From the snowy Yukon to the sunny Okanagan
As of last night I’m in Kelowna for a week visiting family. It’s nowhere near as warm as I’d hoped, but it is sunny – and the Fall Wine Festival is on 🙂
This is what my driveway looked like yesterday as I was getting ready to leave.
In the winter it’s always a few degrees warmer in the city and at the airport, so the snow is gone (though mixed rain and snow was falling). My plane was delayed in Vancouver for over an hour, and the Jazz flight to Calgary couldn’t even take off due to a icy storm passing through Calgary, so there were a lot of people sitting around in the terminal. Eventually we got on the plane – then the pilot said we had to wait for 1 and possibly 3 planes to land so we could be delayed for another 25 minutes. The 3-hour layover I was scheduled for in Vancouver was starting to look pretty good at this point!
We were over a solid cloud cover for most of the flight, so I caught a much-needed nap – I was up at 03:30 working on the List. It cleared a few miles north of Vancouver, though, so we got some good views. This is the Vancouver airport, with Point Roberts, Washington, in the distance.
Just after 19:00 we boarded a Dash 8 for the short flight to Kelowna.
What a gorgeous night to be flying! The large group of lights is Gibsons. This photo was shot at ISO 1600 and a full 1-second exposure so is a bit shaky.
I got a good deal on a rental car through Hotwire. As I was checking out the car I got a phone call from a friend from high school who I talk to every now and then by phone. Garth is just heading home to Vancouver Island from northern Alberta and is going to be in Kelowna today! That’s wonderful coincidence #2 for this trip – I got an email yesterday from Westjet Vacations that they’re having a breakfast seminar for travel agents in Kelowna on Tuesday, so I signed up for that (we get very few reps visiting Whitehorse).
Ahhhh – this is my view right now as I sit and drink coffee with my parents (and write my blog). A great way to start the week off.. 🙂
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