Monday in Kelowna

I was not able to blog yesterday, and my sister, Leah, tried to tell me via email how to change the date stamp, but I couldn't get it to change. She knows my password so maybe she'll just go in and change it for me! (wink, wink) :)

What do you know... the best sister in the whole wide world snuck in here and fixed the date!-thanks Leah!!!!

We had a wonderful day in Kelowna (pronounced Kalona, for you Iowa people) . Carri conned me into going to an exercise class with her. She went on and on about how it was in a park surrounded by the mountains and it was beautiful. She failed to mention that the name was Bikini Boot Camp. 2 things: I will never be in a bikini and anything named "Boot Camp" cannot be good! She also failed to mention that you can't enjoy the mountains because you are so busy grabbing your knees and huffing and puffing and trying to suck in oxygen. At one point the instruction said, "I know you are lacking oxygen right now, that is called 'Anaroebic'. It is good for you, let's do that again!" I thought I would die and I kept saying to myself, why am I doing this on my vacation!?? I am soooo sore now. I have already told Carri I will not be going with her on Wed. b/c I do not want to be sore the rest of my vacation. Jenna went with us too and did awesome!! She is sore also today. After we left boot camp Carri took us to Starbucks and we got a non-fat caramel dolce latte espresso.(or whatever it was called)

When we returned home we loaded the kids up and took them to the beach. It was a beautiful day for that. We spent a couple hours there and then came home for naps. The kids have all been quite tired from lack of sleep.

The rest of the evening we spent hanging out. In early evening I suggested that maybe we should let the kids go swimming in their little kids pool and Ray said, "Yeah, I've been refilling it." And he went and checked on it. Well the hose had slipped out of the pool, and to make a really long story short, the hose directed itself to their foundation,filled up a window well type thing and we spent the next hour using pails to empty the window well and cleaning out their basement that had about 1 inch of standing water!

For those of you that know the history of our family vacations, you know that we either tend to have at least one person sick, or end up with someone in the hospital. Well, we woke up this morning and found out that Ray was sick with the stomach flu and throwing up all night. So you know what that means...

I need to go, I'm feeling a little queasy.