Christmas has become increasingly tricky. It feels like you struggle to find the perfect gift only to realize you missed the mark, or someone wants a receipt to return it. Shopping is even harder in Yellowknife so to escape this you turn to gift cards, but in the end it is passing money around. We decided to get out of the game and Christmas will be about experiences with the family. So this year we spent Christmas in Banff. The challenge with this approach is getting out of Yellowknife is a long drive- as long as getting out of Ontario, but without the towns and villages to go by. Flying is clearly faster, but with four passengers extremely expensive. So driving it was. It takes a full day to drive to High Level, Alberta which is neither high nor level, not sure who named the place but they clearly don't get around much. Hands down the best part of the drive was definitely the bison. Day two we drove to Hinton Alberta and due to a GPS error on our part, we could only gli...