Banff on a rainy day (7/24)

We a woke to pouring rain this morning and very cold temps, in the 40's.  What to do on a rainy day?  Put on your rain coat and drive into town.  We went to the visitor center to get ideas of what we wanted to do an see if reservations were needed for the Glacier Adventure we planned on doing Sunday.  Once through there we found a Starbucks and had some hot tea and a latte. The place was packed, we managed to find seats in front of the window where we could sit and enjoy our drinks and people watch, plus use there WiFi as we do not have any here.
I did manage to get phone service but it is all roaming and very expensive, only to be used in emergencies.  A call is .59 a minute, text is .20 and I don't even want to think what data costs. Of course everything is international and that is why it is so expensive.  Money is another thing to get used to. Their dollar is only worth .89 in US money.  We used credit cards a lot to save money.  Gas/Diesel is almost $5 a gallon, anywhere from 1.20 to 1.45 a liter.  I finally added a conversion app to help us know what we were spending. Two hamburgers with fries and one soda was over $40.
We did have lunch at a little restaurant called Tooloulou's, the food was great and the prices were reasonable compared to other restaurants.

While I enjoyed some shopping for souvenirs, Joe went back for the camera to capture the town. It looks like the storm is breaking up for the moment, but not for long, it rained off and on all day.

I found a great t-shirt that shows a bear dragging a camper out of his tent, the saying, Canadian take out!
There are a lot of Grizzlies out here and you really need to be careful.  I am hoping to see on behind a fence at a distance.
Once back at the park I settled in for a raining day of reading and Joe went hiking.