Banff, Alberta, Canada, Tuesday, October 27

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Welcome to a beautiful, crisp day in Alberta! Hope you packed your touque and mitts, but if you didn't, downtown Banff will be happy to sell you some (possible with moose on them) for an upcharge!

Up and at 'em, Fandom! Don't miss the beauty by staying inside!

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Daytime

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Good morning, etc! Time to get up and go!

Or sit inside and relax. It's your vacation.

HOTEL

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Welcome to the Fairmont Banff Springs! Located inside Banff National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage site, this hotel has been nicknamed the Canadian Castle in the Rockies and has 764 rooms and 12 restaurants and bars.

Rooms

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Four students will each be sharing two bedroom Excursion Suites. Pairs of chaperones are sharing King Suites.

[OOC: Room assignments are here, NSFW goes into personal journals.]

Re: Rooms

[sairis]

Sairis was still a bit weirded out by the whole castle thing. This place was a lot bigger than Fandom, and he kept getting lost in the hallways.

Maybe he'd stay in today?

Breakfast/Lunch

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href="https://www.fairmont.com/en/hotels/banff/fairmont-banff-springs/dining.html">Yes, we said 12 different restaurants and lounges! Tell us where you are!

Fitness

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Hot rock treatment? Facial? Running for an hour on a treadmill? The wellness options have you covered.

Re: Fitness

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Heated or not, Henry wasn't going to brave the outdoor pool. She was, however, happy to soak in the indoor pool.

Mostly the hot tub, to be entirely honest. But with an occasional cool down dip in the regular pool.

EXCURSIONS

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Lake Louise

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Visit the crown jewels of the Canadian Rockies with a Lake Louise and Moraine Lake Tour. Lake Louise’s turquoise waters and mountain backdrop create the perfect postcard scene, while Moraine Lake in the Valley of the Ten Peaks offers the iconic view featured on the former Canadian $20 bill. Our guides explain the fascinating geology behind these stunning glacial lakes.

Re: Lake Louise

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This time, Dante had woken up staring at the ceiling of someone else's hotel room. He'd left it without some of the worst jitters of the past couple of... months, but-- not all of them.

Nothing really spoke to him right now.

He wound up back on some kind of tour, snapping pictures of the water and the mountain he knew he was never gonna look at again and he had no one to send to. Could you call something habit if you hadn't done it in years?

"I need a fucking drink," he muttered.

Hiking!

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If you’d like to explore either lake further but aren’t comfortable hiking alone—or simply prefer some company—you can upgrade to a signature hikes. These guided hikes visit a different scenic area each day, including Moraine Lake and Lake Louise.

Re: Hiking!

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Jon might not be much of an athlete, but if there was one thing he could do, it was walk. And this was a pretty place.

Make Your Own Fun

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Maybe you want to take the gondola again?

Evening

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The temperatures definitely drop as the sun goes down, but Banff at night isn't something to be missed.

HOTEL

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Rooms

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You could order in...

Restaurants

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Or join Flint in his new home, the Incredibly Expensive Steakhouse...

Stanley's Clubhouse

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Bowling was not Dante's kinda thing, which meant that bar-wise, the grill was his best option.

"Just get me a bottle of the cheapest vodka you've got," he said, sinking into a seat.

Maybe he'd eat later.

Re: Restaurants

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Flint was back at the stupidly expensive steakhouse! Tonight he ordered cavier because it was so expensive, only to make a face as he ate a mouthful of salty fish eggs.

Rich people were stupid.

Fitness

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Or go for a run or a massage!

EXCURSIONS

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There's fun to do in the evenings, too!

Evening Wildlife Safari

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The Evening Wildlife Safari offers the best opportunities to spot elk, deer, bighorn sheep, bears, and mountain goats during the golden hour when animals are most active.

Do not steal a moose.

Re: Evening Wildlife Safari

[stykera]

Stark was not going to steal a moose.

Who stole moose?

He was going to check out all the wildlife though. Why not?

Re: Evening Wildlife Safari

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Anakin was there to confirm that no one was stealing any of the animals.

Anakin had been jaded by years of these trips.

"Stark," he said with a small smile.

Re: Evening Wildlife Safari

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Stark had never stolen an animal! That he remembered.

"Come looking for moose?" he asked. "Or maybe bears?"

Re: Evening Wildlife Safari

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"Maybe a bear riding a moose," Anakin said.

Re: Evening Wildlife Safari

[stykera]

"Do they do that?"

Mounted bears sounding scary and moose were already far too large.

"I don't think they do that."

It was going to be Stark's fault when a bear riding a moose showed up on the island.

Re: Evening Wildlife Safari

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"Maybe not in the wild," Anakin allowed.

Re: Evening Wildlife Safari

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"It's cheating if you make them do it," Stark pointed out with a little wave of his hands.

Re: Evening Wildlife Safari

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Anakin laughed. "I'm not using the Force on animals. I'm not Cade."

Re: Evening Wildlife Safari

[stykera]

"Cade is the one who never has a shirt?" Stark asked.

Not that he'd noticed. Ahem.

Re: Evening Wildlife Safari

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"Cade is the one who never had a shirt," Anakin sighed.

Make Your Own Fun

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There's plenty of non-hotel restaurants to try!

OOC

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