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"