One day I did laundry while John worked on the bike tire, we went grocery shopping and basically just hung out at the RV. The next morning we rode along the Mission Creek park trail which was a good 8 miles down then back up. We are so glad we have e-bikes on those up-hill rides! It was a very pleasant ride on shady paths next to the river.
A private wine tour in West Kelowna filled our day on Thursday. The first two stops - Quail’s Gate and The Gallery Vineyards - had beautiful tasting rooms and some decent wine so we got a few bottles. Our lunch at Nineteen Steakhouse overlooking their golf course was very nice. We could easily have taken a nap but we had two more wineries to visit. Neither one had very good wine but one was on the lake shore and the other was run by First Nations people.
The Farmers Market opened at 8 on Saturday and we were there at 8:30 so I could get some fresh, fresh peaches! Then we headed south along the west side of Okanagan Lake through Peachland and Summerland to the southern point of the lake at the town of Penticton where we had reservations for a wine tasting and a tapas lunch.
Da Silva Vineyards is owned by a family originally from Portugal and they now owns a large portion of the vineyards in the area. They make a lot of their blended wines the same way they do in Portugal by putting all the grapes together before crushing instead of mixing the juices. We liked their white wines and had an okay Pinot Noir with our lunch.
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