Canada Day!

(I loved how the birds just sit and relax on the horses back!)

This weekend was Canada Day (July 1), so it was a long weekend for all, which is nice, I'm sitting here on a Monday morning really enjoying not being at work! You all can educate yourselves about this day at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_Day.

Andrew and I celebrated the weekend by driving first up to Merrit where we checked out his Dad's cabin that they are building and then we took out a 4x4 and went driving around in the mountains around there.

It was pretty eventful, we scouted out a lake to check out a camping spot, and we drove on the trail where they were having a horse race, that garnered us a few dirty looks, but most of them didn't mind too much. I gotta say though, it was kinda scary because the big 'ole Suburban kept shutting itself off and it wasn't always really easy to start, I really didn't like the thought of us having to hike way back a few hours to where Andrew had parked his car. Not really an appealing thought.


We even saw some cowboys, likely rustling cattle...

After we had seen all there was to see and done all we could do, we hopped back into Andrew's car and headed up to Kamloops where we visited with some friends, Dan and Cindy Sczebel and Kate Allard.

Then we drove the 2 1/5 hours home where we watched "Dog Soldiers" a British movie about werewolves, but with a title like that how can you go wrong?

All in all, it was a very pleasant day and only one speeding ticket, so what more could you ask for?



Here we are while 4x4'ing