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  • Good morning! Do we look cold? It's pretty cold.

  • What is it like... it was like 5 degrees Celsius? When we got here...

  • But we're at Moraine Lake!

  • It's 6:30 in the morning and this lot is pretty full already.

  • So now we're just gonna wait for the sun to come out a little bit and take some pictures of course

  • and go exploring!

  • This is where everybody takes their famous Moraine Lake photos.

  • Everybody getting that shot.

  • Alright so now we're gonna go to... what is it, Rockpile?

  • CANDY: Yes.

  • We're gonna go up a little bit.

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  • Okay, so we're on top of Rockpile Mountain ... or it's just Rockpile, I think, of Moraine Lake.

  • It feels like a mountain since we had to climb up here, haha.

  • It really wasn't even that bad but we're so out of shape.

  • We're not avid hikers so we need really easy hikes. And the views are amazing!

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  • I'm canoeing!

  • MARIKO: Woohoo! We're canoeing!

  • It is really peaceful and the scenery is awesome

  • I mean the water looks fake because it's like so blue and clear.

  • Yeah now we're just like canoeing and taking in the views!

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  • Now we're gonna head to Lake Louise but not we're gonna go to Lake Louise summer gondola.

  • So we're gonna take the gondola up in the mountain and we're gonna have some lunch.

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  • We made it to Lake Louise summer gondola. It doesn't feel like summer with the gear that we're wearing.

  • I know, hahaha! We're ready for winter. It's going to be cold up there, so...

  • Alrighty guys, it's the four of you?

  • Yes.

  • Awesome. You can jump on in.

  • Ok!

  • Enjoy your lunch!

  • We're on our way up to lunch!

  • Going up! I'm actually kind of terrified of heights, so...

  • CANDY: Yeah, me too.

  • This looks like it's going way up there.

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  • Ok, we got our food. This is the grilled avocado caesar salad with prosciutto. It's like crispy prosciutto.

  • It looks really good. Looks nice and fresh.

  • Yeah I've never seen caesar salad presented like this. It's very interesting. I like it like this.

  • And then their burger is humungous.

  • Oh and Mariko got her chicken breast. Wow, that is very pretty.

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  • We're very hungry, so we came to a ramen place. We have different ramen drawings here.

  • I went with this one, the Tonkutsu ramen. I like the drawing a lot, so that's why I went with it.

  • And then Candy got a seafood ramen but she didn't pick a picture one so I can't point at it on the board.

  • I'm super ready to eat!

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  • MARIKO [in Japanese]: Thank you for the meal. MARIKO [in Japanese]: Thank you so much!

  • CANDY: Ahhh, feel good now.

  • CRYSTAL: Alright, we're ready to go on our night photography mission.

  • I'm ready.

  • CRYSTAL: Candy is ready. Yeah! Hahaha!

  • CRYSTAL: They're ready. Wes is ready.

  • WES: Ready.

  • CRYSTAL: Let's do this!

  • CANDY: Crystal's getting ready for her night photography

  • CRYSTAL: Thank you. They're my assistants, hahaha!

  • CRYSTAL: Just gotta get my tripod set up...hahaha... in the complete darkness.

  • CANDY: But you're... I can actually see you with this light.

  • CRYSTAL: Could you?

  • CANDY: Yeah, it's really bright.

  • CRYSTAL: Yeah it was raining earlier so...

  • CRYSTAL: ... and as we were driving here, I was like, Oh my gosh, it's getting worse and worse, haha!

  • Instructor: Yeah, I know!

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  • So we're on a shuttle bus to Johnston Canyon.

  • We're gonna take a bus there today because we didn't want to deal with the parking

  • and it's a little bit later in the day; it's 10:45.

  • How long is this trip?

  • I think it's like 30-40 minutes, something like that.

  • Not too long.

  • Yeah it's $5 for the roundtrip ticket and we parked at the Banff Train Station

  • So we're gonna relax and enjoy this ride!

  • Yeah and this shuttle, I'm surprised that the seats are very nice.

  • They are nice. It's like they revamped this school bus.

  • Yeah I was thinking like, Oh man, school bus seats!? I hate those seats

  • but these are actually nice cushioned seats so that's nice.

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  • CRYSTAL: Bye, thank you!

  • Bus driver: You're welcome. Enjoy your day!

  • CRYSTAL: We will!

  • Oh it's cold.

  • CRYSTAL: It is kinda cold.

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  • So we're here and we want to go to Lower Falls and then to Upper Falls. We'd like to see this.

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  • So we made it to Lower Falls. The walk wasn't that bad.

  • It went by pretty fast.

  • Yeah, it's only like a half a mile so I guess that's why it wasn't so bad.

