Yesterday was most certainly not a sunny day in the Okanagan. We went up to Kelowna to drop Nana and Grandpa off at the airport and walked around there for a little while before heading up to Vernon to check out Silver Star ski resort. On our way home we got caught in one of the weirdest thunder/hail/rain storms ever -- complete with tumbleweeds a-blowin' down the street. We hightailed it off the mountain when the clouds rolled in, but the resort looks very funky and we're looking forward to heading up there once the slopes open. I especially appreciate the signs that advise you to carry chains in your car (yet there's still a bus stop up further on the road) and then they warn you a couple times that you need good winter tires beyond certain points or you're forbidden. This is likely because there are no guardrails to stop you from plunging off the side of the road/down the side of the mountain. Gulp.
Before we entered the twilight zone, Molly checked out Ogopogo, the Okanagan version of the Loch Ness Monster, in downtown Kelowna.
We decided to pull off the road while the hail rolled through. Sorry that I didn't get a picture of the tumbleweeds -- it was pretty funny, though.
Before we entered the twilight zone, Molly checked out Ogopogo, the Okanagan version of the Loch Ness Monster, in downtown Kelowna.
We decided to pull off the road while the hail rolled through. Sorry that I didn't get a picture of the tumbleweeds -- it was pretty funny, though.
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