An Easter Trip to Hope, BC

This will be a quickie!

This weekend, I spent some time with my parents up in their hometown, Hope BC.  It's a funny little town situated at the mouth of the Fraser Canyon.  It's got stunning natural beauty, backed up against the snowy-peaked mountains, a rushing Fraser river, and has that mysterious 'Twin Peaks' appeal of small towns in the wilderness.

Mostly, I just hung out with my mum and dad, eating my mum's amazing home-baked goodies and enjoying my dad's weird humour.  It's always a good battery-charge for me to head up there, and just be in their presence.  They are the salt of the earth, and extremely special people to me.

We went on a nice walk into town, and visited their friends, John and Erika.  They are Mennonite folks, really nice and have this great little apartment above the main street.  They have a stunning view of the mountains, and it's the perfect place to watch all the 'action' of the town, as they look down on the post office, and one of the only large liquor stores in town!  While we were there, John showed me his work-space that he had in the apartment.  It was a place where he liked to do upholstery with an ancient Singer sewing machine that looked like it could probably sew through anything.  John is a retired teacher, but was an upholsterer as well, professionally.  I saw the interior of his washroom, and gasped!  It was full of whimsical junk everywhere, and I had to take a few photos of it.  Hehe....so here are my photos of a guy's workshop washroom....heheh, sorry!  But it was just great!  John's in the right side of the last picture.



Then we went to a beautiful trail near Kawkawa Lake, called the Canada Trail.  Supposedly it links up with many, many other trails and you can hike across to the other side of Canada via this system!  Amazing.  I'm going to have to do a little more research about these trails, but it sounded intriguing.

Along the trail, we ran across an old 50's car of some sort that had been driven off the side into the forest.  There were all sorts of trees and moss growing out of it-amazing.  I had to take a photo of it.  It was really peaceful, and there were tons of turtles sunning themselves on logs in the boggy lake next to one side of the trail.  So cute.  :^)

I stayed over Friday night, and then on Saturday we all went over to some good friend's house for an Easter Mexican feast!  There were lots of kids running around, and GREAT stories flowing about our friends growing up in Cache Creek and living on ranches, riding horses, hosting real cowboys during the rodeos, and floating downstream on inner tubes during the summer months.  So cool.

Hope everyone had a wonderful time with family & friends, for Ostara.

Heidi