Blogs from Lake Louise, Alberta, Canada, North America - page 14

The first stop after leaving Banff, besides the hearty breakfast of artery clogging proportions, was Lake Louise which is one of the most famous sites around Banff national park. Featured is a spectacular view that can be seen on various stamps, papers, currency and other canuck approved things. Besides the site of the vast lake and the overshadowing mountains, Lake Louise is know for the imposing Chalet. Another place for the rich and famous to hang out, this monster of luxury has quite possibly the best view any hotel could ask for. The gift shop/museum inside is not meant for poor folk such as myself, as some of the more exquisite jade and other semi precious rock carvings are sold at a bank draining price. Sometime I'll grab one I'm sure. Legally I mean. The drive ... read more

Greatings from my snowy mountain top. Yes that's right it has started to snow quite a bit lately. We actually have snow on the ground and it seems like it never stops snowing all day long. The aussies are absolutely loving it and I love watching them. They walk around with there heads in the air watching the snow fall all the while getting snowflakes in there eyes. It's very cute, not very smart but cute. Anyways yesterday was my first day off so my friend Stacie and I hoped on the Brewster bus and headed in to Banff for the day. We were told that being in the middle of no where can drive you crazy after a while so fearing a mental break down we decided that a day of shopping was just what ... read more

Hey All! I am finally getting a chance to get to a computer after a busy week of orientation. I arrived on sunday and as we drove closer and closer to Lake Louise the scenry started reminding me more and more of the kokanee beer bottle label. Just mountains everywhere and yes it has been snowing here but just flurries everyday nothing to big. Oh and Aunt Diane you can tell your fellow employees that the lake is all glacier water so you definatley can't swim in it now and in the summer you don't want to be in there for longer then 15 minutes. I've already met a ton of people because of orientation and no one is really local. Lots of people from Ontario (I even met a guy from Whitby AND he went ... read more

Ok, so the weather caught up with us..... We woke up to rain and freezing cold. So much for a day of climbing! Oh, well, we decided to take a day trip to Calgary, get some groceries and run some errands. We stopped for lunch at a bar/concert venue that turned out to have fantastic sandwiches. Calgary also apparently shuts down on Sundays, so after lunch we went back "home". As we were rained out of our original climbing plan, we came up with plan B. If the weather sucks tomorrow, we are moving on to Jasper for a pit stop at the Columbia Icefields and the hotsprings. If it's sunny, we're sticking around for some climbing for one more day in Lake Louise. From Jasper we are heading straight for Kamloops, stopping for sleep and ... read more

Hi everyone We've had problems accessing the internet as been so busy doing exciting things!!!! (Where we are today we cant add photos as they are charging $5 for 15 mins so will do the best of them in an entry when we can.) We left Red Deer and drove to Banff via the Columbia Icefields - what can we say apart from the fact that the scenery was absolutely stunning and we only hope that the photos we took can do it justice. In Banff we took part in White Water Rafting, took the Gondola to the top of the mountain at sunset and also tried the hot springs. these had changed quite a lot from 1942 when Geoff visited them. We also visited Lake Louise and Moraine Lake two absolutely beautiful bodies of water. ... read more