Having worked the first six and a half hours of New Years Eve, the proceeding 17 and a half were spent in rather a zombified daze, still...the 300 odd kilometer drive from Jasper to Banff, via Lake Louise remains possibly the most beautiful drive one can take (even when its swallowed by a terrifying blizzard). On the way we passed the frozen remnants of the Sunwapta falls and the Weeping Wall
Spent the night in the elegant, luxurious and bewilderingly huge Banff Springs hotel/castle. Had a New Years dinner in the Bavarian restaurant there (and had the Wiener Schnitzel, very nice) before retiring to bed and an instan
t, total and exhausted oblivion at 10:30 (what a shame!)
