Avery was having lots of fun ... although it took a few minutes for Avery and jaidyn to get used to it. Once they were they were saying hit those waves and this is the funnest thing in the world. 
Sunday, August 20, 2006
Avery's loving it
Avery was having lots of fun ... although it took a few minutes for Avery and jaidyn to get used to it. Once they were they were saying hit those waves and this is the funnest thing in the world.
Afternoon of fun
The kids asked if we could rent a boat after seing everyone else on the water.$93 dollars later including gas we had an hour on the lake in a seadoo boat. Just like a smaller seadoo but safe and stable. We cruised down to the Oliver end of the lake and then played around on the waves for the rest of the time
Red Sun
We spent the afternoon at the beach hanging out. While we were there we noticed that the incoming smoke from the fires had turned the sun red. Unfortunately this picture does do the color justice
Avery and I looking at the bull snake
Cameron at the camera again. Avery really was interested in the snake.
At the rattle snake show
Today we went back to the Nk'mip (pronouced inkameep) desert and cultural center.There was some great cultural shows inside and then we saw the rattle snake show. These are the Western Rattlesnake and are an endangered species. Learned lots of cool stuff about them, their habitat etc.
Looking out at the valley
We spent about 45 minutes just looking at the scenery. All of the kids were saying wouldn't it be awesome to live in a baeutiful place like this.
Cameron's Picture
Each of the kids was talking pictures this morning. I'll put the best of each of their up
First up today was the burrowing owl winery
We got there before it opened and ask one of the staff if we could walk to a gazebo which was across the vineyard.
Saturday, August 19, 2006
Dinner tonight...
...was shrimp with tender asparagus shoots, fire roasted red peppers, penne in a creamy tomato basil sauce...paired with a local 2004 Nk'Mip Merlot.....Kids got KD :)
Thank goodness for knorr frozen meals... made an awesome meal over a single burner stove in less than 15 minutes...
"Action Shot"
Was playing around with the shutter speeds on the camera trying to get an action shot showing blurred motion.. This was the best i could do without my polerzing filter which was in the truck.
Osoyoo's
We were up here to do a geo cache. Driving we were about 34M from the cache. Unfortunately stopping here at the rest stop would have meant a 300M walk down the side of a one lane highway with the kids... while i wanted to do the cache.. common sense totally prevailed and we skipped this one until one day i can come back sans kids.The view was awesome though. You can see the smoke from the forest fires nearby. In fact our tent as covered with ash this afternoon.
Why you listen to sales peoples advice...
When i bought the lense for the camera, the sales person in the store suggested i buy a $75 filter to "protect" the $1,000 lense. I accepted and bought it 3 years ago....Thank god is all i can say... not sure how it happened by it was shattered. Lense was ok, and all i'm out is a $75 lense... unfortunately no one here sells the 72mm filter i need so i'll have to gamble for the next few days....
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