Vacation

So I guess I should write at least a small post about my vacation. I warn you, it's going to be short. I don't really feel like writing this today.

It was an amazing trip. Next time we do it, I would like to go with our friends.

The one thing I would change is I would not drive too and from Sicamous in one day. That's right. We drove for over 9 hours twice during our trip. It's just too long to be sitting in a car.
The other thing I wouldn't do is take Nick's Dad's car. It's the only car I have ever seen that can actually slow down while going down hill if you take your foot off the gas. It has absolutely no guts. To get it to gain any speed after it reached 90km/h, you had to force it up to 5000rpm. And then it sounded like it was going to blow up. Poor Car.

We all left Sunday morning. From Edmonton to Revelstoke. Nick drove most of this way. Monday morning we drove from Revelstoke to Sicamous. This was a short trip. We were in Sicamous at 9AM. Turns out we didn't need to be there till about noon. I hate being forced to waste time when you really can't wonder too far.

And then it was onto the houseboat. Ship of Dreams. Its a good name for a houseboat.
3 nights on private beaches (1 on a public party beach - we had to be back at the dock for 9:30 and so had to park closer which means a public beach). 2 days with +30 weather. I even managed to tan my legs a little bit. And I was clever enough not to burn anything else.

Swimming and eating was most of the activity. I even got conned into jumping off the top of the houseboat. An 8 year old with big blue eyes made me feel weak because she had been doing it all morning and she said she would do it with me. How could I say no to that?

And then it was the long drive home. Nick's cousins, who we were car pooling with wanted to be back for Friday night. We left Sicamous about noon on Friday and I will never drive that again without stopping for the day. It's too long. Me and nick left most of the driving to his cousins because we wanted to stop and weren't going to bust ourselves so that they could get back to the city that night. But I did drive the Rogers Pass (Revelstoke to Golden). Woot me. That licence is so close I can taste it.

Another big exciting mention. On the way home, a fairly large buck jumped out on the road in front of us on the David Thompson. I say it enter the ditch before it even hit the road. Luckily Nick's cousin, who was driving at the time, hit the brake hard before he even saw the animal just because I said "deer, deer, deer". When you hear it, brake first, ask questions later.

If you want a visual idea, http://www.twinanchors.com/vacation/houseboat/ccii-floorplan.php