Weeeelllllllll, as you can see from the million pics I put up in FB, we had a blast in Canada.
Really.
No, I mean REALLY!
Have you been there ?
For those of us that come from the warmer climes, the novelty of being in -13 and surrounded by snow, is amazing, and so PRETTY. Although I must say all the trees and snow did start to all look the same after the 7th day.
We did it all though, the skiing, the dog-sledding (which was my best) and the ski-dooing, and the sleigh ride, the Ice Carving competition, the Lake walk, the widlife tour, and the Ice Canyon walk (also brilliant) to see all those frozen waterfalls.
It is such a different life in Canada. What was weird, was driving back to the airport we saw millions of houses built literally on top of each other -for miles and miles. The houses were not small, but they must have been less than 3 meters from the next house on each side, and that confused us. Either the land is very expensive, or all outdoors stuff is done elsewhere, and not at home.
Most of them didn't really have gardens, or gardens as small (if not smaller) than the one I have here in London!.
I didn't have time to ask why, but will try find a friendly Canadian to ask some day.
We expected everyone to live in big houses with big gardens cos there is so much land around.
Another brilliant thing I learnt is that in Banff you have to have proved you have worked there for at least 5 years before you are allowed to buy a property there. You also have to prove you intend continuing living there too - which means no rich expat / foreigner can just come in and buy houses there. I think that's fantastic. They should do that in all the beautiful spots of the world, or at least allocate 50 % of the land to that type of policy!
I wasn't keen on the ski-dooing, (snow mobile) but loved the dogs.
The sleigh ride was on my birthday and we went along a frozen lake to get up close to a frozen waterfall. They are blue, the frozen waterfalls, cos of the Glacier colours/ nutrients in the water. Some are even a little green.
It was lovely to have 12 uninterrupted days with my lover. Kinda like a pre- honeymoon I guess. Seeing as if we ever had a real honeymoon it'd probably be WITH kids.
On Valentines we took a break and just lazed around all day. Ordered room service and swam in the hot pools and sauna for a while - sheer bliss.
The jetlag took a while to get over, and coming home has been much better. Kids are back to school today, and I am finally getting parework done, and things sorted. Finished abour 12 loads of washing and now have to get to sorting the house out.
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