Jasper

First of all, I'm sure everyone says it - but holy god the rocky mountains are amazing. I have never seen anything so grandiose in my entire life. thanks mother nature. it was the first time I took pictures since we left, I will post some in the next couple of days.

So, after driving literally through the mountains on a route called The Icefields we got to Jasper around 8 and loaded in. This is obviously a mega rich town, its a resort town - its focus is on tourists who come here to go skiing. Believe it or not, this is the off season here in Jasper, so were weren't really expecting a whole lot from the show.

We played inside a hotel called the Athabasca Inn - and (if you're from yarmouth you'll get this) it was like playing at the Red Knight on a Saturday night. ie - people were more into dancing to shitty club music than they were listening to us. we tried to have a good time with it though, do stuff that was to only funny us - like, for example, there were tv screens all around the bar, and we got them to play the only DVD we had in the van while we played, which was Death - Live in LA.

We even had a couple hecklers, one asshole in particular who kept telling us to play tragically hip songs and wanting to fight us because we wouldn't. I might be thousands of miles from home, but you can't get more small-town Nova Scotia than that. Being super obsessed with Guns N Roses these days thanks to that Slash biography, the only thing i could think of was "What Would Axl Do?"

Don't get me wrong, there were some nice people here. A table of girls from Nova Scotia and New Brunswick bought us a round of Jager shots, and the bartenders were super nice to us.

Anyways, it was kind of a weird late debaucherous night, since we were staying just upstairs at this place.

Today, we're driving through more mountains to Vancouver. I'm going to venture outside and see what I can see here in Jasper before we have to load out.

BC, here we come.