In 2017 when Canada turned 150, I turned 26. My boyfriend helped organize a trip for us to go to Alberta with my sisters, and that was the best birthday trip of my life! Sometimes when you’ve been looking forward to something for so long, and you’ve hyped up everything about it in your head for years; when it finally happens – it’s a little lackluster. Well – this wasn’t the case at all! Banff lived up to everything I’ve dreamed of, and dare I say, more?