July 16, 2023 - Kelowna Canyon Farms RV Park

Well here we are again.  At Canyon Farms.   We stay here every year.  This year we are here for 3 weeks  and we have already blown a week.  So I am behind in my blog.  Thanks to my friend Karen Calvert for giving me a kick in the ass to get to it!

The drive up was uneventful.  The valley traffic was brutal.  But after Hope a breeze.  And the Coquihalla didn’t have any one lane sections.  Two lanes or more.  However, it was a Saturday, so may be different on a weekday.

We had some very interesting weather the first 3 - 4 days.  Thunder and lightning. And rain!  Boy did it rain one afternoon!  POURED.  And funny our friends camping at Bear Creek Park in West Kelowna, said it didn’t rain there.

We have golfed twice.  Black Mountain and Shadow Ridge.  And I stunk both times.  Ugh.  We walked Shadow Mountain.  And Wilbur CARRIED his clubs!   Crazy!  It was over 30C.  We have golfed with our friends Connie and Lee and Lees’ sister and husband.  They very generously have been including us in their golf tee times!  Nice.  

Wilbur hiding in the shade.

The view at Black Mountain.

Connie.

Flowers I thought they did a good job on at Black Mountain.

Lee being a ham.

Lee with Wilbur’s carry bag at Shadow Ridge.

We’ve taken the dogs to the dog beach.  Joannie is learning to swim and still has her upper body out of the water to much.  But she’s game!  Weirdly Vodka was a bit hesitant.  A few years ago he was in the water like a trooper.

Wilbur finally bbq’g.

Me making blueberry pancakes.

This is but a fraction of the tools, Wilbur brings!

This is down the hill to Mission Creek.  About a half an hour walk down a switch back through the park at the end of the road, from our entrance.

Joannie and Vodka swimming in Okanagan Lake.

Oh we did a cpl wineries on one of the days, the wind whipped up.  This is the day it poured just before we got back to the trailer!  What else are you going to do on a miserable day, but visit wineries!

See the clouds forming!  It was more thunder and lightening.

It was then time for a bike ride.  We drove out to the bottom of Wood lake and biked all the way past it and half-ish up Kalamalka Lake   Which is a beautiful green if you have never seen it.   I wore a bathing suit and had a dip.

Then we headed back and proceeded to lose Wilburs towel  so we turned around and threw the bikes in turbo (yes electric bikes….I am OLD), and blasted back, 10 mins at least.  To find a man rolling it up, ready to put in his back pack.  He very generously handed it over.  No conflict.  We chatted.. thanked him for rescuing out towel and turned around and blasted back on turbo.

Time for a stop.  Beer and pizza…and then THIS happened.  Wilbur took an offshoot and I drove to the sidewalk.  And proceeded to lose my balance, because I am a freakin KLUTZ, and fell off the sidewalk into the road.  So first, I didn’t get run over.  Thankfully.  However, I mashed myself pretty good.  Some women stopped and asked if I was OK, as I was scraping myself off the pavement.  I said I think so, (all my parts worked, with no bones sticking out) and then dragged the bike and myself back onto the sidewalk.  The handle bars were moved off center, so I had to balance the bike tire between my knees and straighten them.  Then I walked over to where Wilbur was.  He didn’t see any of this, as it was around trees and hedges..  he threw up his arms like …”where the hell have you been”… I held up my elbow and said “I fell”!

So instead of the burger shack he had stopped at, I said I need a drink a real place to sit.  So we rode, carefully, a half a block away to this really good pizza place, Pane Vino Pizza… 

I headed to the washroom and washed my elbow and knee and road rash.  Came back to table and ordered beers and pizza.  And Wilbur pulled out the first aid kit.  That we know he only carries because of me!    Finished the first beer and another was ordered.

Me and my boo boos.

All bandaged up and eating and BEER.

Cute little Italian, 3 wheeler van, at the restaurant.

Seriously I could have been ran over so easy.  I’m lucky that it is the land bridge area, between Wood Lake and Kalamalka Lake…so everyone is going really slow.

And ya the bike is OK.

After the beer and pizza we still had a 30 minute ride to the truck.  

Today our friends Connie and Lee very graciously drove up here for a visit.  I had appies and wine for them.  Nice visit.  And forgot to get a picture.