MaryAnn Here
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The little village of Banff, Alberta where we are staying, is nestled in and surrounded by mountains on all sides. When you think tourism you might include Banff, but in reality, it doesn’t appear that way. It just seemed to be to be a cozy little village (town) with the cutest shops and restaurants tucked here and there in the most unusual places. As I said before there are many little café that had outside seating. Could you spend the summer here, you bet you could....and the winter for that matter, if you are a skier.
Rundle Mountain in the background
Downtown Banff - Don't ya just love it
Today we left Banff rather early as we wanted to drive to Lake Louise to see it before everyone got there. Talk about luck, we no sooner parked our car and the place filled up.....and for good reason, Lake Louise is just a fantastic place to be and to see. The lake is small in size but when we were there the reflections were just incredibly fantastic to see. There is a huge hotel by it and I would imagine that it is filled to capacity all the time. Gorgeous gorgeous place to visit.
Beautiful place to visit
I just love reflection shots and this is the best yet
Lake Louise
Judy and Mike
This would be Jim and I in front of Lake Louise
We hopped into the car again and drove to Moraine Lake. Believe it or not but this small lake was even more beautiful than Lake Louise. We climbed and I mean climbed up to the highest closest point we could to get pictures of yes reflections on Moraine Lake. Fantastic amazing unbelievably gorgeous didn’t even come close to describing just how beautiful this area is. Pictures just can not do justice to what we saw....but of course I have some to show you.
The sight from the huge climb we took
Moraine Lake at it's finest
Gorgeous spot to just sit with the one you love
On the way back to Banff we stopped off to have our picnic lunch where we were able to sit and see the mountains with that white white snow at the top. Lunch is getting to be a good time to reflect about what we are seeing and doing. Mostly eating too much.
Lunch Bunch
We saw a number of these bridges and thought since there is no road that goes across it must be for the wildlife to cross.
So we arrive back in Banff to a huge traffic problem as a huge race was taking place. The few roads that are in Banff were filled with cars and most seemed to not know where they were going. Not a policeman in sight to help direct traffic either. We did manage to arrive at our motel and have not moved the car since. Jim and I went for a walk along Bow Falls Trail and Mike and Judy went into town. Our motel is only a five minute walk to the center of Banff which could not be more perfect. (Good job Mike)
We were in our rooms getting ready for our daily happy hour when we smelled smoke, lots of smoke. For a minute Jim and I thought Judy was trying to cook on the manifold again but it seems a fire has started about a hundred miles from here.
So that’s our day for today. Tomorrow it’s Jasper and Mike and Judy’s turn to Blog.
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