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This is the May long weekend, formerly known as Victoria Day weekend.
Friday, post work, I went camping with two of my friends. We had lots of fun! There was tent building, eating, fire building, wood scavenging (which is illegal), ice cream eating, ice cream losing, horse poo collecting, reading archie comics, and finally being up all night listening to the obscenely loud music of people across the campground. The demise of our two night experience was acquiring new neighbors on the second day. We were planning to stay two nights (two of us were, anyway) and with campsite companions who show up in a 5th wheel, as well as an Escalade towing a boat who also built a rather large tent on our campsite,… we bailed, okay? You think we were being judgmental about their material possessions? No. It was two couples… parents, their son, and his wife. And they were trashy. No… really trashy. BUDWEISER IS NOT THE NAME OF A CLOTHING LINE trashy. With an abundance of interesting and endearing sayings like, “you dumb-shit,” and “you should just take an ax to your wife.” One of their most esthetically charming modifications to the campsite appeared soon after their arrival. They hung plastic bags half filled with their beer cans to the trees in what they assumed to be their campsite, but what was really not so much the case.
Luckily, my knight in shining blue vehicular armor came by for a visit and we packed up our stuff soooo fast and bailed. He suggested he and I spending a night in a hotel in Banff would be more pleasant than sleeping in a tent in a gravel pit and was absolutely right. Especially with our room AND hotel upgrade!!!
This is the second time we’ve stayed at one of the Banff Lodging Company’s inns. They are reasonably priced for the quality they deliver. Their location is what we love the most. Our preferred Inn was totally booked for tonight so when I made the online reservation yesterday I did it for a well priced room in the neighboring building. All we need is a place to sleep for the night while we’re hanging out and trekking amongst the mountains, right? Right. So, I’m not sure if they really overbooked the other hotel, or if they just love us as returning guests, but we totally got upgraded to the Premium-DELUXE-room in the Inn we love the mostest. It’s fabulous. It’s nicer than home. The bathroom is huge! With a jacuzzi and a stand-up shower. We even get a flat-screen tv (the other rooms have interesting relics of the 1980s). Very, very cool. Also, not the first totally lucky thing to have happened to us today (think being boxed-in in a parking lot and having an adjacent stall parker get in their van to leave just as we walk up to our car awesomeness).
We ate at the Grizzly House late this afternoon. We had fondue, and hot-rock cooked meat. It was delicious and so fun. It was more of an event than a meal. We went for the four course as a treat, the Toblerone dessert fondue was a good way to end it. Yum. Oh.. and the sauces, like holy yum.
Tonight I bought a rainbow calcite pendant. It was expensive. Is it a real gemstone? Isn’t it? I don’t know. Is it set and stainless steel and look totally awesome on me? Why yes, it does.
Tomorrow? We stay in the park for a while, hangin’ round, taking photos and hiking about.
Right now, I’m off to locate some snack food and then have a bath in the jetted tub. Yay!
