Monday, August 23, 2010

August 23- Canmore, Alberta, Canada

BEACONING IS WORKING AGAIN!

We have departed Baniff after a three day stay in this beautiful city nestled between two mountains that actually rise straight up from downtown.  We made a visit to the Banff Springs Fairmont hotel and used our Presidents Club card to access the internet. We  hiked to the HooDoos, which is what they call irregularly shaped spires made from the sandstone of the mountains.   We ended up with some rain yesterday which not only   cleared out a lot of the smoke from the B.C. fires ( Good News) but  it also created a Hail storm in calgary where we were headed to. (Bad News) The rain kept us from some of the activities we had planned but we enjoyed the day of liesure after our hour and half walk to the HooDoo's.

We are now in Calgary where we spent the afternoon touring the site of the 1988 Olympic Village. We got up close and personal to the Bobsled/ Luge tracks and the Ski Jumps. WOW! This is our last night with my friend gail. She is heading South tomorrow and we are heading NorthEast towards Sakatoon.

We will update this with pictures when we can get them downloaded.

1 comment:

Garry and Carol Domnisse said...

Sounds like you guys are having a BAll.