Our Visit to Banff!

Hi Everyone,

so sorry it has been a while since I sent a bog but we have been away for 6 nights in Banff and Jasper and have only arrived home to Edmonton today.

We had a wonderful trip and got to see the most beautiful scenery!

Some of the highlights; definatly the Grizzly Bear sighting right across the road from our Hotel! This was Sanfords first Grizzly sighting so we were pretty chuffed we were there with him to see that too. He was a really big bear and we were only metres away from him! AWESOME! Well, you wouldn't beleive it, we then managed to see a further 4 more sightings on our trip of black bears! They too were really close to the road side so we just stopped and watched them! There you go Lumsden, I was able to see quite a few real life bears - no Emmalee, I was not eaten by one - just as well!

Unfortunatly, we were unable to see any of the actual well known and common wildlife of Canada such as Elk, Big Horn sheep or Moose! Sanford said this was really weird as usually they see these animals in Banff and Jasper all the time - not this trip, we only got to see bears!

Now from the photos you will see Shane and I got to visit some very famous mountains - can you remember what they are?

That's right the Rockies!

We didn't get to acutally climb them but we did go on a gondala ride right up high and were able to walk amongst the Rockies. It was quite cold but beautiful scenery!

Banff was extremely beautiful fullstop! We loved walking around the town and seeing the sights. One of my favourite places was the Baff Springs Hotel - at first we thought Lorna and Sanford had us staying there - but instead we stayed at the Inns of Banff, which is just as well really or we wouldn't have seen the Grizzly Bear!

We did spend a day walking through the Hotel and we even got to see some very flash cars there too - 11 Lamborghini and Ferrari's - thought you might like to see these James!

We have also seen some very pretty and special waterfalls on our trip. The one in Banff was called Bow Falls - lovely.

You will also see from the photos that our hotel had outside hot pools and you will notice that as we swam and relaxed we had the Rockies behind us! Just Beautiful.

Jasper to come!

Rakelle and Shane. xxx