2 Years Old and 8 Months Week 4

Where does the time go?  Our baby is about to be 9 months old!

We took the boys on their first trip out of the USA this weekend.  We went across the border to Nelson, British Columbia.  It is known as the best small art town in Canada.  We tried to peak in one artist co-op but Jackson saw a choo-choo train and had a melt down.  The farmer's market was a much safer spot for our clan.  Jackson got a fresh juice and we walked up to see the waterfall in the park.

At nap time, we loaded the kids back into the car and drove them 45 minutes north to Ainworth Hot Springs.  There was a 98F pool, a cave that was 103F and a plung pool at 50F.  The cave was really cool.  It used to be an old mining shaft that had turned into a cave full of stalagtites and stalagmites from the minerals in the water.  Jackson spent 2 hours jumping off the side of the pool and swimming.

We headed up to a glacier after the hot sping but Jackson got car sick on the winding, dirt road so we never made it.  Maybe a little too much mineral water from the hot springs?

The streams were all whitewater.  There was still snow on the top of some of the mountains and they had gotten a lot of rain.  It was beautiful - the lake, the mountains, the trees and the rivers.  We stopped in Kokanee Creek Provincial Park but it started to rain so we didn't get to explore all of the park.  We loaded the car onto a ferry and went across the lake.  It was is the longest free ferry ride in the world.  The scenery was beautiful even with the fog and rain.  Jackson loved the boat ride!