Kananaskis & Radium with Phil

Our first weekend off while Phil was here Graham, Phil, Kirsten & I spent friday night with Jax & Joel at the Delta in Kanasakis. We were lucky to get a good room at the lodge wthanks to jax, and we quickly made ourselves home with cheese, crackers & appletons reserve. We had an epic diner session at the restuarant where we managed to clear it of all other customers with our ruckus.
The following morning Phil, Kirsten and I carried on to Radium for a dip in the hot pools. Once again we came across Bighorn Sheep on the road and we even found them on the baseball pitch in the middle of town!

Remnants of the massive forest fire this valley

Phil and myself chillin out at Olive Lake

Rangi the roadtrip beast

Pretty view

Lamb roast anyone??

This is the same spot Kirsten and I went Dog Sledding in winter

Bighorns on the Baseball pitch

Kananaskis Valley

Kirsten's Birthday

We had a big day planned for Kirsten's Birthday. It actually started the night before with a surprise cookies & cream birthday blizzard cake, it was all kinds of deliciousness!

Jax & Joel met up with Kirsten, Phil and I for lunch downtown at the Metropolitan, afterwards we enjoyed some retail therapy in Bankers Hall at the designer stores. In the afternoon we visited the Calgary Zoo to see the animals, where I was almost sprayed on by a Siberian tiger! Bloody cats.

In the evening Kirsten, Phil and I went to the Brad Paisley Concert for 4 hours of fantastic country music. The two warm up artists were awesome as well: Justin Moore, Darius Rucker (Hooty & the Blowfish lead singer).

The whole day was a hell of an experience.

Blizzard Cake

Calgary Tower Downtown

Muskox

Great Grey Owl

African Animals

Cheeky Squirrel having an icecream

Brad Paisley Concert:

Jonn'y Visit

Mid September we met up with Jonny and his parents in Banff for a day. They were travelling around western Canada for a few weeks with some family and friends. We enjoyed a day of walking around the town seeing the sights, visiting Lake Minawanka and enjoying a nice dinner and locally brewed beer in the evening.

It was nice seeing familiar faces and accents and we all had a fun day.

The Lovely Couple

 Jonny and Myself

Lake Minawanka

 The Crew

Cheeky Squirrel With His Cone

 One Of The Many Fantastic Views Around Banff

Day Trip To Drumheller

Early September Jax & Joel met up with us for a short day trip to the Badlands in Drumheller.  After discovering the new meaning of greasy breakfast at 'Humpty's' we headed North.  The town of Drumheller itself was a dive but the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology was something else! It houses the worlds largest collection of dinosaur bones in the middle of the Badlands.

T-Rex Skeleton

 Albertasaurus Having Lunch

 Badlands

Royal Tyrrel Museum of Palaeontology