{"id":1906,"date":"2016-09-30T15:37:49","date_gmt":"2016-09-30T15:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/old.cherylhill.net\/blog\/?p=1906"},"modified":"2020-01-11T21:07:08","modified_gmt":"2020-01-11T21:07:08","slug":"canadian-rockies-day-8-afternoon-tea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/2016\/09\/30\/canadian-rockies-day-8-afternoon-tea\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Rockies Day 8: Afternoon Tea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>August 3, 2016<\/p>\n<p>With rainy cloudy weather in today&#8217;s forecast we took a day off from hiking today. We spent some time exploring downtown Banff, which is SUPER touristy with lots of shops selling souvenirs that range widely in quality. For lunch we had Afternoon Tea at the Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel, a splurge that was fun and tasty.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c3.staticflickr.com\/9\/8209\/29865326346_fc0ebcff2d_z.jpg\" alt=\"Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This was the view we had from our table!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c4.staticflickr.com\/9\/8101\/29816953291_b38bf92248_z.jpg\" alt=\"Tea with a view\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\" \/><\/p>\n<p>They have this cart of jars with loose leaf tea so you can smell the different ones, if that helps in making your decision of which tea to order. What a great idea!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c5.staticflickr.com\/9\/8355\/29841322156_1fc323963c_c.jpg\" alt=\"Afternoon tea\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Even though each food item served was pretty small, it all added up to quite a meal. I was stuffed afterward.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c6.staticflickr.com\/8\/7732\/29249796893_44be306d2d_c.jpg\" alt=\"Afternoon tea\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c5.staticflickr.com\/9\/8213\/29841319516_bca913303a_c.jpg\" alt=\"Afternoon tea\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c6.staticflickr.com\/6\/5019\/29249799653_78e234179d_c.jpg\" alt=\"Afternoon tea\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>That afternoon we walked around Canmore, which is a cool little town just outside the park boundary. They have this big head sculpture that Greg tried to imitate:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c3.staticflickr.com\/6\/5489\/29865323226_eb89c0435a_z.jpg\" alt=\"Big head sculpture\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We took a walk along Policeman&#8217;s Creek, which is an incredibly lovely little slice of nature right in town.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c5.staticflickr.com\/9\/8373\/29272944444_e6b9b98574_c.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"531\" alt=\"Policeman&#x27;s Creek Boardwalk\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c5.staticflickr.com\/9\/8377\/29865318876_b4a6da3814_c.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"531\" alt=\"Policeman&#x27;s Creek Boardwalk\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c7.staticflickr.com\/6\/5514\/29865316166_120de9f207_c.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"531\" alt=\"Policeman&#x27;s Creek Boardwalk\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c5.staticflickr.com\/9\/8729\/29273335244_b9c5554f90_c.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"531\" alt=\"Policeman&#x27;s Creek Boardwalk\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c5.staticflickr.com\/9\/8248\/29273016884_34f706c04f_c.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"531\" alt=\"Canmore view\"><\/p>\n<p>We saw these rabbits in a little park. Adorable!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c2.staticflickr.com\/9\/8046\/29862331081_0f04146359_z.jpg\" alt=\"Bunnies in Canmore\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c2.staticflickr.com\/9\/8445\/29945297305_d1e58efd20_z.jpg\" alt=\"Bunnies in Canmore\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Ramada where we were staying in Canmore had a three-story waterslide so of course I had to partake. Felt like a kid again!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/6\/5542\/29249165224_d2cc7a49cb_z.jpg\" alt=\"Ramada water slide\" width=\"550\" height=\"412\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/2016\/09\/23\/canadian-rockies-day-7-kananaskis-country\/\"><< Day 7: Kananaskis Country<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/2016\/10\/02\/canadian-rockies-day-9-stanley-glacier\/\">Day 9: Stanley Glacier<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 3, 2016 With rainy cloudy weather in today&#8217;s forecast we took a day off from hiking today. We spent<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/2016\/09\/30\/canadian-rockies-day-8-afternoon-tea\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Canadian Rockies Day 8: Afternoon Tea<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,175,180],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-banff-national-park","category-canadian-rockies","category-canmore"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1906"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3096,"href":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1906\/revisions\/3096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}