Boulder Bear hung around in the hotel lobby sometimes and handed out candy canes. The second picture is of the Banff hot springs. Then Alex and Chris on top looking down on the view.
Baby Erik is the most chilled out of all just smiling from his pram. Oona took a lot of air on the tobaggon run. And we went on a 3 hour walk up Johnston's Canyon where ice climbers cling to the frozen falls as they practice their sport. We then bathed in the OUTDOOR hot springs at Banff where the water seeps from kilometres deep, is naturally heated and pressurized and is full of medicinal minerals when it reaches the surface of the earth. We had to keep hair from freezing on the way to our cars after bathing.
We rang in 2012 in front of a fire at the edge of frozen Lake Louise below the glacier in 18 degrees below zero temperatures. The party at the hotel was great fun with face painting for kids next to the dining room and buffet delicacies of which Alberta beef was a favourite coarse. Most of us went to the top of the world on New Years day. Here's Oona in the orange helmet. She can come to a screeching stop after barreling down the hill. Kiefer and Sophie are off to a good ski start and love riding up and down on the magic carpet (conveyer belt for kiddies.)
