Edwin I took a little road trip on the May long weekend recently to Osoyoos. Our extended family (grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins - the whole shebang!) used to go up here every summer for many, many years when I was growing up. I was excited to see the city since I haven't been back in at least 10 years.
I mentioned previously that we
found a great hotel deal, so we were excited for a mini-getaway that wasn't going to cost a lot. I'd never heard of our hotel, t
he Walnut Beach Resort, but it turned out to be amazing! I'd highly recommend it. It was only built 5 years ago, so everything is quite new still and very clean. The room had a kitchenette in it which we weren't expecting, but I still wasn't planning on cooking too much! It was handy though for the fridge and dishware for us to eat leftover pizza on.
We left Saturday morning around 8:30 am and came home Monday around 7 pm. It was so much fun overall!
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| Our room! (sadly no lakeview) |
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| Le kitchen |
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| I really liked the chandelier & the stonework in the stairwell. |
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| The beach at our hotel. (the water was a tad cold to swim in...) |
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| We had lunch at the restaurant at our hotel the day we got there. |
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| Fish tacos & sangria for the lady |
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| We then laid by the pool in the afternoon. It was hot & glorious. |
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| It was Edwin's first time mini golfing! Don't worry, I let him win. |
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| A natural pro right here. |
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| After mini golfing, we walked to the Sage Pub (great pizza, by the way!) and then walked back to our hotel. It started pouring rain, with thunder & lightning. We were absolutely drenched when we got back!! |
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| On Sunday, we did a winery tour through the tour company called Landsea. It was great! They pick you up, take you to 4 wineries, and pay for all the tasting fees. Well worth the value in our opinion! This was at the first winery, Burrowing Owl. Beautiful view! |
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| Afterwards, we went our for a pasta lunch. Carbs were much needed to soak up all the wine we had! This pasta was SO good - it was rotini with shrimp & a pesto marinara sauce. I've never had pesto marinara before and I loved it! It was garlicky & tomatoey. |
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| On Monday, we relaxed & laid by the pool some more. then we did some exploring around town. We visited Sandy Beach, where I used to go as a kid! These cabins that we used to stay in looked exactly the same as I remembered them. |
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| The beach at Sandy Beach. I remember spending SO much time here. The tree with the square attached to it is the old dock the hotel used to have in the water. |
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| Of course, we had to stop at Manning Park on the way home to see the squirrels! (chipmunks? Whatever they are!!) We also used to do this on our way to/from Osoyoos all the time :) |
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