(Belle) - Today we left Jasper and arrived at Banff. On the way we saw a waterfall and then stopped to go out on a glacier. The glacier is like a big ice cube, it was freeeeeezing! I picked up a whole handful of ice. I accidentally put my foot through the ice into water and got a very wet and cold sock. Brrrrrr! When we got back on the Snocoach I soon warmed up.

After this we went on the skywalk which hangs out from the mountain over the valley. It has a glass bottom which was super scary. We had remote controls we put to our ears and we put in the numbers shown on the walls and it would talk to us about things. One thing I learned is that the skywalk is about 300m above the ground.

We then left and stopped at Lake Louise for a little look around. It was very pretty and very busy and the water was very cold. I climbed rocks in the water.

We finally arrived in Banff and went into our hotel room. We have an upstairs loft where me and Sophie will sleep. We also have a balcony.

(Sophie) - Today we headed to banff along the Icefields Parkway. This is quite a long drive but it was very exciting with amazing views of blue lakes, rivers and the mountains. We saw one area where there had been a forest fire and all the trees were brown and burnt but still looked impressive.

We first stopped at the Athabasca Falls. This is the same river that we rafted on yesterday, luckily we didn't raft over the falls! It was very strong and you couldn't even see the bottom.

We then drove to the Columbia Icefields where we boarded a snocoach which took us out onto the Athabasca Glacier. We had time to walk around on the ice - it was very cold. The coaches wheels were as big as me! The Glacier itself was huge but it had melted a lot since the Victorian era - about 10 metres a year! We had to be careful where we walked as there were some huge crevices in the glacier that you could fall down. We stayed in the "safe zone"

After this we went on the Glacier Skywalk which only opened a few months ago. It was a walk along the mountain edge which then went onto a big glass and steel hoop that went out over the valley and trees. It had a glass bottom so you felt like you were walking on air. We had a radio system that we carried around listening to and I learned that nutcracker birds only eat a few seeds in the summer and store most of them away to eat in the winter. I thought the views were amazing and I really enjoyed the Skywalk.

When we arrived in Banff we checked in to our hotel and then headed to the town to find some dinner. We went to a pizza restuarant where you could add honey onto your pizza (they gave you a bottle of honey like it was ketchup). It was weird but delicious.