Greg's wonderful grandparents sprung for a weekend in Banff for the whole family.
We headed out early Friday morning after droping the dog off at our friends house.
After 20 min of driving around to find parking we were able to hit some shops on the main street. The kids and I loved the sunglasses
Next was dinner at Squish
Sandwich shop hopes to bring something new to Banff
Curiosities about the sandwiches at Banff Avenue's newest sub shop are mounting — how do they taste, what do they look like — but they are soon to be squashed, because Squish is tentatively preparing to open its doors on Saturday, Jan. 15. However, in the meantime, owner and sandwich aficionado Greg Piwnicki has all the answers, but really, what it all boils down to, is there is just one thing everyone needs to know.
"We're going to rock your world," Piwnicki laughs.
But, when The Crag sampled the super-secret-recipe Squish specialty, the Montreal smoked-meat sandwich last week, it was no joke.
After having to cut the sandwich in half (twice) it was still a mouthful, and a tasty mouthful at that. And Piwnicki takes his pride and joy sandwich very seriously.
"If you don't do it properly, it's a joke, and it won't go over well," he said. "We don't claim to have invented this, we just present it, but we won't serve anything that isn't perfect."
His definition of perfect includes "being able to see your meat and cheese in your sandwich" and "value for money."
Serving up chicken club, roast beef, Ruben, salmon bagel, tuna, veggie, and jumbo prawn sandwiches, with sides of chips, pickles, coleslaw, soups and salads, along with Danish pastries, croissants, New York cheesecake, along with old-fashioned milkshakes, pop, hot chocolate, and coffee, Piwnicki is creating a sandwich empire, all in the $10 a meal price range.
"The idea is for people to come and have fun, and enjoy themselves. I want people to feel comfortable, to leave happy, and to not break their bank," he said.
A Bow Valley resident of 15 years, and full-time carpenter for 37 years, Piwnicki has decided to switch gears.
"I want to have fun, and meet new people," he said.
Sandwiches aren't anything new to him though; he knows his favourite deli in any given state — Jerry's Famous Deli in Studio City, Cali., is the top shop — next to Squish, of course. With ketchup, mustard, and relish colours as the main palette in the sandwich cellar, as well as a busy city street mural against the main wall, Squish is a cozy place to sit down and share lunch with a friend. Not to mention, have a sandwich too.
"The sandwich is so huge, you have to squish it to get it in your mouth," Piwnicki said.
This is a post I found about squish. It was that amazing, Greg and I shared a Ruben and the kids shared a Nathan hot dog the total bill was 21.00 not bad for banff. If you are ever in Banff please try this place you will not be disapointed.
This is half the sandwhich minus a few bites
Greg thought it was so good
My son is going through this really wierd bad smiling phase. It drives me CRAZY
So after lunch we went for a drive to see if we could find some wild life, we were driving around and Morgan said I saw one so we turned around and found this wonderful elk. Great eye miss Morgan. We were able to get so close we could have touched it, we didn't because I am a giant chicken but I was able to get this amazing phot
After that we headed to the hotel/condo where we were all staying. We yet again stayed at Douglas Fur and again it was great.
http://www.douglasfir.com/u/specials.phtml
The kids in the condo with there new sticker book from Brian and Alex
Sat we all headed into Banff to do somemore sightseeing and lunch. We went to Tommys bc we had heard it was so good..... it was not but we had a great time and the server was really good since 20 of us showed up at once
Wayne and his "glass" of rum
After the trip into Banff we came back had a sleep went one the water slides then the pool, dinner and then it was off for more visiting. Pat was telling some jokes and making us laugh so hard that we ended up getting three notices to be quiet, after the 4th and final "be quiet or we will ask you to leave" we helped to "old" people to bed and headed up to the "party room"
Wayne came up to party with us young kids
My husband..... nothing but class ;)
After a late night we got up early for the great easter egg hunt
As I was loading my photos I realized that I have no photos of Morgan hunting eggs, she is just to darn fast for me
After that we headed to Banff Springs for brunch
These choc bunnies were amazing.
Miss Morgan fav thing
The easter bunny came to brunch as well
Kyle and Hale --both of them got sick over the weekend :(
Kyle Candice and the newest (still cooking) girl to join the family
Greg and I took the kids for a walk after brunch, they had to stop and have a little rest as they were so full
We had an amazing weekend with an amazing family.
Thank you again Grandma and Grandpa
Stay tuned for Banff part two
