SPOTTED LAKE

Finally some warmish weather! The top is back off the Jeep and we are reveling in the wind blowing through our hair as we drive around.



Once again the past week has been relatively quiet with household chores taking up most of our time. Cameo played her last soccer match over the weekend. The year concluded with a tournament and the girls finished a good season with a loss on Friday night and a victory on Saturday.



The season is so short here, just a little over eight weeks. It does mean that we will now have our Thursday nights and Saturdays back again.

Tammie’s mother, sister and niece flew in from Ontario late on Sunday night. There was a mix up with the hire car which meant that they had to stay in a motel in Kelowna on Sunday night. Tammie drove back to OK Falls and her and I drove to Kelowna on Monday morning and hired an 8 seater van from the airport. What a great a bran new van for 7 days and only $280. Unfortunately you then have to add insurance, taxes and other surcharges but a great deal all the same.



On Wednesday afternoon the whole crew drove south towards the USA border to check out a local Indian sacred sight called Spotted Lake. The lake is just off the highway and protected by a heavy gate. We were lucky enough to gain access to Spotted Lake which is a rather wondrous sight.

 

The lake is cradled in between a range of low mountains. As a body of water it would be nothing special at all. What does make it special is that there are 365 circles of varying sizes within the lake, hence the name Spotted Lake.

The local Indian’s believe that the Lake holds healing power and they have been using the Lake for this purpose for as long as they can remember.



Curious I scooped up a handful of lake-water to have a taste. Yuk! It tasted terrible. The water was chock-full of minerals, salt and other unknown ingredients that made the water taste terrible. The taste lingered on and on and stained my hand white. I was actually amazed to see that small organisms lived in the water.

 

It is Mac’s graduation celebrations over the next few days and then everyone (including the dog) will scatter.

 

It was a great effort by the Socceroos this morning to beat Serbia 2-1. It was just a shame that they were beaten 4-0 by Germany in the first game as that put them behind the eight ball from the start of the tournament. In the end only goal difference stopped them moving onto the next round.



Canadian TV showed the Germany V Ghana game live so I had to revert to the internet. I couldn’t find the game and missed the entire first half. When I did find the game it was a Chinese feed so I had to mute the volume. I then lost that feed and watched a feed coming in from Brazil. Crazy!