Day 6
On this day we woke up early and went to a local farm for breakfast. Today was another driving day so after a while we stopped at the Golden spike. We saw the spot were the Canadian Pacific Railway had its last spike driven in. (The took the real spike out so no one could steal it.) One thing we learned is that the spike really isn’t golden because they were planning on a silver spike but, the man in charge of the railway said no and that it should be normal spike.
Then after more driving we stopped at Roger’s Pass in Glacier National Park around time and saw a little tiny museum with information on Roger’s Pass all the way back to the 1800s when the Pass was first found. They had information on the animals that live in the region.
After that we drove on some more to the wolf center. There we learned that when wolves run their back feet come up to their front feet so the front makes a path for back feet. Also, we learned that they have webbed feet and we learned order of the whole pack down from the alpha wolf to the omega. One other is the omega sticks its tail in between its legs because he is the lowest and the alpha raises its tail higher because he is at the top of the order. Then at the end we all started howling and the wolves joined in. It was so cool how the wolf howled so loudly and long and it was fun too howling along with them.
We then drove on to Banff and went to the gondola and rode up Sulphur Mountain. It was fun riding in it with my friends. When we got to the top we ate dinner with the beautiful view of the mountains right out the window. After eating our dinner we went up even higher to the observatory deck and saw the beatiful view of the big mountains and of Banff. It was amazing except for that I was freezing cold. After riding down the hill we checked into the lodge we were staying at.
P.S.
Today we left British Columbia and entered Alberta.
