banff, alberta happy wednesday! or thursday, depending on when you’re reading this. i finally had time to go through and edit my photos from our trip to banff! banff was such an amazing place. honestly, breath taking. AND since canada is celebrating 150 years this year, ALL national park passes were free! so we literally didn’t pay for anyyyything. it was awesome! if you missed my last post, we spent a few days in vancouver and then headed to banff for a few more days! basically a road trip around canada. except we flew in an airplane.. so actually not a road trip at all. as i said in my vancouver travel post, we really didn’t take that many photos. if you follow me on instagram, you’ll probably see more that were taken with my phone as opposed to this post. we really enjoyed the moment and our time together and it was important to me that we didn’t pull out the camera 24/7. we spent a total of three whole days in the banff area. we stayed in an air bnb right outside of calgary so our commute was a little long each day, but worth it. if you’re thinking about making a trip to banff in the future, here are a few pieces of advice that i wish someone would have told me – tips bring snacks – seriously! pack your backpack with granola bars and water. i didn’t realize how hungry and tired i would after hiking all day. eating breakfast, lunch, and dinner just isn’t enough when you’re burning so many calories hiking. i basically lived off of cliff bars lol pack warm – even if you’re visiting in the middle of summer, pack a few long sleeve shirts/hoodies and leggings! you’re going to be up in the mountains, so it’s windy and chilly. i brought one light jacket to banff, which i’m glad about, but i wish i would have packed more. go early or late – i know these photos make it seem like we were basically the only ones there, but WOW. each location was packed with tourists. and i mean PACKED. we got to lake louise at around 10am and literally didn’t have a parking spot. we had to take a shuttle from a parking lot about two miles away. best advice – get to lake louise at sunrise! i hear it’s…

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if you follow me on instagram, you’ve been seeing a ton of photos from our recent trip to canada. it was honestly one of the best trips i’ve ever taken. so so so beautiful. our first stop was a few days in vancouver! it was sooooo exhausting but equally as fun. we hit up a few suspension bridges, the aquarium, and saw an endless amount of mountains. what more could you ask for? i thought we were going to take WAY more photos than we did, but i’m honestly kind of glad we didn’t. we really focused on living in the moment (yah i know, cliche) and it was unforgettable. there wasn’t one thing we did that i was disappointed with lol it also helped that we pretty much planned out everything we were going to do before we got there. it saved us a ton of time! not pictured is our trip to the aquarium – i have a few photos on my instagram, but we didn’t really want to deal with our big dslr in there. we got to pet sting rays! and it was SO cute and just so much fun. it was also filled with jellyfish! watching jellyfish swim around has to be one of the most relaxing things ever. anyway, enjoy the photos! next week i’ll be sorting through our photos from our second stop in banff. i can’t wait to get those up! probably some of my favorite photos ever. xo stanley park the prettiest views from stanley park cleveland damn when we were researching things to do, a ton of people said the cleveland dam was cool but not THAT cool but since it was near the capilano suspension bridge, we decided to check it out anyway. and OK, i do not know who the heck was saying it wasn’t *that cool – like look at this view! amazing. quarry rock our first hike of the entire trip was quarry rock. again, i trusted the internet when they said this was an “easy” hike and should be no problem at all. i have to disagree 100%. it was a pretty difficult hike! it took us about 45 minutes to get to the top and it was uphill nearly the entire way. i mean, i get that, you’re hiking up, but it was way more difficult than we expected. i would say for beginners,…

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