Our Canada Trip

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To Calgary!

We left on Saturday morning, flew out of SFO to Calgary. This is Sarah and the kids in the car on the way to the airport. So far, everyone looks pretty happy.
 
Here we are at Customs in Canada. If you look closely, Kevin is sticking his tongue out. Yep, that's my boy. Eric is a bit more subdued. I got in trouble when I took another picture there - for some reason they don't like cameras in the Customs area. It wasn't the only time I got in trouble, but it was the only time someone official looking sneered at me.

On the Road

The next morning on the way out of Calgary we went by the Olympic Park where the 1988 Winter Olympics were. We stopped to look around, and lo' and behold they sell tickets to ride the luge! I couldn't pass it up, so they covered me with padding and gave me a shove.

You don't have to steer, the sled knows to keep going downhill. Just relax and enjoy the ride. It's about 33 seconds of exhilaration.

Banff at Last

This is a real "Grandma picture." Kev's just doing a cute pose in the hotel room.
 
 
We stayed at the Banff Springs Hotel (here's a picture from the top of the gondola). The first thing we wanted to do once we got there was to hit the pool. The weather was great and we needed to refresh our bottoms after a couple hours in the car. They have an outdoor pool that we swam in, too, but jeez how many pictures of pools does anyone really want to look at?
 
 

We dressed up for dinner at the hotel that night, which the kids couldn't believe we had to do on vacation! Before we ate we enjoyed the view from the deck, and then we convinced the kids that we should take a family picture, and then convinced them that they should at least fake a smile for it. So here we are, sincere smiles or otherwise.
 

The next day we rode the gondola to the top of the mountain. The view was amazing, and the smiles are ALL sincere. We also saw about a dozen big horn sheep up there.

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