10/13/07 Princeton, Osoyoos and Highway 3

We've been in Beautiful British Colombia for 8 days now and it gets better and better. I finally hit a
highway that said 100KM (about 63MPH), until then it had been 80KM max, (that's 55mph) Canada is
making up for the high speed driving in Germany. We spent yesterday in Princeton, we camped out at a juice stop with WIFI,
Steve is working a bit and I am stilll trying to find a long term tenant for our house. I was able to talk with a friend using ichat (a mac to mac internet chat for free which includes video, technology is wonderful!) We took a nice bike ride around the town, got Reese's bike gears fixed, wd40'd all the bikes and soaked up the sunshine.

So we've been driving under 100 miles a day, cruising along and enjoying the scenery. We spent a day in Hope (that is my neice's name, so we had to go there, we played in the park, rode our bikes around, walked the main street, ate Beet Borsch soup with sour cream.. i did, Steve would have none of it. We enjoyed the sunshine, we've had 3 days in a row now, beautiful sunny days and starry starry nights. We rolled out in the morning, it was a brisk 30 degrees, but heated up to 53 later in the day. The boys and I stopped to play in the creek, built dams, skipped rocks, and generally soaked up the incredible beauty.

I can't believe how much i love to watch my children play, almost as much as i like to take pictures of them in gorgeous scenery. Reese built prayer rock towers and Luc fished with a big stick, we looked for heart shapped rocks and crystal rocks.

We spent the night at the Princeton Golf Club, they have 20 or so RV spots there and the scenery was very nice. The season is over here, it was the last day of golf and when we woke up and it was 28 degrees with frost on the ground, we knew why. Many of the RV parks, bike shops, recreation in general is closed already, the shops say closed, but list the owners phone numbers and say call if you need us, we live close by.. gotta love that small town feel.

Today we drove through Keremeos, a farming town, with orchard after orchard after orchard, 20 or so fruit stands, winerys, and lots of pumpkin displays. We arrived in Osoyoos 40 minutes later and parked right on the lake that surrounds the town on both sides. We fed ducks, swans, and seagulls, rode our bikes from one end of town to the other, Reese worked on his drawing and did a bit of reading and writing, Luc built Lego Star Wars space ships and explained to me how the game went, he is amazing how his stories flow.

When the sun set, we went in search of our RV park, we scored, it had a heated indoor pool, jacuzzi, game room, ping pong, pool tables, and WIFI. We played and played.. and the stars were out putting on quite the show.. we are gonna spend 2 nights here for sure.