A Week in the Okanogan

 My wife and I spent a week in the Okanogan and had a relaxing time with her parents and friends.

In total we visited six wineries: Savard vines (pictured below), Back Door Winery, Blind Tiger Winery, Arrowleaf Cellars, Grey Monk estate, O'Rourke's Peak Cellars, and Ancient Hill Estate Winery. There were items of interest at all of them but in particular Savard, O'Rourke, and Ancient Hill had the most that were interesting.

Arrowleaf.

At Blind Tiger we had pizza for lunch while a casual cat reclined nearby.

Here is the pizza in mid consumption. 

The garden in front of Ancient Hill.

Here is the bowl full of goose eggs from my in-law's neighbor, after one breakfast!

When I went to Kelowna to visit thrift stores, nine of them. I didn't find much as it was to look for some hard to find game items and look at books. I found that Mission Thrift Store Kelowna and S.H.A.R.E. Society Thrift store were the best, most organized, and cleanest. 

I took a lunch break at Ume during my shopping day, a new place I had not eaten before. 

I had the special, tempura mackerel bento box and avocado & shitake roll. Delicious!

I also stopped at three shops specializing in food from the Mediterranean, two of which specialized in Italian food: Valoroso, Trulli Italian, and the Mediterranean Market. All were wonderful places for nice items.

I also stopped off at Percival & Young Cheese mongers, a superb place for fine cheese.

When going through Hope on the way home I discovered that it is the 40th anniversary of the Rambo film so the community is having a little party to celebrate. It was filmed here by the way and they even have a log carving of Rambo near the town park. 

The mountains were also a nice thing to drive around. A great trip.