Tuesday, November 29, 2005

Banff - it's just fun to say

We took off to Banff for Thanksgiving this year with Soph's Mom. I pretty much have to leave town when I take vacation or I end up filling my time with projects, even if they're not explicitly work-related. Such as assembling the storage shelves that are sitting on the garage floor that I bought a week ago...

Anyway, we also figured it would be a good time to just chill with Mrs. Lin, and it was.

Crazy thing, though, was that Banff was having the same "warm spell" that the rest of the West Coast is having this year. Instead of the normal few feet of snow, there was almost none, only on the mountain tops. It was still gorgeous, but no snow, so no remarkable pictures.

There might not have been snow, but it was still COLD. Like zero degrees celcius. When we got there Wed night we spent some time at a hotel bar until Mrs. Lin's flight showed up. When we were leaving I put on my coat, gloves, scarf and hat. The only other guy in the bar called out to me as I passed, saying "Oh come on! It's not that cold out there! You're making yourself look silly. Take some of that off!" He was just joking around, but believe it or not we DID see a number of locals walking around that night at 11pm wearing just their sportcoats. It was ZERO DEGREES. Or colder.

Ok, ok. So you're thinking I'm a wimpy californian. Well, yes. I am. But it was still cold.

All in all it was a great trip. We spent the vast majority of time either eating good food (check out "Earl's" in town if you ever go) or sitting by the fire at the Rimrock Hotel drinking coffee or hot chocolate and reading books.

It was very nice. I could have used about another 4 days.

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