Happy New Year
- On January 01, 2008
- By victoria
- In Alberta, British Columbia, Calgary, Canada, Edmonton, Naramata
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For Christmas I caught the Greyhound to Penticton to my Aunts and together we drove to Calgary. The roads were terrible, due to heaps of snow and freezing temperatures… both on the Greyhound and driving! We spent a couple of days in Calgary with Toby, Kathryn and Jack, it was great to see them and Jack is getting so BIG.
From Calgary we drove to Edmonton, to spend Christmas with Glen and John. We had a white Christmas and the temperature was about –15. Glen and John threw a dinner party for their friends on Christmas Eve, which was a lot of fun. On Christmas day there was just the four of us, which was nice, Santa came in the morning and then we opened our other presents after that. We had Christmas dinner then played Super Mario on the Nintendo Wii and watched movies, very relaxed.
The drive back to Penticton from Edmonton was a lot better than on the way, the roads were clear for most of the trip! I had a couple of days in Naramata before heading back to Vancouver, we just chilled out, played the Wii and watched movies. I did manage to catch up with the girl I worked with in the Naramata Heritage Inn in the summer, which was good.
I got the bus back to Vancouver for New Years, the hostel has a bar downstairs and they had a party on New Years Eve, which I went to with friends from the hostel, we had a great night, with people dancing on Granville Street!
Banff and Calgary, Alberta
I had my last day of work at the Inn and was given some lovely gifts from the staff and owners before leaving!
We went to Sumac Ridge and took their winery tour and tasting, before going out for lunch on the lakeshore in Summerland! The weather was perfect, 37 degrees and beautiful!
I headed to Banff for a couple of days, did some hikes, canoed on the Bow River and took the gondola up Sulphur Mountain, the views were amazing, Banff is such a beautiful place, it reminds me of the French/Swiss Alps!
Then I headed to Calgary for the stampede, Yea Har! I stayed in the HI hostel downtown, my first hostel stay of many to come on this trip! I went up the Calgary Tower, which gave a fantastically clear view of Calgary, all the way out to the Rockies. I explored downtown where there were lots of festivities and street parties on for the Stampede. The Rodeo was so much fun and the evening show was amazing!
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