Deters' Dynamics: BANFF Canada - Day Three

Day Three - Already. We woke up to this gorgeous view outside of our hotel window.

It appeared to be a nice day!

Today we had to scoot down to breakfast again and then we were off to a Lake Minnewanka Cruise.

We loaded on to the tour bus and headed to Lake Minnewanka.

Trying out the panoramic view on the iPhone6

Lake Minnewanka Panormaic View

Up by the bathrooms

Right side full of trees

Left side destroyed by a "controlled burn" in the 1980s

Our Captain

Our tour guide

Grizzly veruss black bear

Taking it all in

Part of a legend. A captain claims to have found a sea monster and that is what attracted tourists.

Devil's Gap

Lake Minnewanka sign

Sisters

That was a fun time. When we got back to the hotel we went to Rundle Lounge for a bite to eat, but we also discovered the liquor store and the convenience store right across the parking lot. This started our "afternoon snack" time each of the following afternoons. Lisa always set it up for me. She put a towel down so we wouldn't get the beds dirty and then she'd divvy up some chips and pour a glass of wine. We were "living large" as my Dave would say.

Our actual snack was rice cakes but look at these flavors.

Look at this flavor

We didn't try these, I just took the photos of the crazy flavors.

When we got back to our room and we were eating our snack, Lisa saw this beautiful rainbow - again right outside our hotel window.

Rainbow starting to fade

Rainbow

That evening Pam and Mark had invited us to go out to eat in town. We shared a cab and we went to a Buffalo something place. Lisa and Mark had caribou, Pam had Halibut, and I had steak. It was sooooooo good. At first Pam wanted us to have a drink that she enjoyed. So we all ordered that drink. It was okay. She loved it. Our bartender had never heard of it before so it's quite possible it would be much better somewhere else.