Weekend in Canmore –  January 16 & 17, 2016

We rented 2 rooms in Canmore for the weekend – we stayed at the Ramada because they had a triple water slide – it didn’t take Bill and Steph very long to figure out how they could use the water slide as a luge – by giving a giant push and picking up lots of speed-  they all came spitting out the slide at once and would create a giant tidal wave in the small pool!  You could hear screaming and giggling the entire time they were fighting each other down the slide –  Auntie Deb did not participate, but enjoyed watching them and peoples’ reactions as the water flew out of the pool…

Saturday morning Steph and Lou were able to enjoy a nice morning ski and a little adult time alone – while Bill and I kept Payton and Ethan back at the hotel for some pool play.  

I had read in one of Steph’s trail books that you could ski from Canmore to Banff and decided this was something I really wanted to do, so Bill and I met up with Ted around 1:00 at the trail head in Canmore and skied to Banff.  Ted had already did an hours skate ski and decided he was going to run along with us as we skied -  It took us a little over 2 hours – I worked very hard to keep up to Ironman Ted and speedy Bill on his new skis.  The boys were nice enough to stop every so often and let me catch up.   It was a pretty ski and I enjoyed listening to the river that ran along side the trail –

Steph, Lou and the kids picked us up in Banff.  We snuck into the Banff Springs Hotel to change into some dry clothes – and headed back to Canmore for a nice dinner.  

Sunday morning we got up and hiked into Grassi Lake – nice to visit the site where Steph and Lou got married.   We got to walk around downtown Canmore – stopped for a warm drink and a little shop at Mountain Rocky Soap Company.   

Bill is still under the weather and has a bad cough, so we are going to lay low for a few days before we hit the road again.