September - October, 2009

We spent time with Herb & Maureen, Denis's brother and family in Quesnel catching up with everyone. Thanksgiving was great, we eat thanksgiving dinner at friends and then another at our daughter and family in Williams Lake. We bought a different vehicle that we can tow behind the motorhome and Denis (and I) are happy to be rid of the dolly.
We spend time with Denis's cousin in Cranbrook and they are traveling down in January and we plan to meet up with them in Quartzite. From there we spent time in Castlegar with our other son (hockey player that stayed with us about 20 some ago. We hadn't seen him for two years and enjoyed his wife and 2 children. He gave us some Elk and Deer meat that we had to bring across the border. After that visit we traveled to Calgary to visit Denis' sister and brother. When we were leaving we discovered that we had some trouble with the motorhome so were delayed until Denis fixed it. We made it to Milk River, Alberta last night (halloween) and crossed the border (without any trouble)at Sweetgrass, Montana to arrive at White Sulphur Springs today. We encountered some snow passing through the Lewis and Clark National Forest but we were 7000 ft up so what would you expect this time of year.

Out of Manning Park - September 28,2009

Well we are finished with Manning Park and heading for Camperland in Bridal Falls where we will spend a few days. There was snow on the mountains the morning we left so it was time to leave. We met up with Maureen Monkman who is visiting here step dad in Chilliwack. Linda and John joined Maureen and us for dinner. We plan on going to Williams Lake to see our daughter and family.

Princeton - August 4,2009

We decided to go to Princeton and on to Kerameous for the day to get some fruit to make salsa. We stopped in Princeton for breakfast and on to Hedley and visited the our mining town. The old town is small with lots of history. Then we went on to Kerameous to get the fruit. We spent some time at all the fruit stands there. On the way back we had lunch-dinner at an old pub which housed the mine's owner and family at one time. Don't know when we will get the salsa done as we all work tomorrow.

Manning Park activities

We have finally managed to do some activities here at Manning. We did some trail hikes and went canoeing on Lightening Lake with Jeanette and Dale. The weather has been either very hot or rainy with thunder storms. We had hail the other evening. This is the extremes here, so we just have to enjoy the changes that it brings. We had six lightening fires the other day and watched the helicopter doing the water dips in Lightening Lake. We now have a fire ban here in the park that doesn't make the campers too happy.

Manning Provincial Park - June 6 to ---

We are spending the summer at Manning Park about 40 minutes from Hope or Princton, B. C.

It is a working holiday with friends we met in California. We are very busy at the moment with all the vacationers in the four camping areas. Denis and I clean the sites after the campers leave as well as do the garbage and pit toilets. I do one night at the gate house and one day collecting to relieve the ladies and am in charge of the two group camps. Their is also painting and weed wacking, etc. to be done if anyone has time on their hands. I am hoping to get in shape during our time here but after work it is happy hour and appies so guess there isn't any hope of that. They have a pool and weight room at the resort that we can use and there are many, many trails to walk but with groceries and house work (yeh) the time goes fast. It is hard to believe we are nearly half way through the summer here.

Vicki and Pete were here for a couple of weeks and we seen them every day during working hours and they had us for a supper of buffalo burgers. It was great seeeing them again.

Jeanette and Dale are here working also and we enjoy their company along with a new couple we met Terry and Pam who live in their motorhome and travel south for the winter.

One camper said he was glad they are getting rid of the young people and hiring retirees. The people are from all over the world and very nice to talk too.