We took off Friday on our way to Bliss ville (a.k.a. Banff/Canmore) driving our first adventure in Terry's 110 Land rover Defender.~picture time~
We drove in this loud smelly truck (sorry Bear, but you know it's a bit smelly) in some kind of surprising comfort. How very unexpected!
We had some company though...a mascot!
Cute bobble head bear...oh, and his dash toy too!
So we stopped in Canmore before hitting Banff for some pre weekend hiking,hiking. We strolled up up up to Grassy Lakes to see the water falls:
We also checked out some fellow hikers and their dog in a back pack!?
Weird!
I then stood on a bench with thoughts of my good friend Michel.
(although I realize it's not Monday)
We finally made it to the beautiful, mesmerizing lake on top.
*a whole week end and most of our pictures are from the first day*
Check out this guy I found up by the climbing rocks.
We had a great hike that Friday but we did head off to Banff pretty quick to get to our hotel. We just love it here. We each get a perma grin for our whole stay, as a bonus offer I assume.
The next day we headed off to lake Louise where we we hiked up to Plain of Six Glaciers Tea House.
It was so hard at the end but worth the lack of breath to enjoy the tea and home made soup after 2115 feet in just 2 kms. Phew. But noooo, we weren't done yet! "Let's go check out the Lake Agnes Tea House now" he says. Well, since I had got my breath back by then and I knew we had to head 1 km back down to hit the trail, I was in.
Inukshuk moment.
Well, we hiked. It rained. Then it didn't. Then we were sweaty. Then it rained. Then it didn't. Then we were sweaty. repeat.
Words that later haunt me in a leg pained dreams filled with hurt "Hey" Terry says almost too cheery " I have always wanted to go check out Big Bee Hive but no one has ever wanted to go with me. Want to check it out?"
Needless to say, I horked my first loogy that day...no pictures please. We went straight up what turned out to be the back side of Big Beehive. What an amazing sight it was but we couldn't breath a lot so I took no photos on the way up.
We found a friend on top who liked my camera bag:
And this relaxing view point of where we once started mere hours before:
Ok well, that is all there is for pictures from our weekend even though there was another day and a half of fun in Banff.
We hiked 7 hours total that day and could barely manage to take the steps up into the truck when we finally returned to it. We ended up at the Keg having a DANG fantastic dinner thanks to Ma and Pa Gamble for a 1st anniversary gift. So so very good food. We basically just stared at each other the whole time. ~That's love baby~
We walked the tourist filled streets of Banff and the equally tourist filled streets of Canmore where we lunched and hiked just a wee bit more, only this time through the town's trails lined with houses of our dreams.
Nice of you to stick around to the end.
That's it. All done. Back to reality...(which happens to be not too shabby)
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