We didn’t spend too much time in Mom and Dad’s trailer,
but we were so glad we had it! It went down to –2 at night and that would have been too cold in the tent.
Remind us not to travel on the last day of a long weekend again! The dumping station took over an hour and then we got in to a traffic jam on Highway 1 and were going 20km per hour. It was a long trip home! We left at 11am and got home at 5pm and it should have only been a 3 hour trip.
Did you know that Banff was founded around this hot spring? Well it was! We came and did a tour and had a nice walk around but the weather was not cooperating and we were all quite cold. 
I have fallen behind in my blogging so I will try and catch up soon.
When we were staying in Banff we went for a swim at the hotsprings in the morning and then for a hike at Johnstone Canyon. You see, we had bought some Trail Mix and Ed really wanted to be on a trail when we ate it.
Johnstone Canyon is beautiful, incredible and wonderful place and would be even nicer if there weren’t so many people that felt the same way! It was a crowded walk and the trail was narrow and we all wanted to stop and take pictures which backed things up so it wasn’t the relaxing hike that we thought it would be. Oh well, we got some great pictures and got some exercise so that we could eat more smores!
Our first full day in Banff was Canada Day. What a great place to spend Canada Day. It just felt right somehow! I suppose Ottawa would have been even better but this was awesome! The grounds are beautiful there, and check out the beaver. It was from the closing ceremonies of the Olympics, pretty cool!
It started with a pancake breakfast and music and face painting. It was a really long wait for face painting at least 2 hours but it was worth the wait! Check out these two!
We went back to the campground for lunch and a little break and then off again to see the parade. We took the bus from our campsite which was very cool and an easy way to get downtown. No searching for parking! The parade here in Red Deer does not allow throwing of candy but they do in Banff. Lots of fun!
See the flower in the horse poop? A clown came and put that flower there but it did not help the smell at all! And then the truck ran over it which created a lot of stir in the crowd, the poor driver of the truck had no idea what was going on. Adam insisted that I take a picture of this truck, I guess when you are 7 this is very cool!
Aren’t they looking patriotic?!? The kids made those shirts at a friends birthday party. Great timing!
Look who lost another tooth? It will be a long summer of no corn on the cob!
He is super cute though!
We left for our holidays on Wednesday and headed to Banff to meet some friends for some camping. We arrived to find a bit of a weird camp ground. We were at Tunnel Mountain 2 and all the sites were parallel and had small gravel pads with picnic table and fire pit. At first we were a bit put off by it but it didn’t take long to get used to it and it really was fine. The scenery was amazing and we really didn’t go to spend a lot of time at the campsite!
Here is the before:
(She is not happy with me because I burnt the back of her arm with the curling iron. I am still feeling awful about it!)
Here is the during
Here is the after
