Journey to Banff

On Friday 11th January we had a very teary departure from Brisbane airport our destination Sydney. After spending what felt like ages (it was only 2hrs) anxiously waiting to board our flight to Canada the reality of the adventure that we were about to embark on finally hit us. It was a weird feeling for the both of us. This was something that we both wanted so badly but I guess the realization of what we had given up back home had hit us, at least we knew we would never be giving up on each other.

We boarded the plane for a grueling 14 hour flight. I enjoyed most of the flight managing to get some sleep, unfortunately Kyle was not so lucky. He managed to keep himself amused with the vast range of movies they offer and all the meals that they kept offering him, he thought he was in heaven!

We arrived in Vancouver at 8am on Friday 11th January, 2008 after a long flight we were both so tired but still had 3hrs to kill before our flight to Calgary. We spent the time walking around the airport, noticing their weird automatic flush toilets, and by sleeping. Once boarding our short flight to Calgary the plane had barely left the runway before Kyle and I were both asleep.

Landing in Calgary was such a relief as most of our long journey was behind us, all we had left was an hour and half transfer to Banff our final destination!

We arrived in Banff at about 6pm and were both really exhausted, no time for sightseeing, just time for food and bed.