We woke up and had an amazing breakfast. Frittatas made extra special for the hungry bikers, fruit and yogurt parfaits, and bagels with homemade jam. Our hosts gave us lots of biking advice, short cuts to take and most importantly routes to avoid hills. Off we went, out into the super hot day. We took plenty of breaks and I was much more aware of drinking liquids and applying sunscreen today. Lodging once again was proving to be difficult so we decided that we would camp most likely.
We stopped for lunch in Schoomachuck. Seriously quite the name. However, their convenience store was quite barren. I think it was only convenient if you wanted gas, but we did find a pizza pita and decided to split it and eat some snacks we were carrying. (Last night at the grocery store Mike bought a 6 pack of Coke bottles because it was cheaper than just buying two coke bottles). So we were hauling those in the heat today. So at our little break Mike takes the one out of the tent to drink, but then decides the ones in my pannier are colder, so he gets that one out to drink, and replaces the coke taken from his load and puts it back in my bag. I see how this works, lighten your own load...
The odometer at the bottom read 300 miles! Since the start of this tour, not counting the biking around Jasper pre tour.
We got back on the bikes when the heat in the shade became too unbearable. I think the words, "I'm hot, I just need to get biking" came out of my mouth. With the breeze from the bike it wasn't too bad out, and the occasional clouds providing shade were amazing.
The scenery has changed quite a bit. Hardly any snow capped mountains in sight and the mountains aren't as close. We are in Canadian Ranchland now.
At one point a very slight drizzle came down on us. They were like little rain drops from heaven. It felt so good.
We eventually made it to a little pub in Wasa where we stopped for lunch part 2. We could camp here, book at their hotel, or continue on to Fort Steele where we hoped to end the night. We decided to press on. It was still hot, and uphill, but we made it to the campground. We got a site, got icecream, and went to set up camp before jumping in the pool. 
We made sure the campground tonight had showers. After biking in the heat they were needed! It seems so crazy that just a few days ago we were cold up in the mountains and spent days biking without ever taking off our long sleeves.
After showering we went to play on the playground. Bad idea. We were on this one spin around thing and Mike fell off first, and then me, but I fell super awkwardly and banged my knee really hard just adding to my bruising from yesterday.
The tent was set up, with the rain fly off. It was only suppose to cool down to 73 at night! And then it started raining, so we put the rain fly on, but that made inside the tent feel like a sauna, so we chanced it and took it off. Falling asleep was quite uncomfortable with the heat and lack of breeze. It may have been okay with one person in the tent, but this is our happy honeymoon adventure and the mosquitoes were so bad outside the tent that you had to seek refuge inside. We both finally fell asleep, and slept pretty well. It ended up cooling off enough that we both were inside our sleeping bags on the morning rather than on top like at night.
A little evening snack. I have fallen in love with tomatoe juice up here. This is probably about my 6th can since arriving in Canada.
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