Saturday, August 4, 2012 (Lac le Jeune Provincial Park, Kamloops, BC)

Another gorgeous morning...love the clear blue sky!  It definitely is going to be a hot one out there today...I believe it is expected to go up to around the 30C/90F mark.  But the mornings are pretty cool...it was only 12C/55F inside the trailer this morning.

After coffee, I did my 40 minute resistance training routine and then headed out on my morning power walk.  Steve had just started his weightlifting when I left.  It was just beautiful on the lake...a nice calm start but I’m sure the wind will pick up as the day progresses.

I wasn’t able to do my complete walk this morning...about 25 minutes into it I got a sharp pain in my right hip joint.  I tried stretching and walking slowly for a bit in hopes that it would go away, but it didn’t so I limped my way back to the trailer.  It wasn’t too bad by the time I got back but I think I had better take it easy for the rest of the day.  I guess the poor old joints just aren’t used to all the exercise they’ve been getting since we arrived here!

After breakfast...(I made a smoothie with my new blender that I bought on our shopping trip the other day...now I just have to get rid of something so I have a place to store it when we travel)...it was my turn to hit the shower.

We really didn’t do much today...we had thought of going for a hike.  There is a trail all the way around the lake so we thought that we might at least start it and see what it is like...but by early afternoon, it was just too hot so we decided against it.

While I was downloading some pictures and writing the blog, Steve decided to plug the spot in the slider where the mice have been getting in with some steel wool.  It’s such a tiny spot...I’m absolutely amazed that they manage to get in!  His main concern about putting the steel wool in is that he would forget to take it out before we put in the sliders...so he decided to put a note in the utility area to remind him.

The rest of the afternoon was spent lazing in the shade...until about 3:30 when Steve decided that he should finish treating the rubber seals on the last slider.  So he got to work...I continued to laze!

It was a beautiful evening...the sun had gone behind the trailer providing shade at the picnic table so we ate dinner outside.  Afterwards, we thought of going for our usual after dinner power walk...nah...maybe a bike ride...nah...besides I think I should rest my hip for the rest of the day!

Friday, August 3, 2012 (Lac le Jeune Provincial Park, Kamloops, BC)

We woke to beautiful blue sky this morning...it is going to be a beautiful day.  After my usual coffee start to the day, I headed out on my morning power walk, leaving Steve to finish his coffee.

After breakfast and clean-up, Steve decided he was going to do some maintenance work today.  He spent the rest of the morning checking and topping up the batteries on the trailer and then moved onto the truck, checking and filling the coolant.  While he was doing this, I was reading.  I have become interested in learning about the affect of wheat on blood sugar levels...and thus visceral (belly) fat, so I downloaded a book (using Kobo) called “Wheat Belly”...a very interesting read.

For our bike ride this afternoon, we decided to go outside the park rather than ride around the campground again.  We rode to Lac le Jeune Resort at the west end of the lake...a mainly downhill ride, which meant it was uphill on the way back!  The "resort" really wasn't much to look at.  Then we rode passed the entrance to the campground, going the other direction to the end of that road...again, downhill...then back up!  I had turned on “MyTracks” on my smartphone but had forgotten to press “record track” so I don’t know how far we rode but we were gone just under an hour.  We certainly had our fill of uphill riding! (click on pictures to enlarge)

The picture above is to the right of this bridge....

...and this picture is to the left of the bridge...

Steve took a picture of this interesting looking dead tree...it must have been huge when it was alive.  That speck in the distance is me riding up the hill...it was a slow go...

We came across this fellow along the way...

We relaxed outside in the shade reading.  The sun was pretty darned hot but it was also quite windy out...we have decided that it is always windy here.  We spent our happy hour watching from our hillside vantage spot as the long weekend campers started to make their way in.

After dinner we called Steve’s sister, Nadine and had a nice conversation with her and husband, Mike.  It sounds like all is going well in the preparations to move Dad into Shoal Centre in Sidney.  We will be back in Victoria August 13 to help clean out his house and get it ready to go on the market.

We went for our “after dinner” power walk around the campground...it’s full for the long weekend...before settling down to watch TV (I was reading on my iPad).

For the second night in a row, an unwanted visitor got into our house.  Shortly after getting in bed, we heard the “snap” of the mousetrap...stupid mouse!!  This time Steve disposed of the intruder and reset the trap before getting back into bed.