4 & 5) our welcome amenity from management – that’s elk meat to the left and the red stuff that looks like cheese cake is actually a berry cheese

6) the view from our room at Banff

7) we enjoy welcome our amenity before dinner; 8) me on the river down in the Village

9) the hotel even has a 5 pin bowling alley; 10) the inside ia all very Moorish Castle in style

13) sunrise from our room; 14) a zoomed look at the mountain peaks

15) we saw lots of wildlife on our travels – here is a mountain goat at the top of the gondola; 16) here is Alvin in the same spot … I don’t know where Theodore or Simon were

18) we saw this black bear right on 1A driving from Banff to Lake Louise … people were actually out of their cars in amazement (and stupidity!) taking pictures … dumb, dumb, dumb; 19) our room at Lake Louise


20) this is the view from our room at Lake Louise

21) G and I paddled the lake in the afternoon; 22) so pretty

23) wow, we paddled a long way on the lake; 24) I SO miss dragonboating this summer!

 
25) we dinned in the Fairview Dinning Room; 26) where G had bison tartare

27)  for perspective, the water at Lake Louise is 3°C … cold as a witches tit … and yet this lass was in; 28) beautiful

29) the view from our room at 5:15AM

30) this is a real picture … I did not photoshop anything … the lake is that still and calm first thing in the morning … STUNNING!

31) this is a shot of the two voyageur canoes from above shown in the regular view from our room first thing in the morning


32) I know it actually looks like a backdrop but it ain’t … G was there sitting at the edge of the lake on the rocks

33) me and the lake at daybreak