July 12

Today we began the trip back to Austin. It was a wonderful week in cool Canada and we were sorry to leave (ok, Joe wasn't sorry to leave, there was my "homesickness" from him).

Mom came with us to share the driving and enjoy a trip though Yellowstone.

Our first stop was an aircraft museum in Nanton, Alberta. It's on the side of the road and Joe got very excited when he saw the military aircraft. In the spirit of "let's stop and see stuff" we went in.
Joe loved all the aircraft and Pete thought it was very cool too. It was similar to the aircraft museum in Lowry, CO, but as Joe pointed out, "There's no X-wing" (they had a wooden life sized one in Lowry). We enjoyed it regardless of it's lack of Star Warsness.

Next was Head-Smashed-In-Buffalo-Jump in southern Alberta. It is a cliff in the prairie where the native americans would heard the buffalo over a cliff in order to have a large kill for food and skins. The building is built into the cliff and you start at the top and go down. It was interesting to learn about the preparations, see a movie about how it happened and then learn about the over hunting.

Onward into the US and a night in Great Falls, MT.