DAY 16 ~ Sunday 6th September, 2015

We had an enjoyable sleep in! Steve was up numerous times during the night and the snow had been falling. Just about everyone slept in. Poor Sarah grabbed a few people and went to the Vermillion lakes for Sunrise – which never happened, but some lovely shots were captured regardless!

After a hearty breakfast of waffles and maple syrup, we headed into Canmore for some “real” coffee and some fun at the shops with Tim, Sarah, Clair, Shaun & Will. Hilarious fun. OMG – Canmore definitely know the “Aussies are in town! Steve bought me a beanie – a big slouchy one – now I am one of the girls!

A few of us jumped in a car and drove up to Swift Lake on top of the mountains that surround Canmore. In hindsight we should have stayed a lot lower down to really capture the mountains – its hard to capture them when you are standing on top of them!

But we stopped in the middle of a dirt road and took numerous “selfies” in the snow. Steve had fun using his huge 200mm lens getting some great shots. Us girls (Sarah, Elise, me & Claire) all had fun jumping in the air doing silly poses! I haven't laughed so hard in ages. 

After that we headed back to the bagel place and today I tried a peanut butter & banana bagel – OMG – HEAVEN !!! The banana was exceptionally perfect! YUM….. no good for the diet, but eh – what diet?

So we headed back to the hotel where we are doing a “dry run” for camping for tomorrow night. We have NO room in the vehicles to take stuff, so we have to store stuff here at the Ramada, and only take our backpacks! OMG – I am freaking out slightly. There'll be NO selfies on this camping stint! Lol

Tonight at 3.30pm we are heading over to Moraine Lake near Lake Louise for sunset. It's not snowing, although cloudy – we should actually get some really lovely images, especially with the snow on the mountains! I am really looking forward to that.

Then we are back at the hotel for what I hope is a very early dinner (not) and then to bed, as we have to be up at 3.30am so we can check out of the hotel, and be back at Moraine Lake for sunrise...then we are all headed up the Icefields Parkway to Jasper!!! YAY – should be an EPIC trip! Keep your fingers crossed that I can get the majority of my stuff in the backpack!! Yeah, who am I kidding?

Its hard to realise we've only been on the OOAK trip 3 days…..feels like weeks already, but in a good way. The gang is awesome and we all get along really well together. Thats half the battle & fun on big group trips – it makes it so much better if we all get along – and we DO !! YAY !!

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