Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Banff

Today I post Banff.  Glacier National was amazing; Banff and the drive there was better.  Well, once we got out of Calgary anyway.  We took the gondola to the top of the mountain and did a little stair hiking up to a shed made in the 1800s by a man who hiked this mountain over 1000 times to get weather readings.  This was the ride . . .
 . . . And the view from the top.
We were learning new camera things as well, and the zoom is pretty good.  This is the Banff Springs hotel - it's pretty much a castle.  And the color of the water you see here is pretty close to what it really is.  Just a milky pure blue.  Beautiful! 
 Everywhere we went people volunteered to take our picture and we took theirs.  The sun was so bright that my eyes were crying.  Or maybe I was missing my kids.  You choose.
 
 Again, Mark was playing with the zoom, and got this picture of a mountain Spire.
The Banff hotel - view from the parking lot.  Pretty, eh? (gotta say that because it was Canada.)
 

2 comments:

blauritz said...

How fun to have someone from our family repeat the ride on the Sulphur Mountain gondola lift. I think the picture of the two of you at the top is taken almost at the exact spot where Mom took a picture of me. Thanks so much for sharing. Really fond memories are brought to the front.

Holly Emerson said...

And I need to go there, too.