Flooding!!!

On Wednesday, June 19, it rained like it was The End of Days... something like 35 ml of rain in 24 hours. It was pretty hard to pack up and get excited about the trip the next day with weather like that. Honestly, it made me want to light the woodstove, crawl into the easy chair with a good book and call it a day. The next morning, though, we were so lucky that the weather had eased off a bit.
Leaving home, it was a balmy 16 degrees and just a light rain. We figured, after the torrential rains of the day before, we were doing well. It got even better than that by the time we hit Williams Lake and it progressively got warmer and drier as we headed south. In the end, we only had a spit of rain in Vernon and then it was dry again until Kelowna where we stayed last night. There was a narrow window of dry and we had the luck of the Gods with us and we found it!

Just got off the phone with my sister Victoria who lives in Calgary. She gave us some updates on the unbelievable flooding happening there and Southern Alberta. Her words - Avoid Alberta altogether!! So - we're having to rethink our plans. We head to Nelson tomorrow and had planned on taking the #3 through Alberta but now it looks like we'll head south through Washington and into Montana and we'll do the Highway to the Sun through Glacier National Park. From there, we'll stay in Northern Montana until we get into drier ground in Saskatchewan. Sorry Alberta! We'll have to catch you on the way home!!!