Okanagan - Day 5

So I missed posting last night, since everyone was so tired that we all fell asleep around 9:00pm.  We started the day off by driving down the valley a bit to Oliver, as there are a lot of fruit stands there.  We found an orchard, got everyone buckets and then headed out to the cherry trees to pick some cherries.  The trees that were ripe had already been picked over, which meant that the only cherries available were up high.  We grabbed a ladder and picked a bunch of cherries - I even put Jonathan on the ladder and pulled down some branches so he could pick some fruit.  Evan was the only one who did not have a good time, as the trees were full of mosquitos and he was getting bit fairly constantly, so he stood in the sun at the end of the trees to try to avoid them.

On the way home, we stopped at another fruit stand to buy some early peaches, as well as at an awesome little BBQ shack in Oliver so that Sandra and I could eat lunch.  They serve pulled pork sandwiches with a variety of sauces and they were fabulous.  Of course, the kids would not eat anything like that, so we ate in the car and then drove back to the motel to make hot dogs for the kids.

The afternoon was spent at the beach.  It started off a little cool, due to some wind blowing in off the lake, but by the end of the afternoon the wind had stopped and it was really hot.  The kids were starting to get a bit red around supper time, so we got them wrapped up and back in the motel room.

We made spaghetti and meat sauce for supper and then went for a short walk after supper to buy some mini-donuts and to take Xander's picture beside a street that is named after him.  As I mentioned previously, everyone was super tired, so we retired to the motel and put everyone to bed.