6th August - Travelling to Banff

A long day of travel.  Up at 5am to get to the airport for our early morning flight to Calgary.  Then we boarded a coach at Calgary airport to get to Banff.  Arrived mid-afternoon to glorious sunny weather and stunning views:

We checked into our hotel (the Fox) with is very pretty and has some natural hot springs in the basement around which they've built an enormous hot tub/pool.  Denise and I will definitely be checking that out at some point!  The glass surrounded area in the centre of the courtyard in the photo below is an opening down to the hot spring.  So you can sit in there at night and look up at the stars!  

We took a quick walk into the centre of downtown Banff and had dinner at a very nice place called the Canadian Grille.  We have been treated to a wide array of weather since we've got here: everything from really hot sun, to high winds, to a spectacular thunderstorm last night after we'd gone to bed.