Conestoga Campgrounds, White Sulphur Springs, Montana

We traveled to White Sulphur Springs, Montana for our first day across the border. It was a good campsite but right out in the open and windy. We woke to chilling temperatures and got under way.

Visit with granbson

I took two weeks off from Manning at the end of August to fly to Ottawa to visit with our daughter and son and family. Gramma put our grandson, Sam through training at gramma camp. We visited Gordon (from Thomas the train), spent time at all his favorite place. I had a great visit and I was able to help our youngest daughter get her condo ready to sell. She sold it to the second people that looks at it and that was good as she had already purchased a house.

Sam (4 yrs) helped gramma get around Ottawa whenever we got lost. He would say turn here gramma.

Tanya and I also drove to Barrie, Ontario to visit my mom for her 89 birthday. We had a good visit and found her in good spirits.

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.