Day 12 - May 25th
Woke up and I was still drunk, I'm sure. It was a very cold night, someone in the park said it got down to -5°. Copped a fair bit of a ribbing about the night before, but hey why not. Went for a shower at about 8:00 to try and sober up. Nothing special about it but on the way back from the shower it started to snow. I thought I was hallucinating but I was not. It was bloody well snowing. We decided to go and do a small hike up a big hill. We hiked up tunnel mountain. It took the hungover ones half an hour to get to the top (Yes me). We sat around up the top for a while and took some photos. See the group photo on the main page. Hung around up top for a while and then trekked back down. Several people walked back into town as we still had 45 minutes until we were to be picked up. I layed down on the concrete and fell asleep.
We had lunch and then drove up to Lake Louise. Decided to take the scenic route to see if we could see some wildlife, but all we saw was an Elk. As we got closer to Lake Louise the amount of snow on the ground was increasing until we hit the carpark and it was everywhere. 
Out of the van we and it was cold. We walked up to the lake and as we laid eyes on it, it took us by surprise the bitch was still frozen. Except it was a little defrosted around the edge. Through the defrosted section you could see the blue tinge that the lake is famous for. We walked around the lake and it was very spectacular.
The chateau was very nice with the Lake Louise ski resort in the background. We had to duck inside the Chateau to check it out and to defrost a bit. It was very classy, including the clasical music in the john. We also had a bite to eat. I bought a pie. I will never complain about a pie in Australia again. I was hungry so I ate all 17 parts of it : )
So then we decided to check out Lake Morain. It had also been belted around with the ice stick. There was heaps of snow on the ground. We thought that we were walking around on terra firma until we saw a postcard. We were actually standing on the frozen lake (oops). Again it was very beautiful. Headed back to the campground and chilled around before going to bed. Chilled being the appropriate word as it was 0o by the time we went to bed. Rugged up big time for sleeping. Gloves, thermals, beanie. Drugged up to try and beat the oncoming flu.
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