Mom getting her feet wet in a cold mountian stream
The kids enjoying the refreshing splash in the mountian strem.
Our oldest boy looking out of the gondola in Banff.
The kids waiting for a Parisian Waffle in Canmore
A little cotton candy at the Canada Day celebration in Canmore.
A little Boston Pizza art to share with the world.
The view from our hotel balcony.
The view on our hotel balcony as we read books before bed.
Today started with a bang. Everyone was awake by 5:30....I guess that is the down fall of being asleep by 7:00 the night before. Instead of waiting 3.5 hours till the pool opened the family decided to get going to check out the mountains and get a start to our day.
We were exploring kananaskis village by 7:00 am. And on our way back to Highway 1 we came across a waterfall at the side of the road. It was awesome to see the kids put their feet in the water and try to come up with ideas as to why the water was so damn cold.
We also stopped the at a Texas gate and let the kids loose at figuring its' purpose. It took them a few minutes and some wild ideas like " a place where animals can hide under and get away from the cars." or "this is so I can balance on these.", and our middle child began to tightrope walk across the gate.
Then it was on to Banff and the sulphur mountain gondola. When we pulled in it was getting a bit busy, but we had almost no wait at the bottom and the top to get on the gondola. Both of us, Mom and Dad, were a bit worried as we started off but all the kids did great! Our middle one was crazy excited and was yelling and twitchy eyes. We were not the most prepared for the fact that the weather was going to be colder up top, we forgot our youngest one's hoodie. And he just kept saying "burrrr, cold. Burrrr, cold."
Then it was off to Canmore for some Canada Day celebrations. We walked around town, ate ice cream, ate cotton candy, ate Parisian waffles...and even ate birthday cake. The town was alright too. Then believe or not we even ate lunch.
Then we checked into the Best Western in Canmore and proceeded to go straight to the pool.
Meh.
The pool was alright, would be even better if the kids were a few years older. The was no shallow end and the waterslide launched the kids out at Mach 2. But the best part of the hotel was the balcony. We read books on it, we ate snacks on it, and at 10:30 we even were able to watch the fireworks. It was a great end to the day.
Except we then watched some bad rom com on cable way to late and we are currently regretting we stayed up for it.
Overall the hotel rates:
Best Western in Canmore
Room 3/5 (clean and roomy, but a bit old and dated)
Pool 4/5 (it is still. A good pool, slide and hot tub. But not quite suited to younger kids)
Location 5/5 (on the main drag in town and nice and close to restaurants and grocery stores)
Hotel 3/5 (we would stay here again but would likely look somewhere else next time for a place with a cool pool)
Tomorrow we are off to Big Cedar and Revelstoke.
