On Thursday, we took a quck trip to Armstrong to pick up some cheese at Village Cheese, and some cereal and pancake mix at Rogers Bulk Store. Joan had hoped they would have some white whole wheat bread for a recipe for the bread maker. Unfortunately, they did not have any, but at least had heard of it. They would have ordered some in, but that doesn't work for us.
On Friday, we did a hike around the Kenna Cartwright park in Kamloops. It is a nice wooded park on a hill with panoramic views of Kamloops in all directions. Near the end of our walk, we saw a really vivid blue bird. However, we didn't have our camera with us, and didn't think about being able to use our phone to take pictures until it was too late.
On Saturday, we checked out some more hikes. One was to a place that involved driving up a bunch of gravel roads, and as it was overcast, we decided we didn't want to take the chance of driving back on wet roads. So, we walked a short section of the 40 km. long Rivers Walk in North Kamloops. The river is really low right now, with very wide sandy areas where it looks like there is normally water.
On Sunday, we took a walk up Petersen Creek Park to Bridal Veil Falls from downtown Kamloops.
This is a nice easy walk until you get into the canyon close to the falls. Then you have to do a bit of scrambling across the creek and along rock ledges. We remembered the camera this time!
On Monday morning, we packed up to head further east. We had been planning to stay for a few nights with friends on Mara Lake, but we found out they had gone to the coast. So we were going to stay for a few days in Revelstoke, waiting for a clear day over the mountains. However, the first campground we looked at was not really open, and was fairly damp, so we decided that, even though it was overcast, since the highway was bare, we would keep going. The weather wasn't an issue, but we found that the potholes that the highway cautions warned of were frequent, and some quite deep. There were a few stretches heading down from the summit of Rogers Pass that were very rough. When we stopped in Golden, we found most of things in the bathroom cupboard had moved onto the floor. Before carrying on, we had a burgers in the Legendz Diner, a late lunch about 3:00 PM (not as bad as it sounds since we had crossed the time change). The trip through the parks was uneventful. We arrived in the Bow Rivers Edge RV Park in Cochrane about 6:30, and got set up before having a late supper. The trailer had cooled down to 50F (which we think is the bottom of the thermostat's range), so it took a while to get the temperature back up to something tolerable.
We were a bit concerned about the limited facilities before May 1 in Bow Rivers Edge, since they only have electric hook-up over the winter. We thought we would have to move the trailer every few days to drain the tanks and fill the water tank. However, they kindly fill the water tanks every few days, and we can use the sewer as long as we don't leave the lines open all the time. Not a problem, since we always leave them closed anyway, and only drain when the tanks are full.
On Tuesday, we went to High River to pick up the mail that was collecting over the winter, and figure out what tax forms we were missing, and get our replacement debit cards authorized. While we were in town, we went over to George Lane Park and made a reservation for the first two weeks of May. They only have 4 full service sites, which are usually used by the couples taking care of the park. However, we got lucky. This year some of the staff are local, so there are a few full-service sites available.
On Wednesday, we made phone calls to arrange to get our missing forms, and entered our tax info into Turbo Tax. We will wait to file until we head back to the kid's place in High River, so we don't put all our info over campground wi-fi.
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