Thursday 21st - Sunday 31st May 2015

So I started my new job at the Banff gondola at Sulphur mountain. Its a lot different from Sunshine, I have to push the cabins onto the line. Everyone has been super nice so it been easy to fit in. Its hard work pushing gondolas five days a week! My body hurts! Someone worked out that we walk any where between 15 - 20 km a day! What the hell?! No wonder I've lost a lot of weight!!

Andrew and I took a little trip to Drumheller, which was a four hour drive from Banff. Drumheller is in the badlands northeast of Calgary. The town started as a coal mining and then a train station was then built in 1912. It became a village in 1913 and became one of Canada's largest coal producer.

We went to the Royal Tyrrell museum, which has Canada's largest dinosaur fossil collection. It was a pretty impressive museum, despite the hundreds of children that were about!

We had a drive around and went to see the hoodoos, which were smaller than what we were expecting! But still looked impressive! We had a quick look at the Atlas coal mine before heading into town.

The town has several model dinosaurs plotted around which are painted depending where they are near. One was painted with postal stamps as it was next to the post office! We saw the largest T-Rex in the world, which stood at 26.2 meters tall!

We had a great day out and about, I got to drive the van home. My one and only chance! I think I have scared Andrew for life he won't let me drive any more! Whoops!

We took a trip to WalMart in Cochrane which was a great and expensive adventure! I found tea cakes and proper rice pudding from home! I was so excited! I spent way too much money, but if I brought all this in Banff it would cost me double!

We went for a short jaunt through Marble canyon in Yoho National Park and had a look at the waterfalls around the park one day. We stopped off at Lake Louise which has now completed unfrozen and Moraine Lake. Moraine Lake is possibly one of the most photographed lakes in Canada. If you google Canada I'm pretty sure the lake comes up on google images! But it was beautiful, its not in its full deep blue colour or filled up to the brim but it was beautiful!

Summer has arrived in the Canadian Rockies and I am looking forward to enjoying the sun and warmth until winter arrives again!