Thursday, October 13, 2011

Google

Before we left Vernon, Carol spotted the Google mapping vehicle. I checked and we are now on it. We are in the passing lane, second vehicle in. I almost missed it as we are only in two frames. Yves and Sandi crossed the border a few minutes ago with clear sailing. We will be along soon!

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

End of Summer

 We must be going on a trip. How can you tell?? Yves and Roy are under the trailer welding. This was the water tank whick came off in Mexico.

 Our caravan at a rest stop, on our way to Red Deer. Yves and Sandi's rig, our rig and Doug and Adelle's rig. My tranny blew in Cochrane, so I high tailed it into Red Deer to get it fixed.

 We had a mens day out and went to a wrecker north of  Red Deer, where they had hundreds of cars from the fifties. This place was on an episode of Canadian Pickers.

 Down the road was the Reynolds Car Museum. They had cars and farm equipment.

 Another one of the displays, a Corvair van and a 58 Buick.

 I couldn't resist getting a picture with my signs at the Dodge main parts distribution for western Canada.

 Carol with her sisters Frieda and Shirley. Larry and Shirley came out to the Okanagan on their maiden voyage of their new motor home. Raudz is an excellent restaurant in Kelowna with all local ingredients and a famous chef.

 The end of summer was a block party concert by our friend Rob and his band, The Dial Tones. (Mostly retired Telus guys, hence the name). Gold old rock and roll.

 Some people rolled an old VW through the set.

 Here's the host of our party, Rob's wife Chantelle with Carol, Sandi and Dixie. We had an excellent pot luck between sets.

 A club of Pontiac Solstice/Saturn Sky vehicles had a rally through the Okanagan. They don't build these anymore as GM shut down both Pontiac and Saturn, so these are now collectable. There were over a hundred from the western provinces and the western states.

This was our RV park for the past 5 months at Swan Lake. We left and are in Abbotsford visiting for a few weeks before heading back south for winter.

Summer

 Summer was mostly spent in Vernon. Here are some grandkids learning to swim.

 And juice and popsicles after.

 Jonah and Zada helping walk Mocha at her favourite dog park, with streams and trails through the forest.

 I call this the Red Neck Crew at Nascar. George and Della came out for a visit and we went to Nascar. Here's Carol, Della, George, Sandi, Yves and Roy.

 Photo finish.

 Carol and Roy had a picnic at their property.

 Car show downtown Vernon.

 Back to the race track where we saw the RV trailer races. That was something to see, pieces of trailers flying everywhere.

 Carol took Lexi to Build a Bear and she made a Hello Kitty. Here she is putting the heart in.

 Made a nice pillow for the trip home.

Grandkids at Melanie's new place.