Moi, camping?: Moi: happy camper

Radium Hot Springs! I've been looking forward to hiking here and ending the day with a long soak in naturally warmed springs. Kinda wish David hadn't reminded me about that scene in Dante's Peak where innocent tourists, soaking in a hot spring, were boiled to death as a result of seismic activity.

Gross on so many levels. I'd rather be boiled alive than wear a rented 1920's unisex bathing suit.

A gradual introduction for the kids into Euro swim culture. Large hairy men in speedos. Large hairy women in tankinis. Although this sounds like one of my family reunions, the good news is I am not related to any one of these people!

But first, we hiked!

Sinclair Falls, short hike from our RV resort:

Then we had lunch. I'll start with the moral of the story: sacrifice the wi-fi to use Yelp before walking into any restaurant. I'm sure you've been there before-you walk into a joint and the only person eating there is the owner, dejectedly reading the paper (which is like, three weeks old). You make eye contact. He gets a glimmer of optimistic hope in his eyes and he rushes to bring you menus. You're trapped-only Anthony Bourdain could leave and further break his French broken heart. It's like being trapped inside an Edith Piaf song.

So it is. We ended up being served frozen pizza, reheated in a pizza oven, by a depressed Frenchman, while listening to his YouTube loop of Don Williams Greatest Hits. Don't know who Don Williams is? Think George Jones off of his anti-depressants for a week. The armchair psychologist in me kept thinking, there's gotta be a good story in our melancholy Frenchman's past. Sure enough, as David's asking him for travel tips, for no good reason, the ex-wife comes up. [Interior monologue: I KNEW there was an ex-wife!] As we walked away, we all felt a horrible black cloud of sadness over our heads. Not only was that depressing, but we just paid through the nose for frozen pizza (although, as he told us, the secret to his "home cooked" pizza is he bakes it on a pizza stone). Ahh! I'll have to try that at home.