I'm photographing Alpine Ski World Cup at Lake Louise for USA TODAY Sports, so I will be staying here for a few weeks. Here are a few photographs I took earlier today on my way to Lake Louise... It was pretty fun driving in all the snow :)

Being a professional photographer, I really don't take enough of our personal photographs... Yesterday Oliver had his first unparented swimming class, so I thought it would be a good idea to take a few photographs :) Oliver did great, our boy is growing up!

Day 14: Last blog post from our trip... quick stop in a taxi to see this beautiful view on our way to the airport :)

I wanted to find a green little frog to photograph on this trip but unfortunately I only found this poster.

On our way home!

Day 13: Last day at our resort in Costa Rica. Tomorrow we are flying home, sad and excited at the same time!

My little office.. working on my images from yesterday's trip :)

I thought it would be nice to get a photo of a last sunset on our beach in Costa Rica but unfortunately the sunset was one of the worst in all these days... Oh well, it is still not a bad place to spend an evening :)

Day 12: We rented another small 4x4 for the day and headed to explore some more of this beautiful country!

I can't say that I travel as much as some people do but I have been to some beaches and I have to say that Beaches in Costa Rica in this area are by far my favourite! So our goal for the day was to find some local beaches... we sure found some! This one is Playa Hermosa.

Last night my sister said to take a photo of a sleeping dog on the road.. well, here you go :)

We stopped at this nice restaurant for lunch.. very nice food!

Second beach stop, this time is at Playa Del Coco :) It was great to watch some locals playing football on the beach.

We do have a GPS but Tracy is my navigator for this trip so I pointed on the map and said, this looks like a nice beach for some sunset shots... I don't know how, but we always seems to find the craziest (pretty much off road) roads to get places. On our way to the beach we came across this pretty much river that we had to cross... I was happy to see that some other cars drove across, otherwise I wasn't sure :)

We made it to the beach in one piece! Beautiful place once again... This time beach at Potrero :)

Beautiful sunset once again!

Day 11: Relaxing family day :)

In the afternoon I did a mini photo session of my sister and her baby Lucas... Here are a few photographs :)

When Oliver got up from his nap we had a nice family sunset swim at the pool :)

Great time at sushi place for dinner!

Day 10: Coffee in the morning.

Followed by some swimming :)

Than some beautiful food for lunch!

After lunch my sister, Lucas, and I went for a stroller friendly hike :)

I like the look and feel of the resort we are staying in so today will be the day when I will show it a bit... I went for a walk around and took some photographs.

A nice sunset once again.. this time this is a view from our building.

Room service for dinner and bath time on our balcony to end our day!

Day 9: After all the adventures for the last two days, we took it easy today and just enjoyed swimming and relaxing. I decided I would just do a sunset blog post. Sunsets here are beautiful!

Day 8: In the morning we loaded our rental car and headed to find our adventure for the day!

Overall I think roads in Costa Rica are pretty great... but there are some interesting sections out there :)

Our timing was perfect.. as soon as we got hungry, it started to rain and we pulled in to some local place for some pizza :)

We did hours and hours of pretty hardcore off roading today... This little Toyota did great! I'm sure 99% of all Toyota Rav4 in Canada will never see this much off road in their lifetime as our car did today... great adventures! You can see the volcano in the distance... on our way!

Once again we are out for a little hike, this time, at the base of an active volcano :)

Our view from the top of the hiking trail :)

Quick stop to take in this beautiful sunset and we are ready for a very long drive back to our hotel.

Day 7: My favourite part of any vacation.. rent a car and explore! We rented a car for a couple of days and in the morning we headed to Palo Varde National Park. We were given some Costa Rican money by Tracy's mum, so this trip to the park was pretty much covered by her... Thank you!

So far, I love it here.. very beautiful and people are very friendly!

This is the coolest bird I have ever seen... if you know the name, comment below and let me know what it is!

Original plan was to go and get a boat at the park for some wild life viewing but we are here off season and the boats were not there :( We still had fun! We went on this little trail with a beautiful view at the top :)

Crazy amount of mosquitoes!!!!

Look at this big guy on a tree... this thing was huge!

We got our rented car proper dirty!

I can't complain about our little Toyota but I would rather drive one of these Land Rovers :)

Some of the roads here are very bumpy... rocks and mud... driving in the dark and with rain din't really help... but it was super fun!

My sister and her baby Lucas were voted out of our group for tomorrow because they were crying too much and we are going on another adventure without them, so comeback tomorrow for some more photos :)