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  • Alright, now we're making our way to Upper Falls. We just saw Lower Falls

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  • Oh there's a waterfall over there.

  • So 20 minutes for the first one and then 30 minutes to this one.

  • This one is a lot harder. There's a lot more incline.

  • More incline for sure.

  • It's almost our turn to take a picture by this waterfall!

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  • CANDY: Alright, who's going to dig in first?

  • Me!!! I'm gonna dig in. My favorite kara-age. This is like fried chicken. Kinda like fried chicken nuggets.

  • It looks good!

  • I have the cold ramen. So they put a bunch of pickled stuff, chicken, edamame

  • and then there's the noodles at the bottom.

  • CRYSTAL: Is it good?

  • Mhmm. I like it.

  • I got the Tokyo Fries. This has Japanese mayo and okonomiyaki sauce, I think.

  • And bonito, which is dry fish flakes.

  • Good morning! I'm tired.

  • Hahaha, we woke up at like 4:30 again today so that we could go to...

  • or we can get to Lake Louise super early before everybody else.

  • We got here at 6:30 but it started raining hardcore.

  • A little bit of snow.

  • A little bit of snow... Now it's starting to finally clear up. There's like a big crowd going there now

  • so we're gonna make our way and see how beautiful Lake Louise is.

  • CANDY: Oh, there it is. It's right there. CRYSTAL: Yeah.

  • CANDY: Oh, this is really close. CRYSTAL: It's super close.

  • It's super easy to get to. It's very popular for people like us.

  • Oh my gosh, there's someone canoeing.

  • There's people canoeing in this weather! It's so cold.

  • So these are all the names of the mountains that we see in the distance. They're all named after people.

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  • The sun's coming out, the clouds are like going away, there's no more rain...

  • CANDY: And there's a lot more people now. CRYSTAL: Yeah, definitely a lot of people.

  • I don't know if you can hear the people in the background... but you know what?

  • Everyone's pretty courteous and waits their turn so if you're worried about too many people being here,

  • Right now, it's pretty good.

  • Yeah, it's definitely good. And it goes around in a loop, so there's lots of places where you can take pictures.

  • There's plenty of angles you can get here It's not just one picture spot so...

  • if one picture spot is crowded, just keep walking down and you'll find someplace else.

  • Yeah, keep on going.

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  • So, it's 8:30 now and it is packed here. There's a whole bunch more people like three times more I would say.

  • If you want a photo without people in it, this is not the time to come.

  • CRYSTAL: Oh also, if you want to do like trail... CANDY: Oh yeah...

  • There's like a two-hour hike, I think. It can go up to a tea house but we're not really ambitious hikers

  • and we were kind of struggling yesterday at the Johnston Canyon one and that was like barely uphill

  • So yeah we were like, Yeah, maybe it's not a good idea for us to go that 2-hour hike

  • so we opted not to do it but if you want to and you're a hiker, you should definitely do it.

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  • We're at this beautiful garden, it's called Cascade Gardens in Banff.

  • It's at the end of the downtown area and it's so beautiful here

  • Yeah, we didn't know if we were even allowed to come in because the whole area is gated

  • so it kind of looks like it's a private area but it's actually open to the public.

  • Yeah so there's this garden behind us here with a nice pond

  • And there's like a gorgeous view of downtown Banff

  • and then... more in the back is another a beautiful garden area and there's a little waterfall

  • and there's tiered flower gardens. It's so beautiful. It's like a little Switzerland.

  • CANDY: Yeah, it's really relaxing. CRYSTAL: It is.

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  • Off we go! Whoooo!!!

  • WES: It's like a roller coaster! CRYSTAL: Hahaha!

  • CANDY: Oh my goodness, that is fast. CRYSTAL: Whoooo!!!

  • CRYSTAL: This is awesome. CANDY: But I'm not going to turn around.

  • CANDY: Just so I don't, you know... CRYSTAL: Yeah, I'm like ok this time.

  • The last one, I was a tad scared because it was slow and it had these bumps, so then

  • I was like, When are we gonna get there?... But this is cool.

  • Oh my gosh! Look, there's people there!

  • Oh maybe they can come from up top and come down?

  • CANDY: Oh!

  • Maybe that's it... yeah, yeah, yeah. So there's hikers behind us going on this trail.

  • I wonder how long it takes to hike up there though if this is ten minutes to get up there.

  • CANDY: That's a long hike ... oh, we're already there! CRYSTAL: Yeah.

  • That was fast. I feel like that was faster than 10 minutes.

  • That was definitely faster than 10 minutes.

  • MARIKO: Yeah, it's probably 3-5