Lovely sunny day yet again! Took a free bus ride to our third activity - horse riding! Was so excited and it didnt disappoint! We arrived to find a dozen or so male horses kept in small paddock all saddled up, but looking quite sad! I noticed that there was no grass nor hay for them. We were then asked to line up against the fence and the guides led out two horses at a time. I was first to mount! I had a white horse named Navahoe, who was so well tempered! Amy ...

Went to one of our booked trips today as the weather held out, we decided to go canoeing on Bow river. Amy didn't want to steer the boat so she sat in the front seat. I wasn't confident with steering as I'd never done it before, but gave it go! It was so much more difficult than I thought it would be! It was hard enough to paddle upstream let alone steer aswel! My arms ached for a while after! We then went to the Banff Gondola as it was a fairly clear day. The ...

Set an early alarm to catch the 09:30 GreyHound to Lake Louise today. Was about a 30minute ride away. Once arriving, we had a long walk up the mountain by road side to get to the lake. It took a little over an hour to walk, but once there - it was well worth the hike! I'd seen Lake Louise in pictures and had wanted to visit, but I was speachless as to just how magnificent the scenery was! The colours in the lake was nothing like I'd seen and the deep snow ontop o...

Dad rang this morning which was really nice to hear from him. Was a little choked after speaking with him. Booked up a three part activity today - horse riding, canoeing and the Banff Gondola. Walked to Bow Falls againg today, but this we walked along the other side of the river. It ws great to see the falls from another perspective. We ventured more so along the bank and saw some amazing scenery. Spent a good few hours just walking around. The weather was even...

Recovered from our long coach journey by having a lye in today. Got up around 09:00 to find that my feet and ankles were still swollen from the long arse coach ride and that I still ached. We extended our stay here at the Hi Banff Alpine hostel for two more nights, after going to the Castle Mountain Wilderness hostel for three nights as we feel there is alot to see here in Banff. While we booked up another two nights we enquired how to get to Castle Mountain fro...