The little guy enjoying chocolate milk from D Dutchman Dairy.
Walking from the chickens he said "cock-a-cock-a-doo-doo!" for 15 minutes straight.
Our little one feeding the young ones some hay.
Running from fairy tale to fairy tale in the Enchanted Forest near Revelstoke.
They went in and quickly came out saying "It is full of kids!!"
The kids using everything not nailed down to make a beaver dam between the beds in Revelstoke. Great Hotel!
"Those pigs have to be somewhere..."
Captain Hook vs. Captain Shaggy Beard
Today started with another early morning and a decent continental breakfast at the Best Western Wayside Inn. The pools were closed until 9:00 so we decided to hit the road because we knew of a few places we wanted to stop and check out.
And glad we did because today was jammed packed!
First, we stopped at the Enchanted Forest just outside of Revelstoke. It was early and rainy so we were alone there, but that place must get busy because it was cool! It was a walk through the forest with all the fairy tales and nursery rhymes recreated in little scenes spread through the forest. You could walk into all the 3 little pigs houses, the old woman's shoe, and even see jack cutting down the bean stalk (a tree) with a huge giant at the top of the tree looking terrified. We ended up spending close to an hour and a half there.
Second, we stopped in Sicamous Dutchman Dairy farm. We saw a sign that said friendly friendly farm animals...so we pulled off the highway and into an awesome place! We walked around the farm and looked at all the dairy cows, baby dairy cows (who were very friendly!), the chickens, llamas, donkeys, etc.
The kids loved the animals! The baby cows were great, we fed them hay, let them lick our hands clean, and they loved getting their heads scratched. And the surprise fun was our youngest went bananas for the chickens and roosters!
And we all loved the fresh ice cream, chocolate milk and whipping cream. Yes whipping cream, Dad accidentally bought whipping cream thinking it was milk and proceeded to chug it before realizing what he did. His guts were in knots for the rest of the afternoon.
But the ice cream.....holy hell! Best...ice cream...ever....period...no really...that...good...seriously.
Third, we were getting kinda hungry for lunch so we say signs for The Log Barn, waffles and sausage - sounds good.
The food was a bust because we pulled in behind two tour buses so it was way to busy to get anything. But it was not a complete write off because we found the smartest animals ever. Goats! These goats are on a bridge over the entrance to The Log Barn. What they have is a pulley system where the tourists (us) pay $.25 to buy a handful or corn and place it in a cup on a rope, that is attached to the pulley. These smart goats hear all this and use their little hooves to spin the pulley and raise the cup of corn up a good 50 feet to where they are camped on the bridge.
Smartestest animals ever!
Fourth, vineyards. Mom and Dad have just begun to enjoy wine (thanks to having kickass friends to share it with!) so we decided to pop by a few on the way to pick up a few bottles. This exchange sums up Dads experience at the vineyards:
- this vineyard was conducting a wine tasting -
Vineyard employee: "how are you doing over there?"
Dad: (carrying two bottles) "not to bad, just gonna buy a couple of these bottles."
Snobby vineyard patron: "So I guess you don't come to many wine tastings then do you?"
Dad: "no I guess I don't, good call!"
But we ended up with a few bottles.
Fifth, Scandia. We should just stop talking now about this place because it really doesn't deserve anything besides a glorious controlled blaze.
It advertises itself as a fun place for kids to have some fun and supper. But it was a terrible place that is a combination of a dirty Ruckers and and terrifying Chuck E. Cheese. Most of the games were broken and half of the working ones had no tickets. The mini golf was sad and thank goodness we can't tell you about the food because we left to go eat somewhere else. Just don't go there.
Sixth, hotel. We are at the Best Western Kelowna Hotel and Suites. Pretty cool place, it is super green and prides itself on being energy efficient. it has loads of skylights instead of lights in the hallways, they push recycling to the max, even in the rooms, and there is a full array of solar panels on the roof. The bad part is the hotel is 3 buildings,so we had to walk outside to go to the pool (and will have to go to the third building for the free continental breakfast tomorrow) and it was cool and windy tonight.
Here is how it looks:
Best Western Kelowna Inn and Suites
Room 2/5 (nice room and pretty good little balcony, but no microwave and the fridge is even to small for a dorm room.)
Pool 3/5 (the indoor pool is decent, no waterslides though. And the pool area is all concrete so it echoes a lot wand is very loud. The outside hot tubs are nice but small.)
Location 4/5 (good location. Near lots of shopping and restaurants, but not close to downtown. Can't walk anywhere.)
Hotel 4/5 (overall decent place, but we would likely look someplace else next time unless we had Best Western gift cards.)
