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Surprise! Another hike! My ass was killing me on this one. It was either a 4 or 5km hike, and we gained 1km of elevation. So in practice it took about three hours to go up it.

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This is the exact spot where I think I lost my camera battery. It wasn’t a huge deal since I had two to begin with, since I’m a sucker for Canon’s and they always break on me. Now I only have one.

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Very steep. Very high up. So high that there’s snow on the ice peaks now!

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The view was breathtaking. Of course the photos don’t do it any justice, but I tried to capture the moment the best possible.IMG_7596IMG_7607

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Coming down the mountain was just as difficult, since it was so steep, even sliding on my bum seemed dangerous and I was going to roll the whole way down and break my bones in half. I didn’t notice that Scott took a photo of me. But this is what I basically looked like the whole way going down. Strangers coming up the mountain who were incredibly out of breath, even stopped and grabbed my hand for support because I was so scared and shuffling type steps of a 120 year old woman on flat land.

THEN WE WENT TO BANFF!!! YAY! Wait until the 6th, and final vacation post to see those photos!

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Version four of my vacation post? When will it ever end you ask? NEVAH. Okay. Actually you know what? I have no idea when the vacation posts will end, because I’m just grabbing 7-10 photos as we go until I reach the end of the large file folder filled with my photos. Hope ya don’t mind! Don’t forget to click and enlarge the photos.

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We headed out to a suspension bridge that didn’t end up looking anything like what we had imagined. There is a train tour that we could have rode on, but it only ran on certain days so we didn’t get to hop on one. Since Newfoundland’s railway system stopped in about 1986, I don’t think I’ve ever been on a train. I’ve always fantasized about them because I remember living on one street back home in St. John’s, right in front of a train track. Of course there was a huge fence about 6 feet tall, so my Dad used to put me up on his shoulders when I was a toddler and watch the train go by. Apparently we were related to the engineer that drove it. Something like that. I don’t remember the story. So every time I see a train go by, I just reminss about the days where Daddio and I watching them together. Hee!

We’re playing around the railway tracks a bit in these next few photos:

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Scott decided to monkey his way down this steep hill to get to the almost/bottom drop of the cliff. Look how tiny he is compared to the train track … tower.

Finally we decided to mosey on our way and find a spot to do a winery tour. Drove around and saw this Mediterranean looking one, but what we really had in mind was Quail’s Gate. Boyfriend’s friend recommended this one, and boy was it a great choice. Beautiful spot, amazing food and wine. We were treated like Royalty there. It was great that we were the only people there. We reserved our table for 5PM right after the wine tour, and wine newbies like us – we had some terrific professional servers that definitely helped us out in that subject. I would have taken my camera out a bit more, but it seemed too fancy. I wish I could have shown you the food. It was so delicately placed on the plate, and it was sooo good tasting that I literally wanted to shove it all in my throat. But not to worry, I was lady like and used a fork and knife.. and sometimes even my spoon. We had a 3 course meal and ended up staying there for three hours! We learned so much, and now my favorite wine is definitely Pinot Noir from the Stewart Family. Mmm I can still taste it.

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How beautiful is that scenery?

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The next day we spent the whole day in the car, trying to make it to Lake Louise. We eventually made it the next day (I think?) and of course, felt obligated for more photo taking!

Oh hello Louise.

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Went a little camera happy at this place. I’m sure you can tell why. Look at the gorgeous color of that water! IMG_7524IMG_7558

Take a photo of me, please!

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The lookout on Mount Fairview. (More coming on that Mountain over on post #5).

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Reverting back to my second post in my vacation … The next day we decided to walk up a trail next to the Hollywood Penticton sign.

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I remember not wanting my photo taken here, hence the stance I am in. Lovely.

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We then hopped in the car and went out again seeking adventure. (He doesn’t like his photo being taken heh heh)

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Saw a run down fruit stand that may or may still be in operation. It’s difficult to take photos of something like this, especially going highway speed in a car. Shucks!IMG_7086

Not many more photos to show you from the other hike, because I mean c’mon I’ll be doing BC/Alberta posts for the whole month of September if I add everything. Eegad. So the next day, we headed out to a mountain that I really don’t remember the name of because I’m terrible with stuff like that. Just give me a visual and I’ll know what I’m remembering back on.

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Funny story behind this 2 or 3 hour hike that we did. There were wild cows on the loose. Well, they were tagged. But they got spooked by us and there was a forest around us with a big cliff drop on either side, for only about 500 meters. Little did we know that the whole hoard (okay just 2 lol), of them wanted to join the rest of the pack (4) who were ahead of us. We were kind of stranded because we didn’t know whether or not we should pass them. They were just staring us down and moo-ing. Eventually we scrambled up the forest and tried to shoo them past us, but they weren’t having it. Staredown it was. We just continued to break our way through the mini-forest and climb up a small hill to get to another path that lead us to the car. Whewf.

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See what I mean? Look at those cows behind me (top right).

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Top of the mountain, once again! Hallelujah. I have this photo (without Scott or I in the photo) as my desktop background at work. I haven’t edited any of these photos to make them look as awesome as they did in person, because quite frankly I was too lazy to go through 850+ of them and decipher which ones to edit. So I left them. To rot. Kidding!

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After all the excitement of the cows, we went to a fancy looking McDonalds with beautiful mountains behind it. Those mountains always amazed me, you guys. It honestly looked like the mountains were painted onto the sky. They just didn’t look real! I got a caramel ice cream sundae that was bombarded with 4 pumps of caramel! The woman was going WILD with my sundae. I surely didn’t mind. But man, was that ever the caramelyiest (forgive me for making up that word) sundae known to man kind. Don’t you usually just pay for extra pumps? I got it all for freeeeeeee.

I still have a few more posts coming up. Keep on comin’ back!

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