Another fairly relaxed day really. Strolled into town to get shopping and chilled out the rest of the day in the hostel. We've extended our stay yet again but the hostel is so packed now with a load of people turning up for the Sunshine recruitment drive, which is one of the main ski resorts (as most people are here to find work for the ski season and one of the buildings has been completely taken over for interviewing) that during the 5 extra nights we're stayi...

Kelly and I spent completely different days in Banff today. There is a guy here from Montreal and we call him the French/Canadian Bruce Willis!! :) Well he's into hiking and mountain/ice climbing etc- very much the outdoors type. Well he got a few people together a few days back and they walked/climbed Mt.Rundle. We were talking to him yesterday and he had plans to get the group together and climb Mt.Cascade today and asked if Kelly and I wanted to do it too. We ...

Didn't get up to much today. Had a nice lie in and then got up and had a wander into town for a a bit. Headed back to the hostel late afternoon and chilled out on the sofas with my book. Feeling quite tired today despite getting up late and not really doing anything. We had nice weather again. I think it's supposed to get gradually colder now towards the end of the week.

Not a great deal to write about today- we headed to an internet cafe and spent 5 hours updating blogs, uploading photos, checking emails etc- very boring but glad it's all done as everyone back home is once more updated on our travels! It was around 6.30pm by the time we came out so we popped to Safeway for dinner bits and headed back. The only annoying thing is that the buses are only every 40 minutes. The good thing however is that we get free bus passes from ...

We went on the Horse Trail ride that we'd booked up today. It was the first time I had ever been on a horse and I absolutely loved it! We had to go into the pen and line up against the fence spread out and the guides brought our horses over to us. I felt a bit nervous at first because there was no longer a fence separating us and my horse's face was so close to mine. My horse was dark brown and he was called Dingo! (I can hear you now Dan) :) There were around 1...