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Jrock’s parents popped by for a 5 day visit the last week of June… and yes, I’m only posting about it now! (But you can see the garden in the background and in my next post you’ll be wowed at the difference 2 weeks of heat makes.)

We had a nice visit – going soccer games and Elysium Gardens, as well as out for the girls and Jrock’s favourite food – Indian! yummy. But the highlight for me was the day I took the troup out to Mission hill. They have such a great tour, and it’s such a nice basic introduction to Okanagan wines and wine making in general. I wasn’t sure how the girls would do with the 1 hour tour – but as usual, they were champs. Their only complaint was the “big people movie” at the start of the tour didn’t have any animals (but I was happy to see they’ve finally replaced the video after umpteen years!)

Other than that – they loved the barrel room – daughters after my own heart. I was showing them some basics of the cellaring process, and highlighting the smells and sights, and they ate it up. Then at the end of the tour, they got to “taste” their own kids wine (aka sparkling juice) which they just loved. To top it off, they bodyrolled down the amphitheatre steps, and then we got some amazing scratch-made cocoa-lish-ous soft serve icecream made by my friends the cooking class chefs at the Terrace Restaurant.

Not a better day to be had for my and my girlets! And Granny and Grandad ate it up (literally and figuratively) too. Granny always feels so relaxed when she comes visit, and they both really enjoyed getting to know the girls more now that they can communicate with them without any translator.