Saturday, April 12, 2003
Okay ... so I haven't been to many 1-year-old birthday parties in my life. Whoo! Lots of little kids ... and they all seem to melt down simultaneously!! ;-) It was fun, though, and my nephew seemed to have a great time (he didn't follow the melt-down trend!!)
THEN ... we rented "8 Mile" (after Ian went to bed). What a good movie!!! (Somebody tell Melen!) I must say that I really liked it. Surprise, surprise. Doesn't make me want to listen to his music. But it was a movie worth watching.
Haven't gotten much more done as far as reservations for Banff or Jasper yet. I'll have to work on that tomorrow. I'm trying to figure out how many hours it will take to drive from Billings to Jasper. There seem to be problems at one or the other of mapquest.com and maps.yahoo.com. The distance from Billings, MT to Calgary, AB is about 650 miles ... both websites agree on that. THEN ... mapquest says that the driving TIME is about 18 hours. EIGHTEEN!!?? Yahoo quotes the driving time as ten hours. Now ... I realize that some of this is mountain driving. But ... eighteen hours? And mapquest is supposed to be more reliable. What do I do. I can't make reservations for a place that I can't possibly get to in a day of driving. And ... I don't want to get stuck sleeping in my car because my reservations are for the next night and Banff and Jasper are too full to just get a room when you arrive there. UGH!! I guess I'm off to AAA this week. Hope that Western NY AAA will accept my Potomac membership for the trip-tik.
Later!!
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