Weekend Recap

Friday

Today I got to leave work early which was really great because Matt and I are heading to Banff for a nice weekend get away. The hotel that we stayed at was The fairmont Hotel. To be honest the only reason we stayed there was because we had gift certificates from our wedding to stay at a fairmont hotel. I kow there are mush cheaper and practical fairmont hotels that we could have stayed at but we figured we would splurge a bit because when are we ever going to stay at the Fairmont Hotel in Banff again.... likely never. So this hotel is basically a huge castle. It was really easy to check in and I was a little confused at first at how we get to the elevators. But we found our way and headed to our room. As we were turning down the hall to our room we saw one of the bellmen with our bags so we just followed him the rest of the way and checked out our room. So the rooms at this hotel aren't like your typical modern hotel room, they are a bit smaller and the room we had was a deluxe king size room which we thought was kind of an average size room at other hotels. But here are some, well a lot of pictures of our room.

So I thought this was pretty cool our washroom had a step to get into it.

Walk in closet in a hotel, not to shabby. The next 2 pictures are a continuation of the closet when you go inside and turn right.

Yay big bed! I love sleeping in king size beds. I wish our master bedroom at home was big enough for one.

And this was the view from our window.

Once we settled our things in our room we went downstairs to see where we could eat tonight. Well just about all the resturants at the hotel were booked up for dinner. We did get in to one though for about 6:30pm. So in the mean time we just went to the little "corner store" that they have and got a few snack items. We brought those to our room and then headed for dinner. I have to say the food at this resturant was nothing too special (and I forgot to take a picture) but the bill was sure pricey.
After dinner we just walked around the grounds for a little bit and then headed back to our room for an early ngiht since tomorrow we are going to go to town and do a few things.

Saturday

Today we had breakfast at Phill's because the food at the hotel is just too expensive. Then we headed to the Banff Gondola since we have not been there in years! Last time we were there we had hiked up the mountain and then road the Gondola down, this time we took the Gondola up and down. It was around 10:30am when we got there and we were able to get a parking spot no problem which was surprising because it was already almost packed. Once we got up to the top I thought it would maybe be a little cold since we were so high up but it was just beautiful, it was just right! We went all the way to the top of the look out spots and then walked back, of course taking a few pictures along the way. Here are some of them.

Once we were done our adventure at the Gondola we left the parking lot which some how got even more full and people were just circling to try and find a parking spot. We were so happy we decided to go more in the morning.
Afterwards we went back into the town and did some walking around and went into stores we didn't really buy anything though, there were a few things that we wanted to get but thought we should just wait. We also went back to our hotel not too late because we had dinner reservations at their Italian restaurant.

I have ordered my meal and still couldn't eat it all even though I really wanted to! To work off our meals we decided to go walk around the hotel and check it out.

The golf course that Matt wanted to golf at. WAY TOO EXPENSIVE THOUGH!

Pretty hallways

Cool old elevator numbers

So may be wondering why I took this picture of the lobby. Well if your a Harry Potter fan (which I am) you would understand that it reminds me of the Ministry of Magic. I'll let you think on that one.

Sunday

Today we headed home which was sad that our weekend was over but nice as well because really there is no place like home.