Houseboat

 

We left school a little early yesterday and dropped off our dumb little dog at our friends' house. We drove to Revelstoke where we spent the night at the Glacier House Resort, which turned out to be an amazing log construction hotel that uses antique snowmobiles as its primary decoration.

 

 

The hotel had a swimming pool and hot tub that we were able to spend some time in, thanks to the extra hour afforded to us by the time change.

 

 

Instead of the hotel proper, we stayed in one of the cute little cabins scattered around the property.

 

 

After a better-than-usual continental breakfast, we drove the remainder of the way to Sicamous. The winding roads combined with lush forest and fog rising off the lakes made for a gorgeous trip.

 

 

We loaded our provisions and had a quick orientation, but after that we were underway.

 

 

Technically Heather and I are the captain and co-captain, but everyone took a turn at the helm. In fact, as I type this post, Ella is navigating through the Cinnemousun Narrows as we make our way to the Seymour Arm of the lake.

 

 

We only have 2.5 hours of travel time before we have to stop for the night. We probably aren't going to get all the way to Silver Beach as planned - we stopped for an hour or so for a lunch that Heather prepared and for some swiming time. Every member of the family used the slide off of the back of the boat, and half of us jumped off the roof into the water.

 

 

At least we didn't have to stop for people to do their hottubbing.

 

- C