The Wilsons Go Camping

If you went on the great camping trip with the FBC Batesville crowd in 1994, you were there the last time I went camping.

Until August of this year that is.

Chris and I packed up our car and drove about 3.5 hours east to Penticton, British Columbia to our camp site with some good friends of ours.

Our home away from home

The men on the trip called our weekend "gl-amping" you know glamorous camping since we had running water and restroom facilities.

You mean people go camping without that?

 Day One:

We rode bikes to several wineries.  The area is beautiful and we could not have had better weather.

We visited five wineries on the Naramata Bench: Upper Bench, Misconduct, Township 7, Red Rooster, and Bench 1775.

Been a while since I rode a bike, but fortunately... it's like riding a bike. 

This winery had my favourite Merlot.

The view from Red Rooster winery. 

After a long day of bike riding, we ended our day with a dinner of fish and poutine. Poutine, one of the foods unique to Canada, is french fries topped with gravy and cheese curds.  Our friend's parents started the first food truck in Penticton called Jeffer's Fryzz. It's delicious!

Day Two:

This was the more relaxing day of our trip. We retraced our ride to the wineries, in our car this time, and picked up some bottles of our favourites from each winery.

Then we came back to join our friends before heading off to our next adventure.

We rented inner tubes and floated down the channel. We didn't have our cameras to take pictures but here are some pictures from their website.

Until next year....