6- Penticton

Penticton is a place that within 15 minutes of studying a map, you can pretty much know your way around the town. Arriving in Penticton with a phone call that had issues with Mountain Phone Coverage, we headed for our lovely host/hostess. An innovative indoor car wash started the Penticton Stay as well as a quick view of the Lake and the entrance to the town. With a bit of gym and a bit of bootcamp which I handled with considerable ease, the first few days of the stay were quite relaxing and was ready and raring to go over the next few days and over the weekend. With what we had planned, it was going to be busy.

Being hit with reality and realizing that steel cap boots would make our toes fall off, Thursday was a day of shopping where we ended up at Walmart purchasing some nice warm winter boots and a pair of gloves for my finger tips and a nice thermal beanie to keep my head warm. The investment in these pieces of items was well worth the money as we found out the next day when we went snowshoeing up Apex mountain. Our toes were quite thankful as we trudged our way up hill in snow wearing shoes that are way bigger then clown shoes. After an effort and a half, we made it half way up the mountain only to find that it only got steeper, That’s schtoopid. As the saying goes, “what goes up, must come down”, so we went down. We went down in like 2% of the time it took us to climb up, however we did most of that sliding on our ass, straight down the side.

Friday didn’t end there. Friday night was the first hockey game I had watched in full and first game I had ever been to. The Penticton Vees were playing this night and of course were my adopted team, so my support went to the Vee’s. GO VEES. With Wine and $2 beer night happening, along with the company and the hockey, it was quite an entertaining night with dancers on big screens shaking there booties over and over, jiggy jiggy. The Vees with all my support came off triumphant this night.

QUICK!! Someone get the number for 9 – 1 – 1. We have a Popcorn and popcorn dish thief. The night ended with a big clunk and a

Ring a ring a rosie
A pocketful of posies
a-tishoo!, a-tishoo!.
We all fall down.

I pity the poor cleaners who thinking there job was done, to then make there way out of the premises to find popcorn strewn across the floor. The Cleaning bill for the Penticton Ice Hockey Venue has just doubled. The fun continued the next day with my second hockey game as I watched a juniors game with some recovery A&W in the middle and a nice Tim Hortons Coffee to warm us all up. After the Hockey game, it was my turn to try my ice skating ability.

(Excerpt from My Trip to Canada)