Into Parc National de la Gaspesie

We woke up all cosy in our hotel beds and were greeted with fog and pouring rain. Because we had gotten behind in the distance travelled, we decided to drive the girls to the start of the hyway which lead to the national park. I stayed behind and did a load of laundry at the local tourism bureau which turned out to be the worst 3 hours of the trip. The tourism guy was a lonely man, I guess he doesn't get too many people coming through there except to use the washroom. So, it was a long 3 hours of slurred English (he spoke mostly french but still tried) and pictures of him in hockey leagues as a kid and his father in the war. Wonderful. But soon, Alex came to rescue me, and as I fled to the outside, I got this photograph. I've converted it to black and white, to give it an older feel (actually, probably didn't look much different 80 years ago)

Driving to the national park with Alex was fun (stopped at a Tim Horton's for some delicious, aka not-instant, coffee, Joy of Joys!). When we got to New Richmond, the weather suddenly cleared up and it became a beautiful sunny day. As we were driving we came across a stack of bikes and clothing, so we pulled over to find the girls

They were down by a river having lunch

We started planning our hike for the next day

The camping at the park was great, Erin cooked up some dinner

And taking advantage of the nice weather, we hung just about every article of clothing out to dry
The next day we planned to hike up Mont Albert. The weather was going to be perfect, and I was going to get some totally awesome photos! Look forward to them tomorrow :)