Saturday, December 17, 2011

Post from the Canadian Rockies

We got a real post card today. Not an email. A genuine post card on actual cardboard with a stamp and a beautiful Rocky Mountain lake scene on the reverse. Our German boys, Felix and Flo, have finally made it to the West Coast, through the Canadian Rockies and they sent us a post card to memorialize the event. Cool. Their Trans-Canada trek is over.
The post card reads:
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Hi Stan and Katie,
We just wanted to let you know that we made it to the West End of Canada. We're going to Seattle these days and I (Felix) will go back to G. soon. Have fun on your trip!
Cheers,
Felix and Flo
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The boys, 19 and 20, stayed with us for a few days in October. They bought a car in Toronto and drove it across the continent, working and learning North America as they went. For a while, they dipped into the US through Chicago and then we hooked up with them through the International Couch-surfing program. Great fun. Below, they helped Katie in the kitchen. We're glad their remarkable adventure went pretty much as planned. Last time we heard from them, it was in an email from somewhere up north. They had stopped, with soap and towel, for a November bath in a Canadian lake and seemed surprised and shocked at how cold the water was!
Ja. Sehr kalt, meine Herren! Aufenthalt aus dem Wasser heraus!