Honeymoon: Day Six

We're nearing the close of our too short honeymoon [cry]. But, we decided to go out with a bang -- or a *banff*! We're in Banff National Park right now and the day was spent exploring the area a little bit. The real adventure begins tomorrow morning when we head off bright and early for a big hike.

However, today we visited the infamous Lake Louise and Morraine Lake. Both were pretty amazing.



I preferred Morraine Lake -- even thought it was much smaller -- simply because it wasn't as overrun by tourists. We also ventured a quick "scramble" up a rocky mountain to get some pretty incredible views of the lake. Let us also note, that before attempting the scramble up the mountain, Jamie attempted to scramble across a bunch of floating logs to get to said mountain. So Jamie ended up having to do the hike up with wet shoes. Hilarious.












We finished off our evening of exploration by driving the scenic route towards the hotel in search of wildlife. We had some success -- we ended up spotting not one, not two, but three black bears and two cubs! It was pretty incredible. One of the cubs was about 20 feet from me and running towards me, but I was awestruck by how cute it was that all I got was this blurry picture.


I was so preoccupied with the cub, that I didn't even notice mama bear about 15 feet in front of us...needless to say, I was nervous enough when I did see her to ruin that picture as well. I hear it's a death wish to get between a mama bear and her cubs...



Oh well...perhaps I'll have some steadier hands tomorrow when we are on our hikes...