Voyager Inn Banff

... be an hour's hike over some fairly steep and narrow paths halfway around the lake. It was a really enjoyable walk though and gave us all a chance to stretch out. Chris woke up when we got back, ate lunch with us and then entertained us with card tricks which he was very good at.

The others all came back from kayaking, all having managed to stay in the boats. We had been making bets that some of them, particularly T, would end up in ...

... offered me a lift into Hollywood and so I took it. I didn't realise that a lift meant he was going to spend the whole night on my tail! Very annoying, but free transport, so can't complain. We ended up going to the bar where River Phoenix died and watched some live music. At the end of the night he took me to a 'Black' club where I was the only white person. When I entered, this one girl turned to her friends and says "Look! A white person!" hehe.. that didn't make me ...

... Though, we spent most of dinning time on Main Street in Canmore. They have several excellent cafe and coffee shop along with great casual dinning up and down the mail drag. Oh, if you haven't been, be sure to check out Canada's favorite fast food place Timm Horton's, My son loves the maple donuts.

Enjoy, you only go around once.

Greg Grajek, aka thcadean

... I've spent the last few days alone but I've actually enjoyed the solitude. When I finally made it to the top of Lake Louise Drive, I was taken aback at first because I somehow didn't expect the lake to be frozen (probably because of all the postcards I'd seen where the lake reflects the mountains). But aside from that, I was looking out into a full-scale postcard: mountains on either side of the lake with a glacier in the middle ...

... hadn't reached full effect and I sharted!!!! I just hope that happened on the way home, but who knows!! Probably the only good news about waking up was that I found my jacket and Camera and the Russians didn't get me!! Oh and Phil told me that after asking the Cabby where i got dropped off at, he walked in the pub to find me on the dance floor owning it!!!....all by myself and everyone watching....because I was rubbish and the song was ****, lucky i was drunk

... lake with at least 4 coach loads of tourists and hundreds of visitors. We have got rather snooty about our views, we like them wild and preferably empty! So we drove onto nearby Lake Moraine, which used to be featured on the back of the old $20 canadian bill and to my mind is much more dramatic and unspoilt than Lake Louise. We noticed that a thunderstorm was brewing, not surprisingly given the ...

... I was set on the task of finding some new pants for Mum - I succeeded (they looked great too!!). It seemed to be turning out to be a really nice day for our cruise on Lake Minnewanka. Before we even got to the water, we were surprised to see a big horn sheep (male) up close on our walk from the carpark and not too far away was the female. Mum and Dad were really lucky to have seen so much wildlife on their trip. We had a guide that ...

... and skiied all the way down there (a very nice green trail down - like the home runs at Falls Creek but 20 times as long) to try and find 4 sets of goggles and gloves for us all. With successful scrummaging through their boxes - it was end of season so there was a lot there - I caught the gondola back up and we were at last ready to ski. At 12.00 we headed onto the slopes and the whole family did very well, with everyone's skills coming back ...

... skied at Sun Peaks just past Kamloops on Tuesday. The snow was thigh deep powder. The girls have never seen anything like it and neither have I. Sun Peaks is an unbelievable mountain and with only one day there we did not do it justice. We could not ski the top part of the mountain due to limited visibility and temperatures around -15! Again another stressful drive with blizzard like conditions and AH at ...

Now everything in the NP from Jasper to Banff is really expensive, whether you want a cup of coffee, an excursion or accommodation, so needless to say we had to be careful where we decided to stay....this meant that KOA campsites & hostels were the order of the day.....not a bad thing, you start to view quality from a different perspective eg., basic hostel vs deluxe !! now anyone who has stayed at a hostel will know ...