My BC tour continued last week, taking me to the last region on my list: the Kootenay Rockies. I'd always wanted to see the Rockies, and got a taste when work took me to visit the fine folks at Kootenay Rockies Tourism. This time I went out with my office roomie and colleague extraordinaire, Sarah, to a little town called Kimberley. 
It's a quaint, oddly Bavarian-themed town at the foothills of the Rockies, about three hours' drive from Calgary, Alberta. Sun was shining, our meetings went well and we even managed to squeeze in a quick drive over to the Fairmont Hotsprings. I stayed in a ski resort, hiked up a small bit of Kimberley mountain and had a bison steak for dinner. Awwww yeah! 
These are not bison. And they were not for dinner. But they bolted like they were going to be. But not Baby Bambi! There was a wee deer, just snuffling in among the leaves at the side of the road. Mmmm, road leaves...
Soon, Dr. Doolittle and her sidekick came up upon the Hoodoos That You Do So Well. The Hoodoos are a cool bit of curvalicious slate rock that weirdly jut out en route to Fairmont. They're quite a bit different from the lush green alpiney mountains and so we dubbed them "pretty neat". 
Then it was time for a quick dip in the Fairmont Hot Springs - which S. and I dubbed "The Fountain of Anti-Youth". Either a bus load of codgers had dumped off its cargo straight into the pool, or the pool's properties, combined with sitting in it for hours, caused many young people to turn old, flabby and wrinkly. Can't be certain. We escaped, though, and here, S. waves about her bikini - for it was, in fact, the only bikini to be seen amid miles of Size 20 crazily-flowered one-pieces.
In all, a fine jaunt to another corner of BC's verdant land!
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