Archive for February, 2010

Big White to Silver Star

February 26, 2010

We woke up to a beautiful blue sky and perfect snow. We longingly watched the skiers fly past as we ate our breakfast before we hopped into our mini van for the 90 minute transfer to Silver Star. Upon my first glimpse of Silver Star, I fell in love with this place - the multi […]

Skiing Big White

February 19, 2010

I woke early to the sound of the snow plows heading up the mountain - what a perfect alarm clock at a ski resort. After a hearty breakfast and purchasing a bright pink crash helmet we headed up the mountain for a full day skiing. We paid for ski lessons in the morning and then […]

Journey to Big White

February 13, 2010

We were up bright eyes and bushy tailed (well beady eyes and bushed tails!) at 4.30am this morning for our transfer from Banff to Calgary. All our drivers have been really friendly and chatty but I was quietly relieved when this driver discretely turned off the bus lights 10 minutes after the journey began to […]

Banff in style

February 5, 2010

Ow, my head but WOW, the room, WOW, the hotel (Fairmont Banff Springs), wow wow the spa!!! The others in my group were up early but after some discussing beforehand it was decided I was best to stay at the hotel and rest up today. The bump on my head is very impressive!
So as soon […]