Canadian Wine Tour

The locals told us we needed to visit the Okanagan Valley in British Columbia in  order to try Canadian wines.  They said it was only an 8 hour drive through the mountains so we thought we would take a quick trip on one of Rolo's three day weekends.  Now that we are back in North America, he gets those every other week again.  So we went last weekend.

Well, it wasn't exactly 8 hours...  With all the rush to finish road construction projects before the winter starts, there were quite a few slow downs in the mountains, and we hit the only large city in our path right at Friday afternoon rush hour, so it was a 10 1/2 hour drive to get there on Friday.  But it was a beautiful drive through the mountains, and we had the opportunity to see lots of new stuff.

We stayed at a little hotel on the beach of Lake Okanagan, and found out from the owners that was their last weekend open before closing for the winter.  It wasn't very busy.  Saturday, we visited several wineries and were able to find some nice ones to bring home including ice wine, and port style wines for Rolo.

We took Hannah with us on the trip - she didn't find the wine tasting interesting, but she did enjoy chasing the Canadian geese off the beach back onto the lake.  In fact I think she really enjoyed the lake - kind of like her days in the canals.  Of course she smelled much better afterwards.

The drive home was much quicker on Sunday since all the construction sites were idle.  I think we might go back, but plan to take a few more days.  I'm still not adjusted back to those long distances and drives in the car.  But it's great to have a nice comfortable car to drive here.