The next part of the day was a trip to the hot springs, which I decided to skip as I was still feeling really full up from dinner. Once I'd recovered, me and Nicole hung out in the hostel lobby and the bar waiting for everyone to get back. We were planning on heading into town to go dancing but were both a bit too sleepy, so when the rest of the group suggested playing board games this seemed like a much better plan. We were having so much fun, we ended up staying up til quite late.
I also met quite a few Brits, although I didn't recognise a couple of them as being British! I may have been here too long, or maybe it was just noisy and hard to hear. They did think I was Australian so it wasn't just me!
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