Bow River

Yesterday was a nice day, with the weather not being too cold, so we decided to take a stroll down Bow River before it completely freezes over.  Its glacial water, so its that bright blue colour again, and it never rises above 10oC!


Further down the river we came to the Bow Falls (pictured below), which were running rapid.  Apparently, a number of famous movie stars have been filmed being swept over these falls in the 1950s, including Marilyn Monroe.  Of course, we didn't try and reenact these scenes!  Nick commented that he was slowly turning into Ronald by stopping to ask passersby if he could take their photo... with their camera not his I hasten to add!

From the falls you can see the Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel poking through the trees, our next destination.  The Fairmont is huge, and Nick wanted to know how much afternoon tea would be there... a mere $38 each!

Later that evening, after a tasty dinner/feast of bangers and mash prepared by Nick, we went out with the french couple from our apartment.  We hustled them at pool, table football and shuffle board... 3-0 to GB!  Of course we weren't being competitive.  Shuffle board is quite similar to curling, but with a small table covered in sand rather than the ice rink.  The idea is to bounce the small flat metal ball off the side of the board, with the aim of getting it stop in one of the boxes at the end of the table to score points, without it falling off the end and scoring 0 points.  Finally we ended the night with a pint in the 'English' pub, which had too many Liverpool football scarves for my liking.