Canada- Revisited...

Sorry about the week delay in getting these last three days up. We got busy with the "real world". Here's a summery of the last Three Days in The Okanagan (DRINK!)

DAY 7- THE WINERIES!

So they tell us that The Okanagan (DRINK!) is like the Napa Valley of BC....hmmm well, it's not quite that, but it was still good....they actually might one up us on the view, no not actually, they really do!

We went to three wineries, each progressively better. When we got to the last (Mission Hills- where most of these views are from) Sara looked at Aaron and I an said "I am glad we did them in the order we did, otherwise this would have SUCKED!" Yep- She was right. After words Aaron, Wilf, Matt and I hit up a local brewery called Freddies. I was the DD for these gentlemen, regardless the four of us had a nice time and I got carded...guess I look younger than 19! WHAT!??

DAY 8- Our last full day in The Okanagan (DRINK!)

This morning Aaron and I started watch The Sentinel. Once Sara got her sorry butt out of bed, we played Makeup! LOL! I brought some of my Mary Kay samples up there so that I could do a "demo" with her and write off the trip (woo hoo!). We had such a fun time just going through the motions, and it was good practice for me! I loaded her up with goodies too! I think she was pretty stoked.

After lunch we took off to the Value Village looking for Aaron Moose shirt- and we were successful! Actually 5 shirts deep successful! I will post a picture of that later. Sara scored on some awesome kids books, and I got away scott free...

Thant night we dropped Bells off at the grandparents and took a drive up the MTN. and a nice hike along some summer laden (ok it was still cold 11c) ski slopes! What a Blast! I think we captured our Christmas card picture there too!

DAY 9- The Ending...

All good things must come to an end. Today we had a great breakfast with Crew at The Polson Diner (we like to call it the Poisin Diner) puzt around a bit and then headed for the Airport....this time we did NOT run through the Vancouver airport; We sat for 3.5 hours! What a stinkin long layover! We had some beer, bought some time on a Internet Kiosk (which still has 39 minutes left on it, if we ever get back there...and I remember the password) and puzt around some more, and some more, and then finally hit the tarmak and got our butts home....whew. We walked in the door at 11:00 pm- and crashed into bed!

Definitely a great trip. Thanks Sara and Matt and Isabella for housing us and showing us a good time in The Okanagan (now DRINK!) Heh hhh!

Five down...

Day Five was another nice day. We got a really late start and as a result had a really lazy morning. I flipped on the tube and watched "In Her Shoes" while Sara slept and took care of the baby and Aaron stared at me with puppy dog eyes "when are we going to go???"
Once Matt got home we took a drive with some friends of his that were in from England, and went up a back road made of gravel and up a mountain practically to try to get a "hidden" waterfall. Well we didn't make it up there until 2:00 and we were all famished so we parked ate, and gotten eaten alive by bugs, so we decided to forgo the hike up to the waterfall and drive back down to one of the trillion lakes around here. The guys had a great time in the water and throwing around the frisbee, while I read some more of The Shack and Sara and Mandy played with their little ones.
We ended the day with some gread Thai food and a bowl of ice cream. All in all a pretty lazy day, but none the less got some good pictures to share...

Hills we were driving in to find the Hidden Waterfall

















Diversion to the Lake

















Making fun of Matt's Alphalpha look

Day Three- Oh Canada!

Three days have gone by and Sara and I both have found ourselves saying "I can't believe it's been three days...it feels like we (me) should be going home like tomorrow, but we have a WHOLE week ahead of us, HOW AWESOME!
Today, we were graciously invited to Matt's parents house for a FAMOUS pancake breakfast! It was super yum, thin, almost crepe like buttermilk pancakes, made with REAL buttermilk, (which I seem to have a hard time finding in the liquid form in the states), a strawberry coulis topping and fresh bananas...oh and what I think was fresh squeezed orange juice. This was definitely a topper on our list so far!


After we ate at the Lunde's we headed out for a day at the beach. Today was clear, sunny and hot...the perfect making for a beach day! We did a little laying out in the sun and then some water frisbee...nothing too active, but refreshing none the less. Matt even dipped Issy in for a little submersion...needless to say, she didn't much appreciate it.
Sara and I went off to the store and did a little shopping...remind me to share the fantastic ice tea recipe with you all, it's like our new favorite drink.
What does tomorrow hold...well we aren 't quite sure yet, so check back in the evening and we will have a post...sorry the past couple days have been a little late...we were having "internet diffficulties...." PIRATES!

Day one in Canada!

We made it to the Lunde's almost on time... The day started out early, leaving the house at quarter after seven and we finally made it to the Lunde's avout 4:45...two flights, and one MAD dash through the Vancouver Airport, landed us here safe and out of breath!
Isabella is getting so big, and mom and dad are so proud of her...as re we! The chicky is a night owl like her mommy, she was up with us till about 11:00! WOW!
Here are som pictures from Friday.

Aaron drinking after our first flight is delayed out of SFO.









Trying out the smile detector on our new camera.