Hey there welcome back to Nicole and Mico if you are new around here we have been on the road for
the last 10 months traveling internationally and we have come home for a brief visit
and home for us is canada so in our last episode we were doing a
little hike in the beautiful canadian rockies and today we wanted to explore
more of the mountains and what a better place to do that than gorgeous banff so today we are
taking you to banff to see the sights here eat a little bit of the food here that is known to
be canadian it's beautiful it's winter it's a little chilly but warm enough to be outside
thanks very much
we grew up oh i just popped mikasa off we grabbed ourselves some tim hortons because no canadian
road trip can start without tim hortons we also got timbits so for anyone who doesn't
know what a timbit is timbits are the holes that come out of donuts when you make a donut
that is what a timber looks like and they are absolutely delicious so it's literally a donut
it's a donut hole covered in deliciousness and they're like a one a one bite donut
we are officially in banff the town of banff and one of the reasons we wanted to come out here now
is because it's snow days and normally there would be um a competition for like ice carving
but that's not happening this year so instead what they've done is
seven installations like this one you can see behind me which is a sculpture actually made out
of snow i've never seen it before i honestly had no idea what to expect but how beautiful
they've done such a wonderful job i feel like we're trapped in a era of time where everyone
lived in the mountains i feel like we're in a snow globe like one of those christmas snow globes yeah
that's what it feels like here it's just like this tiny little village everything's so like aesthetic
so something that i think is really cool about banff is that all the streets are named after like
classic canadian animals there's like bear street buffalo street and caribou street and
rabbit street i don't know i think it's kind of neat so it's like you drive down and you're
like oh just take a left on deer street please oh and then we'll take it right on bear street
yeah i don't know this seems very canadian eh okay so we're now looking for the poutine shop
to have for lunch and it's down the road left on caribou and right on bear street see i don't
i almost dropped it oh my goodness so if you're unfamiliar with poutine poutine is a super
traditional classic canadian dish it originated in quebec which is on the sort of eastern side of
canada and it is cheese curds french fries and gravy and it tastes just as delicious as it sounds
oh my gosh
that's so good man whoever thought of combining cheese gravy and fries into one bite was a genius
in case you're wondering it smells as good as it looks in here
so what'd you get oh my gosh okay so we got two things one is called a bearpaw
for obvious reasons clever i believe it's caramel inside the other one is a myrtle
we've actually never had a myrtle before look at this this thing's like the size of my face
oh my god a myrtle is chocolate obviously caramel and peanuts and from what we understand
we asked the fella in here and like a myrtle is like their their thing it's their specialty
so you can only get this in bath this is a banff exclusive chocolate bon appetit
oh that's divine that thing is huge like did i even bite it this little guy came in at about
eight dollars i think though they're not cheap but i mean that's like four chocolate bars wow
it's good right okay okay bearpaw i mean yeah paw it's so cute
okay i like this better that's yummy yes
nicole sized and it's nicole sized wow that was great dessert to follow up a poutine meal
we're going on a healthy streak today yeah let's go get ourselves coffee
a man in his dog actually it's a man of his sled dog i think i think this is our
favorite one so far it's so cute might be because it has a dog in it just maybe
that's so cool
you think it chainsaws for wood but in canada it's for snow that's how they're made in case you're
wondering you start off with a massive block of snow and then you use a chainsaw and then
you just start carving out just carve away yeah i mean it's probably more complicated than that
so behind me there's actually a really great view of sulphur mountain you can get a gondola ride up
from the town of banff up to the top of sulphur mountain where you can have some epic views
of the whole kind of mountain range area highly recommend it
we're not doing it today because it can be a little bit costly i think it's like 50
per person and we've done it before so we'll skip out on today but if you're in the area
and you got a limited amount of time to see the mountains that's a really good option
i'm embarrassed to say this but i've never been here before this is bow falls viewpoint and mico's
been here in the summer and he's like oh we should go there i'm like where what are you talking about
you're talking about it's beautiful though look at this place
in the summer this is so gorgeous like the water is flowing like like rapids up
the river there and then it comes around this corner and it goes down this like really
picturesque view of the mountains and like the water is like turquoise it's so pretty
today it's mostly like frozen and there's a little bit of uh running water that we can see
it is freezing cold let's go to fairmont yeah let's go to the bath springs go to the big hotel
welcome to the fairmont bath springs hotel it is basically a castle
the hotel really has this like vintage vibe like very yeah like mountain castle esque
so things look a little bit old but like very kind of like luxury i don't know how old the hotel is i
wish we'd looked it up we don't have any internet i don't know how old it is but i know it's old
enough to have ghosts in it so that seems to be something that people talk about whenever
they stay here is that they hear creaks and moans and things like that throughout the hotel
those moans you know
so here's one of the big reasons why you go to this hotel it's for views like this
it is beautiful you're like a castle right in the mountains you're surrounded by pine trees
and snow and if you get like if you feel like you're starting to get a little cold
you can take a dip in the pool and be outside i'm not sure if we mentioned earlier we're here
last couple weeks ago and um had some time in the pool and that was excellent
okay we have one thing left on the agenda today last thing beaver tails let's go get some
awesome thank all right we got our beaver tails oh my gosh look at this we each got
one which i think was a good choice they smell amazing just to top off this very healthy day
so you got the classic and i got the maple syrup oh my god good oh my gosh so good it's a
it tastes just like a mini donut it smells just like a mango it smells like cinnamon and
cause there's cinnamon and sugar sugar yeah and like a donut so this is the maple like sugary
flakes i think maple spread smells amazing you can break the paper have we not had this before is it
good it's so good i can't believe we've never had this i'm so glad that we just got our own
wow gotta incorporate that maple syrup you know i think we're gonna end it off on a high note
with some beaver tails it's been awesome walking around banff you should definitely come and visit
if you get a chance it is it is beautiful here any time of the year honestly if you don't even go to
the mountains just come here for the food it's been pretty yummy and i think we're gonna leave
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you next time thanks for coming and exploring our own backyard with us thanks for watching
what should i say perfect let's try this video bounce back we love ben
bam shoot we forgot to say why they're called beaver tails so i guess they're called beaver
tails because literally they kind of look like a beaver tail like they're like flattened it's
really just a donut but it's been flattened down and it is the shape and size of a beaver tail and
obviously a beaver is a very canadian animal we do have lots of them here so sorry that's what that's
what that means but now mine's almost gone but that's the relevance of the beaver tail i'm glad
we clarified that because this is definitely not a real beaver tail people are thinking
deep ride beavertail no it's donut maple covered beaver tail no we're not that canadian