Week Twenty Four.

This week has been a lot about chilling out and settling back into our little Banff life, getting back to work and back into a routine. Which has been a lot harder than I hoped let me tell you. I'm so bloody tired all the time. It doesn't help that I seem to have picked up a stupid chest infection thus preventing me from sleeping between the hours of 3am and 5am - always a joy, napping has become almost as frequent as when I was at uni. Not good.

But in those few moments when I have not been sleeping, we have actually done some lovely activities. We went out for the most delicious Sunday lunch in Canmore, and enjoyed an afternoon in the sunshine catching up with our friends and eating good food. Directly after we took a little trip to Canadian Tire where Danny treated himself to a bike, and has enjoyed many hours in the two days following, fixing it up and taking it out and about the town. I'm glad he has a bike now that the snowboarding season is coming to an end, I think he is slightly concerned about what he is going to do to occupy all his spare time in the Summer, so this is certainly something good.

I am actually really looking forward to the Summer here. I want to go rock climbing, and hike all of the four mountains that surround Banff, go canoeing, take some bike rides (if I am allowed to get a bike) and just generally live a fitter and more healthy lifestyle. After Coachella and a week of road tripping and eating more McDonalds than I can ever bare to think about, I am really motivated to try and eat right and exercise and get my body into a fit state. Then hopefully I won't get all these bloody colds and chest infections, reverting me back to a childlike state wishing I was at home with my Mum looking after me.

With this in mind I spent all of Monday in bed/on the sofa feeling extremely sorry for myself, completely out of it on some disgusting tasting cough syrup working my way through the Harry Potter films. There is nothing that could possibly be wrong that Harry Potter couldn't cheer you up just a tad. And tea. I have drank a fair amount of tea. And made the most delicious tasting broccoli and cheddar soup. That is one good thing about being ill. It forces me to eat vegetables. Even if they are coated in milk and cheese, it's still vegetables!

Tuesday I was feeling a bit better, so after the most incredible of all lie ins, Danny and I grabbed our Banff Ambassador Passports and headed up to the Banff gondola on Sulphur Mountain. Those passports are absolutely brilliant. So many good freebies on there it is unreal. We would have had to pay 40 bucks each to take a return trip on the gondola and with these passes we managed to do it for free. It was a lovely way to spend a couple of hours. We got off at the top, and wandered along the little 1km trail up to the top viewing platform. The views up there are stunning, especially now we are coming into Summer and the water is crystal blue. It's just beautiful. Fingers crossed I can get my hands on a bike soon and enjoy some trips around the lakes in the sunshine. We shall see.