So this is it. Week thirty nine is the final week in Banff. I can't quite believe that it is all now completely over. One part of me is ridiculously excited to go and travel with Danny and go home to see my family after a long ten months, but the other half of me just wants to stay and for nothing to change. If you know me well, you will know I hate change. I hate goodbyes even more so this week has been pretty strange for me. I know that we have the most incredibly exciting few months coming up and that is going to be great for the both of us, but it doesn't make leaving all of our friends and the place that we have called home for the last ten months any easier at all. That being said it has been a very nice chilled final week and the perfect way to end it all.
Danny finished working both jobs on Saturday and myself on Sunday, so it was time to finally become unemployed after the longest two working weeks of our lives! We needed it. We slept in, we packed and just spent some time together which was great. Of course the day I finished work, we went straight back that night to claim our free meal. It is bloody impossible to stay away from Saltlik. Impossible. We shared a beautiful bottle of red wine, carpaccio, steaks and a creme brûlée. We drank, we chatted, and then Danny continued into the night with the boys from work. We had a lot to do over the next three days so I was boring and went home to bed at a reasonable hour. Yay me.
On Monday night Danny and I treated ourselves to dinner at Eden, which is a restaurant based in the Rimrock Hotel. Eden is the only 5 diamond restaurant in Banff and Danny and I have been wanting to go for a long time. We were planning on waiting until November when they have a "cheap" week, but obviously our visas didn't fancy that, so we had to splash out. We decided that we have both worked ridiculously hard and we probably won't be coming back so it was now or never and I am so glad that we did it. Yes it was incredibly expensive, but it was such an experience and the food was excellent. I'm not going to go into everything we had, as in the end there were 7 courses and cakes to take home, so it would take me a very long time to describe it all but put simply, it was spectacular. Everything had such great flavour and had been so delicately put together, it was quite something.
Tuesday was an extremely lazy day. We packed and lounged about watching TV and then went to our friends Caol and Steph's for dinner and wine. It was a lovely sunny evening, so we sat outside, ate and drank and chatted until the late hours and we decided it was probably time to sleep as Wednesday was the penultimate day and we needed to get everything sorted. We finished all of our packing, we shipped out all the furniture and personal belongings that we had managed to sell and went souvenir shopping for a few bits and bobs for the family. Then it was time to go out and drink. The final farewell.
It was Wednesday wine night at the Rose and Crown. Both of us arrived and got convinced by Will and Georgie that the best way to defeat jet lag was to get really drunk and stay up all night. So that was our first night in Banff, what better way to end it all by doing exactly the same! So many people from Saltlik came to say goodbye and bye us an obscene amount of shots and make sure that we weren't going to forget them! Of course I cried, and it all got a bit emotional and yeh. Goodbyes are not my thing.
Neither are hangovers which hit pretty hard come this morning and we have spent pretty much the entire day in bed watching Friends and putting off moving all of our stuff to Will and Georgie's apartment and actually doing anything at all. But we did it, and now we wait. Shortly we shall be getting on the Greyhound bus to Vancouver. A short 13 and a half hour journey so cross your fingers for us, it shall be interesting I'm sure. I shall try my best to utilize the free wifi on the buses to keep you all updated on each leg of our journey, but we know what wifi connections can be like and if I'm honest I can't promise that I won't just sleep the entire way, but I will try my hardest! For those of you in Banff reading this, thank you so much for making the last ten months so much fun and we will miss you all incredibly, make sure you keep in touch please! For all of our family and friends back home in the UK, just three and a half weeks and we will be there for lots of catch ups and cuddles and all of the things we have been missing from you all! Until then...
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