Naramata 2012

We have been spoiled this year with two summer vacations - Florida earlier in July and we now just returned from British Columbia.  We spent a week with good friends in an old, renovated farm house on the Naramata Bench, wine country.   As always, it makes Todd and I want to buy a place there; we have always enjoyed our trips to the area and can see us retiring there one day.  The kids also love it.  What's not to love - fresh cherries each morning from the yard, a hot tub with an amazing view of Okanagan Lake, sea doing in the clear waters, fantastic meals at the endless wineries, the list goes on and on.  It truly is a place of serenity and right here in Canada.

First night upon our arrival

Waiting for lunch at Hillside Winery - a very good 2007 Mosaic wine

Our beach

Trying to tire Liam out

Picking apricots

The view from the road outside our house

A grapevine on the trellis above the patio deck

One of two decks at the house

Lavender farm

Black Widow winery

The great little friends on the Casabella Princess paddle boat

Ogopogo?

Captain Liam

Captainess Emily

Liam jumping into the lake

Emily's turn

Sparkling cherry juice

Lovely ladies

Girls getting matching ankle bracelets

Lots of bocci

Jimmy the Goat

Looking for the perfect peach

Trapped at the Enchanted Forest; a traditional stop on the way home