Tuesday, October 10th
Last night we ended up at Tony Roma’s for dinner. It was already 9.30, but we were welcome and the thanksgiving menu would even still be available (soup or salad, turkey dinner, pumpkin pie). The waiter brought us the starters, when he came back to tell us they just ran out of turkey, but that if we wanted to order something else, he’d give us the starters and the drinks (I had a delicious Big Rock Honey Brown mmmmm) for free for the inconvenience! And he’d even still throw in the pumpkin pie dessert 🙂 Nico had chicken and I had ribs (they are famous for their ribs) and although I ordered a regular slab, the cook gave me a full slab, again for the inconvenience LOL! Because the meat almost melted on your tongue like butter, I even managed to eat it all 😉 Then we got the pumpkin pie with a bit of ice cream, which it usually didn’t come with, but the waiter thought he’d give us that anyway. So we had a super delicious and super big meal for the price of the two main courses, not even 40 bucks hahaha! We of course thanked him for the special treatment and gave him a good tip 😉
Back at the B&B we were so tired, that we went to sleep very soon after.
This morning we had another lovely breakfast, with eggs, bacon and some fried potatoes this time, and a deer just walked by the window. Sweet! That apparently happens often in this street. Today we planned on making a longer drive, to Lake Louise, Golden, Radium and back to Banff. But we didn’t exactly make it that far. We were both very tired today, and we just took things slow. We took the 1A, the Bow Valley Parkway, to Lake Louise, where wildlife is often spotted. We kept staring in the woods for some unusual movements, but no luck. On the Parkway we stopped at Johnston Canyon and went in for a little bit for some pics and filming. We visited Lake Louise and sat there for a while. We didn’t want to do a whole lot more, so we skipped Moraine Lake and went on to Yoho Park for Emerald Lake. Last time it was raining and we couldn’t see any mountains on the way up nor at the lake. And now it was all clear, so we were excited to see that beautiful lake again in its full glory! We took the 1 west to Field and before we entered Yoho, we saw something near the railroad about 200m from the road: a black bear! It was pretty far away, but I filmed him and could zoom in a lot. Our first bear!! Then we saw a car coming up on the rails: park rangers scaring the bear off, because many get killed on the railroad.
We continued the drive and didn’t recognize the way up, it was so beautiful now and the lake itself too! We passed the bridge and sat at the waterside for a while, it was so peaceful. When the Japanese would finally shut up or go away anyway (those busloads of Japanese are usually pretty loud). We drove back the same way, and saw that bear again! He probably returned shortly after and continued to look for food there… let’s hope he’s still alive. We drove to Banff over the Bow River Parkway again, and again we didn’t see any wildlife there.
Back at the B&B I slept for two hours (I still don’t feel well, hopefully I’m just tired) and we didn’t go out anymore, just grabbed some things (cereal, fruit) at the B&B. Tomorrow we’ll spend some more time in town and at 4-5pm we’re expected at Anneke and Gerard’s in Canmore 🙂