More Bears means More Beer.

So I imagine you can see how easily our hike was curtailed on Saturday!! We'd headed into Banff and just fancied a wee hike before mosying down into town for a celebration pint (seeing as though it was a year since we tied the knot - woo hoo!!). The Grizzly sow and her two cubs that were gorging themselves on this years ever so bountiful berry crop did not seem to understand our hiking desires, and thus remained sat on the trails, inconsiderately chewing away at the undergrowth. We only discovered this half way down the trail - much to Brina's distress, which was captured so;
So with terrified wife (admitedly Brina doesn't look terrified in the photo, more terrifying), a closed trail and the baking hot sun burning down on our shoulders, there was only one thing for it. Make a sharp u turn (as there was no other turn to make unless we wanted to become Grizzly fodder), and head straight for the nearset beer garden to start the celebrations a little earlier than anticipated.
Although it was still a good trek away, the nearest beer garden was the Waldhous, a wee Bavarian pub sat beneath the Banff Springs Hotel on the Bow River and next to the golf course. With views of Rundle, tunnel and the Goat Range, it made for a bonny place to sit back and toast our year together. However, since we were early, we had to get big pints. A pitcher of Alexander Keiths Pale Ale made us both a little dizzy, but the rest of the day was good fun as we realised that we were actually looking down the valley to the spot where we got married at the Hoodoos.


Well that's about all for now. Sunday will no doubt entail a bike ride of sorts, and then work is trying to take all of our time away again (yep, back in the classroom on Monday). Hopefully all is well with each and everyone one of you. I thought that I'd finish today with the shot of last night's sunset taken from our front deck. That's Devil's Head in the centre (the thumb, or tombstone mt, with BlackRock Mt to the left - in the Ghost Wilderness Area).
S&S.
Take care,
S&S.