Making our way to Invermere

To get to Invermere we need to go via Greyhound buses. Invermere is approximately 4hrs from Calgary. On the Greyhound website the bus ride was going to take 14hrs! Turns out there is a 10hr over night stop over in Radium Hot Springs. We called Greyhound to confirm this and ask if there were any other buses that were express to Invermere. They advised no and the only bus left at 630pm.

We caught a taxi to the Greyhound station which cost $20. We bought our tickets which was around $70 with the additional bag (snowboard bag) paid for. The bus was delayed an hour so we ended up leaving at 730. We had some Aussies sitting in front of us and they were going to work at Panorama as well. They told us that there was no overnight stop over at Radium and that we were getting into Invermere at 1030 tonight! Now 1130 because we were late! Why would the call centre tell us different?! Not happy Jan...! So we rang a taxi to pick us up from the Invermere drop off point and take us into town where we could hopefully find a hostel. And I rang Radium Hot Springs hostel to say we werent coming anymore.  I plan on ringing Greyhound and complaining...

So we got dropped off at the Invermere highway traffic lights and waited for 5mins for our taxi.. it was the first time my teeth were chattering since we arrived.. It was so cold! Did i mention it got to -27 degrees today??

We found a hostel that could take us, thank goodness someone was outside having a smoke! He rang the owner who was asleep at his home, who drove in and booked us in for the night $52.

Its now 9am Friday morning and Aaron and I are heading into town to open up a bank account, buy some bed sheets for our accommodation on the mountain and do some laundry. We then have to catch a cab to the mountain before 430 so Aaron can fill in his Employee manual documents ready to start work on Monday!