First day in Jasper

It was pretty rainy most of the day. We spent some time walking around the West Edmonton mall, which is kind of like the Mall of America, with a skating rink, water park and other fun stuff.  But it turns out it's still a mall, and mall-itis set in fairly quickly for me.  Got to the Overlander Lodge and moved everything into our room.  The rain let up as we moved our stuff into our room so we decided to go check out the park a little bit.  The Overlander is about 5 minutes outside of Jasper National Park and we were able to quickly drive to Patricia Lake and on to Pyramid Lake which is right next-door. We did a little walk around Pyramid island and looked at Pyramid mountain and the other mountains that circle the lakes. 

We then went to dinner at the Whistlestop pub in town. We just got some nachos and a burger and the food wasn't great but it filled us up.   We then looked around in a couple of gift shops.  As we left town, we noticed a herd of elk grazing right by the road, so we stopped and took a couple pictures. We also stopped further down the road, because there was a really cool view of the mountains and the river in the sunset. We also spotted an interesting contrast in the color of the water right in the middle of the river.  I guess this results from the water coming down from the glacier and mixing in with the current.  Further down the road, I think I saw a bear run across in front of the car ahead of us. But to be honest, I'm not really sure. It was a quick black shape running across the road and disappearing in the woods. So that's our first possible bear sighting.