Insanely sensible farewells her 20s

So my three introductions to Vancouver were: Waking up at 5 am this morning to discover we were at the station already. Meeting Joy my Airbnb host.  Getting my first bus.  But let's go back a bit first to where I started my notes for this post.  Back to Saturday.  Well the good news is it seems like the worst of the cold is gone.  That's a relief.  I didn't really want to be struggling through the final days of my trip. Also good news, I ran into the guy from the tour yesterday at the train station and was able to read his name tag - he's Jeff, so if I leave a review now I can name them both.  The bad news is I woke up this morning to see the train which had been on schedule yesterday was now 4 hours late.  In Jasper that's really not a problem, I just checked my bag in and then went to find coffee.  No where in Jasper is more than 5 minutes from the train station so you're pretty safe to go wandering.  As it was the train turn...

I did manage to convince my feet to walk the 8 minutes to the brewing bar yesterday.  I got my burger with a side of poutine which seemed slightly classier than the last lot I ate, and was pretty good.  I also tried two of their beers, a pilsner which was fine and one of their signatures Jasper the beer which was good.  A better dinner than tonight's, but I'll tell you about that later. Today was a tour up to Maligne valley and Medicine lake.  I was glad this morning that I had an easy going day planned.  I've been fighting an oncoming cold since Toronto and this morning it hit, I woke up feeling worse for wear.  A bit of food and some advil helped a lot. In contrast to yesterday this tour had three people on it (yesterday was 46).  The smaller tour group was a little strange, but as we managed to time our stops differently to the other buses out there felt a lot more peaceful.  The other two were a couple of South Carolina. The closest ...