Banff Holiday Continued

Well, Thursday night we did have dinner with my aunt. Afterwards we headed up to the Arts centre for a Celtic Concert.

Friday we went for a cross country ski up near Lake Louise. It was beautiful up there. And it was nice to get some exercise after a few days of driving.

Saturday we drove out past Invermere to meet up with my brother and his wife. We went out to these natural hot springs for the afternoon. Then back to the place they were staying for a barbeque before driving back along the winding road to Banff.

Today we attempted to go for a hike. It was way to icy for me to brave the trail up to Johnstone Canyon, so we found an alternate walk along a river instead. It was quite nice, and right on par with my current walking abilities.

This evening E&I are off to an Indian restaurant in town for dinner. Yummy Indian food! I hope the baby is okay with it!

Then tomorrow we begin the long drive home. It has been so nice and relaxing to be away from Winnipeg and we're both not all that excited about going home again. But we can't avoid daily life altogether I suppose...

Banff Holiday

Today is day 1 in Banff. Tuesday night after work, E & I hit the road and pulled into Regina very late in the evening. Wednesday we spent the day on the road and made it to Calgary in time to have dinner with some of E's extended family.

This morning, we made a pit stop at Ikea and picked up a lamp and a ceiling light fixture. Sigh, if only there was an Ikea in Winnipeg... We would buy so much stuff there instead of having to first scour the city for items we like.

We pulled into Banff around 2pm and booked into our hotel. We have already had a lovely afternoon walk along the river and a luxurious soak in the hot tub. We'll be meeting my aunt for supper, whenever she calls us back and then will probably go for another soak in the hot tub. Hot tubs are necessary for recovering from long road trips!

I'll post some pics later on. I'm not sure we have the right cords along for me to download anything.

LOVING the weekend.

Sigh, 15 minutes until I can head home for the weekend. I should still tidy my desk before leaving, but I've already written out my 'to do' list for next week.

Tonight E&I are headed to Providence College to get a display of his photos set up. Tomorrow E will probably head to the house to continue with the tiling and I will attempt to get another few pages of my thesis proposal done. Tomorrow night I'll head to my hometown to visit a few of my high school friends. I'm not sure what our Sunday plans will be.

It doesn't really matter what we plan to do on a weekend, all that matters is that we are free from the workday obligations and schedules and can make it up as we go along.

89 days and counting

I am so tired these days. Apparently this is a normal feature of the third trimester of pregnancy. I just can't seem to get focused, everything goes slowly, and I keep zoning out in the middle of things. I really hope this doesn't last for the entire next 89 days or so.

Warm week again

After another week of wearing ski pants to work, I have again attempted to put them away. This week is gearing up to be fairly tolerable weather-wise. Hopefully it continues.

Trip to Banff

In a few weeks, E&I are taking a little road trip out to Banff. I have an aunt who lives out there, so we'll visit her. But we also just want to get away from Manitoba for a little while.

I haven't been out to Banff for a long time. After I finished my final year of bible college (yes, I actually went to bible college) I spent a summer working in Banff. It was great! I loved the hiking, the mountains, the air, the rivers and everthing. I didn't really like the mass exodus in of tourists. Most of whom were either seniors or Japanese. By mid-June, it was a sea of people in town. I lived with my aunt in her apartment that summer and worked as a front desk clerk in a hotel, Irwin's Moter Inn. It's still there, I checked.

It was a fun summer. But I came to the conclusion that in spite of my enjoyment, I couldn't live right smack in the mountains - I didn't like the shadows. There wasn't any sunrise, just the sun coming out from behind a peak, and there wasn't a sunset, just the sun disappearing mid evening behind a peak on the other side. I just felt a little to closed in. Not that I feel I need a vast prairie with absolutely no landscape variation around me... heaven's no! But the mountains proved to be a bit too overbearing for my comfort. That and the crowds of tourists.