Jasper- where is the ski hill!!??

On:e thing i cannot get used to is the time frame....like yesterday our contractor said they would be there  at 8:15.  We left the house this morning at 8:50 and the contractors still weren't there!!  That's gonna take some getting used to as Matt said it's happened to him at work or when he was here the 2 weeks before us, when ppl said to be there at a certain time..i think its a ballpark figure .  Usually before noon means before 2!!!

Well we drove to Jasper,  I packed us a lunch and we ate it on route.  It took us till 1 to get into Jasper park, but as we were driving up to the mountains I was like wowed!!!  (so was Matt!)  Laura was sleeping and John was trying to nap as he couldn't go swimming if he didn't nap!  So once we got into the National Park, we saw something on the road....I go man that looks like an elephant but it can't be...lol  it was 3 mountain goats, on the road, they wouldn't move!  Matt took a couple pictures and drove right beside- he could have petted them if he opened his window...- we woke the kids up at that point - they were excited.  We were surrounded by mountains....well if the speed limit was 80 Matt was going just that, letting the cars pass us....it was really amazing.  We turned a corner, iturned my head and saw lots of other goats on the side of the road, Matt did a U-turn to get some pics of them.  Some Rams were in there also!  (made me think of Lisa - isn't the school your at the Rams?)

So we got to the hotel- I can't see the ski hill....this confuses me- however we go swimming and then I managed to convince the kids to go for a walk...figuring i can see the ski hill!  Well we start our walk, we get the stroller, John decides once we leave the hotel parking lot that he doesn't want to walk so Matt pushes the 2 kids in the single stroller!! heehee  We find "down town" it's pretty nice!  However we are still looking for a ski hill...Matt told me this morning that it's not all open but only 76 runs are....so it's not a small hill!!    We stopped for hot chocolate and cookies...still no sighting.  I was thinking it was like Whistler where all the shops are at the bottom of the hill, or at Blue Mountain where its it's own resort with lots of shops....  So needless to say I think we are going for a drive tomorrow to find this ski hill even though we aren't going to ski.  It's just not what i expected!!

Tomorrow we will be going to the community centre for the kids to swim and then I am going for a massage and a pedicure! WOOT  Looking for forward to it.