Canada Day

Alison's friend's family invited us to spend the Canada Day weekend at their home in Fairmont, B.C. We had a fabulous time swimming and boating in Columbia Lake, climbing up a mountain trail to reach a waterfall to swim below, and just having fun with good people.

Here we are at Columbia Lake. It is a glacier-fed lake, but it's really shallow, so it was nice and warm. It was especially enjoyable since the temperature was in the low 30s and we needed a good dip to cool off. We also had lots of fun tubing about the lake, until, of course, Alison had to dump Mommy off the tube...



The waterfall is an offshoot of the hot springs. We climbed a trail to reach the waterfall and then swam in the pools below, which were really warm. It was also pretty busy there, so Alison and Sam went off exploring in the stream below.




We spent Canada Day at the base of Fairmont Ski Hill. Alison and her friends made their own Canada Day t-shirts which turned out rather spectacularly, I must say.