Monday, May 23, 2011

May 20th to 22nd - Summerland & Logan Lake BC

May 20th – Fri – to Summerland BC
We packed up, dumped the tanks and were on our way at 8:20 under beautiful, clear skies. We stopped at the duty free store to get a couple of bottles of booze since we had left everything behind and didn’t have any problems after a 5 minute wait at the border. We did have to throw out the few veggies that I hadn’t taken to Georgia but we knew that would happen. Terry hoped that if we had a few things to throw out that we wouldn’t be subjected to any kind of search – seems like it worked.
We stopped for a hamburger for lunch and were set up in Auntie Jessie’s driveway shortly after 2. We checked out her house and were starting to catch up on everything when cousin Cheryl and her 2 daughters Ashley & Drew stopped by for a while. Then it was time to make cabbage rolls for dinner.

May 21st – Sat – Summerland
Auntie Jessie had been up for hours by the time I went in for a shower. We weren’t that late, she usually gets up very early. First I had to put on the shower head and after the shower had to wipe up the floor as the shower curtain was not installed. Auntie Jessie moved back into her house after having it rented out and there was a lot of damage and more work than she can handle in a short time. She had a shower curtain which was too big so after coffee we cut it in half and I took it to the rig to sew the raw edges so she now has 2 curtains. Terry & I made short work of putting up the rod & curtain. Next we moved one picture and hung a new one – again easy for us but not so easy for Jessie. Then it was on to the garage where we carried her winter tires and a small freezer into the basement.
Auntie Jessie had to go to a grand re-opening of the bakery in town that she & Uncle Tom used to own and we had to take her since her car was blocked by our 5th wheel. We left her to cut the cake and walked to cousin Cheryl & her husband Paul’s natural food store where cousin Terry also works so I was able to chat with her for a while.
Next on the list was shopping trip to Penticton. I won’t include the whole story but after lunch and a stop for Jessie to buy bras (!!) we finally got a mattress, box spring and a frame loaded on our truck and headed back – with a stop for produce on the way. We carried her old mattress & box spring downstairs (split entry, 2 sets of stairs), dismantled the old head/foot board and took it downstairs , carried in the new mattress and set it up on the new frame from which we had to remove the casters as the bed was too high for petite Jessie to get up on easily. Then we reassembled the head/foot board and set up the bed in the basement.
We didn’t have too much time for a short break and dinner prep before cousin Glen, cousin Kelly & wife Sam and Cheryl, Paul, Ashley, Drew and youngest daughter Adrianna arrived for dinner. We had lots of hugs – hello and goodbye - and a good dinner.

May 22nd – Sun – to Logan Lake
It poured rain last night and was cloudy this morning when we left just after 9. We parked our truck & 5th wheel in a WalMart parking lot in Westbank where Ernie & Dianne (met in Mesa) picked us up for breakfast. They are not familiar with Westbank so we drove over the bridge to Kelowna where they live and had breakfast at a De Dutch restaurant. The restaurant was very busy which was great as it gave us time to chit-chat. We were back at our truck and on our way across The Connector to Merritt at 11:20.
Cousin Pat was at a movie with daughter Morgan so Rick helped us wiggle our 5th wheel into their back driveway. Our slides are so close to the porch on one side and the fence on the other that we have to walk around to the front door rather than down the side of the rig to the back door. After Rick had a sandwich for lunch, we all went for a walk. No matter the route, you always have to come back uphill to the house so we all took a little rest to look over the town on the way back.
After drinks and a good dinner (thanks in part to Rick!) we settled down to a serious game of Hand & Foot Canasta. The guys won and I thought their luck and the women’s bad luck could not possibly last so suggested another game. You would think I would know from casinos that bad luck does last so the lack of wild cards for Pat & I meant the guys won again. Oh well, we are here for a couple more days so a rematch is possible.

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