Okanagan - Day 8

We packed up and left Penticton this morning and drove north to the #1 highway.  We joined the #1 at Sicamous, where we stopped for a quick lunch.  The weeks (and months) before we arrived in BC had been full of rain, which had culminated in a bunch of flooding.  We drove over two washed out bridges that were in the process of being repaired.  Sicamous is also under a do not use the water warning, due to the flooding and the lack of proper water treatment at the moment.  Must make keeping a restaurant open quite hard, as you would have to bring in water to wash all the dishes and equipment.  Needless to say, we skipped using the bathrooms, since convincing the kids not to wash their hands, after spending six years telling them to wash their hands, is a hopeless endeavour.

From Sicamous, we drove a short way to the Enchanted Forest, which is a little tourist trap off the #1, where you walk through the forest and look at cement figures depicting famous nursery rhymes and fairy tales.  A number of the scenes include miniature houses, which are open and just the right size for small children.  The kids LOVED it.  Jonathan walked the entire way and was adamant that he follow his brothers everywhere they went, which meant I had to squeeze into tiny buildings a couple of times to get him out of tiny upper floors he was trapped in (or he was trapping his brothers in, by refusing to go down the stairs first).  The older two boys happily climbed a super tall tree house that was way too tall for me.  Luckily I convinced Jonathan to give up his climb when the other two boys started coming down.

We then drove a little further down the road to Revelstoke and stopped for the day.  After supper at a local restaurant and ice cream at a local ice cream shop, we put three very tired kids to bed and ended our day.