Alan is being a big meanie poo poo and making me write today's blog,. He will undoubtedly dispute this in red. That's ok. Everyone knows I'm bloody lovely.
Sleep in morning and the theme of the rest of the day was pretty much rest. We needed a bit of rest after 2 weeks of being on the go every day. It was lovely and sunny this morning but the forecast was for cloud and rain this afternoon so we got ourselves together and left the hotel about 11am. We drove to the Banff Gondola. This is the first time since Disneyland that we've had to queue up for anything. About 15 minutes later we were on our 8 minute trip to the top. It wasn't freezing like in Jasper, it was actually reasonably pleasant at the top. Here you get a 360 degree view of the Rocky Mountains. They really are spectacular. After about 20 minutes the cloud started to roll in so we queued up to return to the bottom.
We then took a drive around the large Fairmont Banff Springs Resort. There must have been something going on there today as there were people everywhere. Next was a quick few minutes drive to Bow Falls. I don't really understand how they can call a little bit of water dribbling over a few rocks as falls. It's to suck in unsuspecting tourists.
Then we drove back to the town looking for something to eat. Alan spied a Mall and we thought we might find some food in there. Ah, no. There were four shops. Not what I call a mall. I suggested to Alan we go one block off the main street and sure enough, I saw a market. We found what they call a picnic lunch, which was quarter of a chicken, potato salad, coleslaw, carrots and celery. Although we had no cutlery we were able to improvise and use the celery as a spoon for the salads and ate the chicken with our hands. I have to say, it was pretty good, all for $4.99 each. I think our bodies have been crying out for some real food.
As we had lunch we were watching Star Wars Attack of the Clones on TV. After lunch we had a nice nap and when we woke up, they were showing Star Wars Revenge of the Sith. After that was finished we went to the next hotel over and ordered a pizza. We weren't confident we were going to get what we ordered as it seemed that neither girl working there spoke good English but we did get a pizza eventually and returned to our room to eat it. They had no idea what was going on. They couldn't even remember whether we had paid them already. Now we are watching Star Wars Phantom Menace. All in all, it has been a pretty good day.
Tomorrow we hope to get back to Lake Louise for a bigger walk and might head up to the ski area, whose season is still going strong.
Sleep in morning and the theme of the rest of the day was pretty much rest. We needed a bit of rest after 2 weeks of being on the go every day. It was lovely and sunny this morning but the forecast was for cloud and rain this afternoon so we got ourselves together and left the hotel about 11am. We drove to the Banff Gondola. This is the first time since Disneyland that we've had to queue up for anything. About 15 minutes later we were on our 8 minute trip to the top. It wasn't freezing like in Jasper, it was actually reasonably pleasant at the top. Here you get a 360 degree view of the Rocky Mountains. They really are spectacular. After about 20 minutes the cloud started to roll in so we queued up to return to the bottom.
We then took a drive around the large Fairmont Banff Springs Resort. There must have been something going on there today as there were people everywhere. Next was a quick few minutes drive to Bow Falls. I don't really understand how they can call a little bit of water dribbling over a few rocks as falls. It's to suck in unsuspecting tourists.
Then we drove back to the town looking for something to eat. Alan spied a Mall and we thought we might find some food in there. Ah, no. There were four shops. Not what I call a mall. I suggested to Alan we go one block off the main street and sure enough, I saw a market. We found what they call a picnic lunch, which was quarter of a chicken, potato salad, coleslaw, carrots and celery. Although we had no cutlery we were able to improvise and use the celery as a spoon for the salads and ate the chicken with our hands. I have to say, it was pretty good, all for $4.99 each. I think our bodies have been crying out for some real food.
As we had lunch we were watching Star Wars Attack of the Clones on TV. After lunch we had a nice nap and when we woke up, they were showing Star Wars Revenge of the Sith. After that was finished we went to the next hotel over and ordered a pizza. We weren't confident we were going to get what we ordered as it seemed that neither girl working there spoke good English but we did get a pizza eventually and returned to our room to eat it. They had no idea what was going on. They couldn't even remember whether we had paid them already. Now we are watching Star Wars Phantom Menace. All in all, it has been a pretty good day.
Tomorrow we hope to get back to Lake Louise for a bigger walk and might head up to the ski area, whose season is still going strong.
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