Musings and Junk: Okanagan Love

Why look, it’s already time to sigh and say things like “ugh” because the weekend is so far away from now. That’s ok though, because here I am to save the day and entertain you! Let me tell you a quick story about my days off. A friend of mine said we should go camping in the Okanagan because it’s beautiful there and I haven’t been there yet or camped in a long time. So naturally, I said “sweeeeet, let’s do it!” and off we went on a four hour car ride to get there. Now, it was raining in Vancouver (nothing new there) but the Okanagan was not going to be the same.

On the road we were and excited for our 1 night adventure, I got to see some cool places that I hope I can visit later on. I saw the beautiful mountains up close and personal which took my breath away. I spotted some Elk along the way…or maybe deer? I don’t really know the difference so forgive my ignorance please!

Anyway, moving on, we go to the area we were going to camp in just to find out that it was also pouring there! We had my friend’s little boy with us as well so we pondered on whether it was a good idea to camp and decided to find a place to stay for the night instead.

Our poor unused tents and our alternative tent haha

That brought up to Osoyoos, BC in the early evening, which turns out, will be where I retire! I fell in love with this city as soon as we entered it! It’s a cute place surrounded by beach, fresh fruit stands and vineyards as far as the eye can see. Yup, sounds like heaven to me plus I love saying the name, it’s so fun! Oh right, I was telling you what happened, ok so we found a place to stay, put our stuff away and decided to go to the beach for a walk. It had stopped raining for the moment and it was a bit windy but it was worth doing because the view was beautiful!

After our walk, we decided we would go back to eat and enjoy the view from where we were staying. We pulled out her camping stove..bbq…thing and made hotdogs to at least pretend we ended up camping. After hanging outside for a while, we settled inside and turned the TV on and saw the news. It then made sense why there was so much rain all over after I saw the piece on the flooding in Alberta. I truly hope that all those that are affected receive the help they need. It made me very appreciative that all we had was rain where we were. So the next day we took advantage of where we were!

We woke up all excited to get our day started! We had breakfast and hit up a couple of fruit stands but we were two weeks too early for all the varieties that become available. It’s ok though, I bought some cherries and nectarines, and man oh man, are they yummy! Hopefully I’ll get to try the rest some other time. After that, I got to try wine tasting and yes, I will do a lot of wine drinking in my retirement haha

We went to four different vineyards (and no her son did not have any) and I bought a bottle at two of them. A Chardonnay from Gold Hill Winery which is a small family owned company and a Moscato D’Osoyoos from LaStella Winery. The latter is a very sweet white wine so I know not everyone would love it, but I sure do!

Once we were done, it was time to head back home and thankfully the sky stayed pretty clear for the ride home and only started spitting at us once we were close to home. We did stop by Manning Park and got to see and feed some Marmots plus a statue of a big bear along with instructions on what to do if you see one…eeep scary.