Orroville Trip

We had a whole day of rain, the first since I got here!

On my day off we took a drive down into Washington State, USA to Oroville, the last time I was down that way was when I was 14 years old and on my very first trip to Canada, so 13 years and eight trips to Canada later I go back! This time was different though, we stopped at a few wineries on the way, Burrowing Owl and Inniskillen both near Oliver!

I have never visited any wineries before so it was interesting, the Burrowing Owl winery gets it’s name from “Burrowing Owls” which are protected, the winery does lots to help them survive, it builds man made burrows for the owls so they cannot be got at by predators or hurt by humans!

At the Inniskillen winery I tasted some Ice Wine, it was lovely, very very sweet though! The reason it is called Ice Wine is because the grapes are left on the vine into winter and are only picked when it is minus 10 or colder… that is what makes it so sweet!
Every night this week and for the past few actually I have been going to bed to the sounds of frogs ribiting away to one another in the garden, by the ponds.