My recent radio silence has been entirely unintentional. The holidays have almost arrived, and with it comes the bustling social schedule. This time of year has its perks though, last weekend the mister and I shared a blissful escape from Cowtown and it was so good it chalks up two notches on the Awesome list.  As you can probably guess from the title, our escape was into the beautiful Rockies, Banff (specifically), both of us aren’t big fans of the tourist masses, but the weather was lovely.  As we were entering the mountains, we were both in awe, and humbly grateful that they are only an hour away from our front door.

The purpose of our journey was to attend our very first FUNSPIEL! The function totally lived up to its name, curling was a blast, and any sport where you are allowed to hold your beverage in one hand , and slide a giant-polished-chunk-of granite down a huge ice sheet with the other hand has to be awesome. Being surrounded by majestic mountains playing curling, I had an Oh(I love you) Canada moment.  I can’t wait to organize a curling party of our own, perhaps involving some frozen water-filled recycled milk jugs and the pond behind our house.

The highlight of the trip, was on the way home.  We detoured off the main highway, and slowly meandered our way through the winding, snowy, sunny mountain roads.  It was good for the soul. Pictures to be added soon.