.......is that you can hop off to Banff for lunch. Did just that today. Returning from swimming, I said to B, "let's go to Banff for lunch. Christmas and the Epiphany are over, I've 'taken down' Christmas, washed, ironed and stowed away the linens, packed up the tree, the ornaments and the outside and inside lights and decorations. Darling, I need a break". Why not, he replied. So we did.
What a drive it is, heading towards the beautiful Rockies. They loom majestically ahead and suddenly, the sky drops, clouds appear right above you and you're surrounded by them. 'The Three Sisters' are on your left, just before Canmore, and beauty, beauty, beauty overwhelms you. Watched 'River of No Return' with Robert Mitchum and Marilyn Munroe, which was filmed around Banff, again the other day and tried to see if I could recognize any of the peaks. Couldn't, of course, there being so many.
We always end up at the Banff Springs Hotel because the view is unbelieveable! Door-to-door, it's only an hour and 15 minutes. We used to go to Montreal for lunch often and that was a little more than two hours. This drive is easy.
"You've come on a perfect day," said our waitress. "The craziness is over." She was right. We were about the only patrons in the place. Valet parking would have been free, the jockies were so generous, but for the fact that I told B to give the guy $10. "Gee sir, that's so generous!"
We were home by 3:30. What a way to start 2013.
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