Hello followers of our blog. Lots of things have happened since our last blog on March 1, 2011.
It's taken me a long time to get over the loss of my Weaverdog, but I'm finally understanding that having a pet is a huge responsibility when we are so busy. I've put on a lot of weight because I just sat in the house to keep warm this past Spring. What a miserable time we've had here in our beautiful North Okanagan. The weather finally started to act like summer near the end of July and August was lovely and warm. It made great golfing weather.
We are going down to Lo de Marcos Nayarit in a month or so and we are going in our new (to us) rig.
Our lovely old Southwind is now sitting on a RV lot waiting anxiously for its new owner and ours is sitting in our RV parking waiting to go out again on Saturday morning. This will be its third trip since we got it in June in Chilliwack, BC. It, is Dos, our second and much newer rig. He is a 2006 Tiffin Allegro Open Road model 32.6 ft in length - not 34 feet that we were led to believe by the RV dealer. They only had to get a measuring tape out to see that it is shorter.
Our real first trip was home from the dealer. The drive over the Coquihalla highway was fine. We had no trouble going up or coming down. Our second trip was to Lloydminster, Sk to visit my sister and bro-in-law at Sandy Beach which is north on Hwy 17. The weather was very nice but windy and some rain so we didn't get much golfing in. We stayed at a Casino parking lot east of Canmore, AB the first night and the second night at the Wal-Mart in Vegreville, AB. Our family reunion was cancelled this year due to unforeseen circumstances but we stopped in Edmonton to say hello to Mike's auntie Jennie and his uncle Joe. They were both home so it was nice to stop and say hello. We also stopped at Mike's old home on 41st Street.
Another Mike H. lives there now and Mike H's wife Debbie gave him a tour. My Mike's Dad built that house and hubby lived there until his Dad moved his family to the beautiful Shuswap country. From Vegreville, Mike drove about 50 km and pulled over; saying it was my turn to drive. What a difference 16 years makes in the stability and ease of driving. I drove Dos the rest of the way and stopped just before the Home Depot in Lloyd so Mike could take over driving us around the city to Hwy 17 and north to S.B.
In case you golfers are interested, there is a very nice nine hole golf course at Sandy Beach. Right now though, all the greens are oiled sand greens. Not too many of them left around nowadays.
Hubby, myself and my soeur, along with one other lady, went into a golf tournament at Silver Lake. I'd never heard of the place but there is a lake there and a very nice golf course. It is sufficient to say that we never won anything, except for Mike who got a KP and won $5.00.
My bro-in-law is a very hard worker but when he gets home he likes nothing better than to grab his geetar and make music. On Friday night we had a jam session at their home. It was a very interesting event. Seestor made a big pot of chili and we bought buns and potato salad and everyone filled up before the music started. I won't go into the old time dance we attended because the band came to the house to play again for a smaller audience.
Time to leave and home again by the beginning of the August long weekend.
More news to come on future blogs. Sorry I didn't use my camera at all on this last trip. I guess I could throw some pics in somewhere here but not right now.
Cheers from the Holoidays still on holiday
