Day 92/365 - Calgary to Banff

Due to the time difference we were all awake at 6:30am and feeling pretty hungry! We hit the road at 10am, after loading out luggage in to the car...oh yeah, the car! Last time I wrote we were still on the plane. We picked up our beast of a 'People Carrier' at the airport, and played tetris with our 6 large suitcases...and several slightly smaller hang luggage bags...a few of which needed to go in the middle of the car, between us all. It was cosy!

So, yes, anyway, we hit the road, to go meet a lovely lady from Breasclete in Lewis who has lived in Canada for 48 years now, but when she was in Lewis she knew Matthew's Dad and Aunt. We went to see her cute wee house, which was full of photos from Lewis of landscapes, and family members...one of which is now relating to me distantly by marriage...#dontyoujustlovelewis. Then went to Humpty's for our breakfast, where I ordered proper Canadian pancakes with bacon and maple syrup for the first time. I soon discovered that portion sizes in Canada are bigger than the UK. My orange juice was more than a pint, I'm sure, and my plate came with 3 massive pancakes, and bacon. Yum!!

Once breakfast was over we took some group photos, said farewell to Donna and began our journey to Banff. It was pretty much a straight road with the Rockies ahead of us the whole time, and only took an hour. We checked in to our hotel and headed for Sulphur Mountain to get the Gondola ride to the top. We could've walked...but we're not crazy, we're lazy. The view from the top was absolutely AMAZING (see above photo)!

When we got back to the hotel, Matthew's Dad, himself and myself sat at the hotel bar for a drink. Himself (Matthew) got the most disgusting drink ever created...It contained 'Clamato' juice, which is tomato juice with clam sauce in it...#barf, garlic tobasco, worcestershire sauce, vodka, lemon juice, and salt and pepper, accompanied by a prawn and a pickled bean. One sip was enough to put Calum and I off, but Matthew had two of these disgusting things.

We went out for dinner in the evening, devouring giant portions again, and we were all very keen for bed due to it being 4am in the UK once we'd finished dinner. Very hard to comprehend!

There are so many more photos to go along with this, and it was difficult to choose just one for the blog, but I hope you like my choice!