XD you were there two weeks ago?! Oh man! That must be something! See, there's a lake here in the states that I want to go to, it's called Flathead Lake, it's in Montana, but apparently the water is so clear, even at the deepest part of the lake you can see straight to the bottom! So I can only imagine what that must look like (:

See I felt that Banff was short for something, so Banffshire makes plenty of sense. Ah, well, don't worry about the pictures ^.^ I hope to go one day!

Have you seen The Martian? Cuz it sounds like you watched it x) but seriously you're right about that. We may be able to change the environment on Mars, make it more hospitable, but without an atmosphere, it'll be extremely hard. 

[s]I'm going to go look up ammolites! I'll let you know what I think![/s] They're beautiful! And they come from a creepy squid demon beast D: but beautiful nonetheless! 

Yes, Arizona is awfully humid because it's below sea level, where as here in New Mexico, most towns are at 6,000ft, you notice the difference driving from New Mexico to Arizona, if you go through Flagstaff, you're driving through the mountains, but you're going down, so the mountains look bigger over there, but the tallest mountain they have, I believe is about... 8,000 ft? The one here in town where I live is 13,000ft. 

And I hate cacti >.> I fell on one once during a hike and I had my boyfriend pick needles out of my backside. So don't hug one! Cuz they aren't friendly, those bastards.