It's a toasty 9 degrees outside in Banff today and it's raining so not much sightseeing to be done today. Everything's going exactly to plan though because that also means it's snowing on the mountain tops, which will make for better photos tomorrow when it's sunny again. And with our supernaturally good luck with the weather it had just BETTER be sunny.
Didn't write too much about Banff the other day as there was so much to detail about our trip over. We're not here that long so we've been on a pretty tight schedule to see everything we want to. Although when I say 'we', I mainly mean 'I', as the others are pretty much just being dragged along in my furious quest to see all the places I've been waiting to see since I was a kid. We've been up mountains, around lakes, through canyons, seen even more mountins and then a few more lakes just for good measure. We're actually staying at Lake Louise at the moment, but Lake Louise isn't so much a village as a street so we came back into town for the day while we wait for our snow to be prepared for tomorrow, when we're driving along the Icefields Parkway to Jasper. That will be a big trip, it's at least a 3 hour drive and we'll be stopping off along the way several times at the various lookouts, waterfalls and also to take a trip onto the Columbia Icefields in the enormous trucks with tyres which are as big as Karen is tall.
Karen is actually a pretty useful unit of measurement as we discovered at LA airport that you can actually buy a King sized cup of Coke which is literally as big as her HEAD, which is just crazy. But don't just take my word for it - I've now added a few pics to my Flickr site where you can see I'm not just making this up. Oh and there's some pretty scenery too. You can see them at www.flickr.com/photos/waynem
We've been eating very well actually, none of our hotels have kitchens or anything so far so we've been eating out. I tell you these Canadians do damn good dairy, we've had some of the best food here I've ever eaten anywhere. Breakfast in particular is always great, pancakes or french toast with maple syrup, omelettes, hash browns, and the cheese, milk and butter is just delicious. It's so good we've been able to get by with just breakfast and dinner most days. Life's tough ; )
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So any more pat downs????
Tell Karen & Michael that Suzie(dog) has complete control of the house now.
Garden City KMart has descended into chaos now Tracy isn't there to direct operations and they have to actually work.
Does your camera actually take pictures of anything human?
I thought sausage dogs were always a good unit of measurement!
Remember when you used to go into the hardware.
"G'day mate, just three sausage dogs of 3 gauge wire thanks"
Who is that anonymous person who's obsessed with pat downs? For your information, yes, I just got another one this morning here in Edmonton. It was less thorough though.
Don't be disapointed about less thorough pat downs I am sure there's more to come.:)
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