Monday, March 31, 2008

Banff National Park

Chad and I took a mini-vacation these past few days and toured Banff and Lake Louise. We had a great time exploring and relaxing - a great balance! We didn't do a ton of hiking, just walked around the towns, and little walks at scenic stops - but we did hike from the gondola to the summit, which was fun. The towns and the mountains were beautiful! After our Banff tour it was off to Calgary to visit Tisha, Jeff, and family. It was so nice to visit with them - we had a great time!!

Matthew spent time with Grammie at home and had a blast! Four days away was just the right amount...long enough to feel as though we were away, but not too long that I was preoccupied with getting home to Matthew :-)

View from above - wow! We took this picture just after we got off the gondola.
Chad looking up at the weather station at the peak - if you look closely you can see the boardwalk that we hiked to get to the summit.

At the top of Mt. Sulpher :-)
We took the Bow Valley Parkway to Lake Louise instead of the TransCanada and saw this coyote. We also saw some deer...

Mel at Lake Louise - someday we'll go back in the summer to really appreciate it!
Chad at Lake Louise
Lake Minewanka was very pretty, even though it was frozen.

Seeing these three goats made Chad's trip! A park ranger even tried to scare the goats off the road, but they wouldn't budge!

Chad took advantage of the goats being preoccupied with salt licking and got a great close up! Too bad he bumped the cepia mode on the camera...

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Looks like you guys had a fun trip! Did you miss your boys? You look great Mel! Where's the baby bump?