BC ADVENTURE...........THANKSGIVING WEEKEND

THE BEAUTY OF THE EARTH

First of all I must say.....

Hats off to the 'cooks'

Nikki, Jane and Ted are here for the harvest

Mark came down for a few days of picking and was going to give Lyndsay a hand with the press on Friday

It's a full house!

Nikki and Jane share the suite

Matt is in the air stream

Mark pitched a tent in the backyard

We're in the shack

Each night someone or a group are in charge of dinner

This was the gang Thursday night

Friday morning Joe and I left the vineyard to spend Thanksgiving weekend with Jennifer

First stop

Gas station in Merritt

As you can see....a lumber yard across the street

We took the back way to Whistler

Lots of logging trucks on the road

Now this is a fifth wheel all in one!

Here comes the train

Salmon are running

The train would have gone though the tunnels

I was in awe of the scenery

This is just passed Spence's Bridge

Ted's wife Karine paddle boarded down the river

A bit too close for comfort

No middle line here!

We stopped for lunch at Lillooet

Decisions

Wendys??

Subway??

We decided we would like a nice hot bowl of soup

Thus

This is where we ended up!

Mushroom soup on the menu

HA

Campbell's Soup

The cook didn't even mix it with milk

NOPE

Water

All I can say is.....

IT WAS HOT

This takes my breath away!

Coming into Pemberton

Fairmont Hotel

Meeting Jennifer at work

This is her office!!!!!

She and her gardening staff meet here each morning

to discuss the day

Iris

We met Ted and Marla Saturday morning for breakfast at 

the Fairmont

Yum Yum

One of Jen's homemade signs

Look at the mushrooms

They used mushroom manure in the gardens this season

Mushrooms coming up everywhere!!!!!!!

Maple leaf forever

Gwendolyn took over the couch

She loves getting in with the pillows

Spoiled?

Spoiled rotten

Sea to Sky Gondola

Squamish

Our Mother and Father's day gift from Jennifer

At the top of the lift

I was running downstairs to the washroom

A Bride was coming up the stairs

First thing out of my mouth

OH MY GOODNESS.........

She gave me a big grin!

Wasn't expecting to see a Bride

Of course when I came back upstairs

I was on a mission to find the Bride

'Happy Day'

I said to her

She just beamed!!!!!!

We are ready for a hike!!!!!!!!!!

I don't think this tree is going to last much longer

NEAT

Along the trail we came across a wee baby tucked in his Dad's jacket

A three day old baby!

I asked if I might take a photo of the baby if I did not show his face

Dad was quite willing to have the baby's face in the photo

Way back when................

babies were born in 1966 

This Mother (me) stayed in hospital for seven days

Here is a mountain Mommy hitting the trails three days after giving birth

Times have changed ha ha

Jen telling us all about the different pine trees

The Bride and Groom

Before going down the mountain we treated ourselves to a hot cup of coffee and a muffin/oatmeal cookie

View was spectacular

Interesting how the clouds came and then left

View from Jennifer's condo

Snow on the mountain Sunday morning

Rain rain go away

Come again another day

Alice in front of Jen's pug collection

Steamer in background

The steamer has many stories

It belonged to my cousin Margaret

Viognier 2012 

Sunday evening we had dinner at the Rimrock Cafe at Whistler

We chose from the tasting menu

We ordered a bottle of Graham and Lyndsay's wine

Soooooo exciting to be able to do that

I brought the empty bottle home!!!!!!

Coming home from Squamish we stopped at Merritt for a bowl of soup

THE SOUP WAS DELICIOUS

We found out Merritt used to be .......

Country Western Music capital of Canada

Here in the photo is a picture of Loretta Lynn

and

Her hand prints!

Last day for the kids on the vineyard

Nikki Jane and Ted

There she is!!