White Winter | Canada – life thru mash

— Calgary AB, Canada

Funny how I did all my posts on America and completely forgot about my trip across the border to Calgary right after I left Savannah, Georgia last year…

So at the end of Fall quarter 2016 in Savannah (GA), I flew over to Canada at the start of my Winter break for 10 days (24th Nov – 3rd Dec) to visit my first cousins in Calgary! It was my first time seeing snow, witnessing a snowfall, immersing myself in a ‘real’ Winter and experiencing the true Thanksgiving/Christmas spirit in a proper Western country (outside of Hong Kong).

Goodbye, America

Savannah Intl Airport

This holiday is one that i’ll never forget since I had the opportunity to meet my favourite and closest cousin brother – but most importantly, his family that I hadn’t seen in the last decade. It felt so great spending time with them and catching up with our lives and bonding over endless Tim Hortons’ french vanillas.

Highlights:

First snowfall at Banff National Park
Walking on a frozen Lake Louise
Road trip to Jasper (4am – 10am)
Sunwapta Falls at Jasper
Kananaskis, The Rocky Mountains
Black Friday shopping
Basically everything.

All of these places allowed me to witness such magnificent and divine beauty that one could only ever dream about; from a night with a blanket of stars so clear and bright, to magical frozen lakes and mystical snow-capped mountains. I can’t even put it into words, the whole experience was surreal and indescribable – forever inked in my mind. I was eternally grateful for having the opportunity to visit and head back home with a happy heart, best end to my three and a half month long stay in North America! Hope to come back again for more.