{"id":464,"date":"2013-06-21T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-21T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hodson.ca\/Travel\/?p=464"},"modified":"2017-09-22T23:22:08","modified_gmt":"2017-09-23T03:22:08","slug":"day-6-more-banff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hodson.ca\/Travel\/?p=464","title":{"rendered":"Day 6 &ndash; More Banff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The rain continued today, but not as heavy as yesterday.\u00a0 We went into town for breakfast and to explore the local shops.\u00a0 Our activities are basically limited to the town of Banff due to the area road closures.\u00a0 We visited some local shops, toured a museum, and had lunch before returning to the hotel.<\/p>\n<p>In the early afternoon, the weather cleared up and the sun came out, so we went for a short walk in the area.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA \" src=\"http:\/\/www.hodson.ca\/Travel\/wp-content\/pictures\/Alberta2013\/P6210605.jpg\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA \" width=\"570\" height=\"759\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is the Spray River where it meets the Bow River, just in front of our hotel.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA \" src=\"http:\/\/www.hodson.ca\/Travel\/wp-content\/pictures\/Alberta2013\/P6210623.jpg\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA \" width=\"570\" height=\"428\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA \" src=\"http:\/\/www.hodson.ca\/Travel\/wp-content\/pictures\/Alberta2013\/P6210629.jpg\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA \" width=\"570\" height=\"428\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here is the Bow River near Bow Falls.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA \" src=\"http:\/\/www.hodson.ca\/Travel\/wp-content\/pictures\/Alberta2013\/P6210631.jpg\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA \" width=\"570\" height=\"428\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA \" src=\"http:\/\/www.hodson.ca\/Travel\/wp-content\/pictures\/Alberta2013\/P6210651.jpg\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA \" width=\"570\" height=\"759\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA \" src=\"http:\/\/www.hodson.ca\/Travel\/wp-content\/pictures\/Alberta2013\/P6210666.jpg\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA \" width=\"570\" height=\"759\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After checking out the river, we walked back up the hill to the hotel.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA \" src=\"http:\/\/www.hodson.ca\/Travel\/wp-content\/pictures\/Alberta2013\/P6210672.jpg\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA \" width=\"570\" height=\"428\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We came across these curious ground squirrels, which seem to be everywhere.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA \" src=\"http:\/\/www.hodson.ca\/Travel\/wp-content\/pictures\/Alberta2013\/P6210679.jpg\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA \" width=\"570\" height=\"428\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RU5crhXoh00?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nOnce back at the hotel, we went to the Rundle Lounge for dinner.\u00a0 As usual, the food was excellent.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA \" src=\"http:\/\/www.hodson.ca\/Travel\/wp-content\/pictures\/Alberta2013\/P6210702.jpg\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA \" width=\"570\" height=\"428\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We still don\u2019t know when the highway will open, or how we will get to the Calgary airport on Monday to meet our flight home.\u00a0 As a worst-case option, it sounds like we may be able to get up to Lake Louise and head west to Vancouver.\u00a0 However, that would be a 10-hour drive, and dropping the car in a different city, plus the cost of some last-minute airline tickets, is not going to be cheap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The rain continued today, but not as heavy as yesterday.\u00a0 We went into town for breakfast and to explore the local shops.\u00a0 Our activities are basically limited to the town of Banff due to the area road closures.\u00a0 We visited &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hodson.ca\/Travel\/?p=464\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canadian-rockies-2013","tag-banff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hodson.ca\/Travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hodson.ca\/Travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hodson.ca\/Travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hodson.ca\/Travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hodson.ca\/Travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=464"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.hodson.ca\/Travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3496,"href":"http:\/\/www.hodson.ca\/Travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464\/revisions\/3496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hodson.ca\/Travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hodson.ca\/Travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hodson.ca\/Travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}