{"id":87,"date":"2011-04-09T14:46:03","date_gmt":"2011-04-09T20:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/?p=87"},"modified":"2011-04-17T17:03:33","modified_gmt":"2011-04-17T23:03:33","slug":"trip-to-lakelouisebanff-day-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/?p=87","title":{"rendered":"trip to lake louise\/banff day one"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>after a long drive through a spring snowstorm, we finally arrived at chateau lake louise for the first day of our\u00a0 holiday. what a relief to get there! the drive took twice as long as normal because of the heavy snowfall. we took our bags to our room then quickly dressed for a walk outside before dusk.\u00a0 the snow had stopped falling and the whole lake gleamed with a fresh coat of powdery white.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"purple sweater statue by onebluestocking, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/onebluestocking\/5603545939\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4094\/5603545939_d9b18ec12f.jpg\" alt=\"purple sweater statue\" width=\"325\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>walking down to the lake i found a lovely bronze statue of a guide, who must have been a bjd, because he was just my size!<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"purple sweater statue base by onebluestocking, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/onebluestocking\/5603545867\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4098\/5603545867_8c32e4f82c.jpg\" alt=\"purple sweater statue base\" width=\"325\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>since part of the reason for our trip was to photograph all of the new sweaters i had designed, we took a closeup of my lovely purple wool cabled sweater as i relaxed on the statue&#8217;s base.  my cosy reversible cream bamboo scarf was just the thing to keep my neck warm in the afternoon&#8217;s chill.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"purple sweater climbing by onebluestocking, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/onebluestocking\/5603546001\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5230\/5603546001_e8c17d35fe.jpg\" alt=\"purple sweater climbing\" width=\"303\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>up the hill i saw an ice cave and climbed up for a closer look.  i really need to knit some mitten&#8217;s next,  that snow is cold on my bare hands!<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"purple sweater ice cave by onebluestocking, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/onebluestocking\/5603546903\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5141\/5603546903_12f88a82b8.jpg\" alt=\"purple sweater ice cave\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>the little cave had some beautiful ice formations but after the hard climb i needed to sit and rest a bit.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"purple sweater ice cave closeup by onebluestocking, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/onebluestocking\/5603547903\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5143\/5603547903_34b96228bb.jpg\" alt=\"purple sweater ice cave closeup\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>maybe just a little longer?  would you like another peek at my sweater while you wait for me?<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"purple sewater falling by onebluestocking, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/onebluestocking\/5604131056\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5184\/5604131056_ccafe9b2d9.jpg\" alt=\"purple sewater falling\" width=\"309\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>on the way down i lost my footing and slid to the bottom. that was certainly a faster way down the hill, but i think i&#8217;ll go inside now and warm up&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>after a long drive through a spring snowstorm, we finally arrived at chateau lake louise for the first day of our\u00a0 holiday. what a relief to get there! the drive took twice as long as normal because of the heavy snowfall. we took our bags to our room then quickly dressed for a walk outside before dusk.\u00a0 the snow had stopped falling and the whole lake gleamed with a fresh coat of powdery white. walking down to the lake i found a lovely bronze statue of a guide, who must have been a bjd, because he was just my size!&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,15],"tags":[4,19,379,16,5,11,17,18,10],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125,"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions\/125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}