Wow time goes by so fast sometimes. I have had a great couple of weeks, thats for sure. I have been so busy with work, friends, going out and getting out and seeing the places surrounding Banff.

Here is a picture of the street i now live in. You can't quite see my house in this picture because its behind the trees, i wanted to get the mountain in the pic so you can see where I live. my house is on the left behind some of those trees, its pretty awesome.









After my trip on the ATV, me and a guy I met from Quebec JD went for a hike along the hoodoo trail, which was really pretty. Here is me at one of the look outs on the trail.








On sunday night we all went out to Auroras for the 25cent beer night, which ended quite messy. Was a good night. The weirdest thing happened to me while I was there. There was a blond girl there who kept looking at me, and me at her because she looked so familiar. Turns out it was Rachelle Burley, a girl that I went to high school with back in Coffs, and who I haven't seen in years. Was really cool to run into someone I know on the other side of the world!

Here is a pic of Melissa, Tom me and Barbie at Auroras.

Then on the monday after that I did the discover Banff tour as locals get it for just $8, and I am a local as I have a job here :) so that was pretty cool. unfortunatly I was feeling like someone was hitting me in the head with a brick, but it was a nice day out. Was good, i went back to Lake Minnewanka, and it wasn't frozen this time, it was so pretty.


Here is me at Lake Minnewanka



On Wednesday I did a hike up around Lake Louise. It was really pretty, but I was quite sick for about 2 weeks because I was doing too much and not sleeping enough, so the hike was a little more difficult for me then usual, but I still enjoyed it.

Here is a pic of Lake Louise looking down from where we hiked up to, the top of the Bee-hive.







On the Thursday I did a tour called Discover Bears. It was a great day, we took a bus to Golden and went up the goldola at kicking horse, where we met grizzly bear Boo (left) a bear whose mother was illigally shot when he was a cub, and so he was taken in and cared for. Then on the way back from Golden we saw a black bear and her two cubs on the side of the road, but they ran too fast for any of us to get pics, they were so cute. Then we went up the goldola at Lake Louise and saw a grizzly and a black bear walking on the ski fields. So it was a great day seeing 6 bears!!


Here is me posing infront of Lake Louise. The lake is a pretty aqua colour which comes about because the water is from glacial melt. The colour is from what is called rock flour, as the glaciers melt parts of rock are dissolved in the water, which then flowes into the river, causing light to reflect and give us these amazing colours. Its really pretty, and as you get higher, the colour of the water appears more and more aqua.

Below are pictures of a heard of big horned sheep, and, male elk.





















Went up to the HI the other night for karaoke night. I wasn't planning on getting up to sing, but it ended up that I was one of the ones who got up the most.

Here is Brandi. me and JD singing enter sandman, me and JD also did an awesome version of Smells like teen spirit hahaha. Was a good night. going to work the next day was interesting as i started at 5:30 and was still drunk when I got to work.


On monday Brandi had a friend come and visit, and he had hired a car, so we went for a drive to Canmore, then Lake Louise again, then Moraine lake. To the left is Brandi, Cameron and me infront of lake Louise.










I climbed up ontop of a huge pile of rocks to take this pic. It's really pretty, but I am now wishing that I didn't wear thongs, as i sprained one foot, and cut a toe open on my other foot, but hey, i got the pretty picture.









Last night JD and I went to the movies to see Get smart, it was really funny, I have to say that it is worth seeing for those who wanted to know. So thats me pretty much up to date. Im leaving Banff to go see more of Canada in a few days, so ill keep you up to date with where I am.

Karyn