weddings, canoeing and snakes. lots of snakes. and deer.

last weekend i was in pinawa for my sister andrea's wedding. despite the fact that her new husband carl was mucho sicko the day of the wedding and following, everything went off without a noticeable hitch. i guess you could say they got hitched without a hitch. The wedding was at an old hydro electric dam just outside of pinawa. it was built in the early 1900s, decommissioned 20something years later, and became a artillery practice sight for the military for some war, and has since become a provincial park. tres cool i think. most of the structures are still in tact. also, since no people live there anymore, it has become home to millions of snakes. i really do mean millions. i lost count at 37 563 732. i hate snakes, so it was a source of minor anxiety for me. the dam is about 15km downstream from new pinawa (actually just called pinawa, as opposed to the dam, which is old pinawa) so my brother and i took the opportunity on friday to canoe to the rehersal. it was cool. we say a few turtles with shells the size of garbage can lids. really. we also had a very close incounter with a deer (not so impressive when you consider that we saw more deer in pinawa than snakes in old pinawa). My camera battery died before i could take any pictures of the canoeing, but it was cool. now im back in kelowna, my sister is married and im ready for my next adventure, which i hope is a 4x4 and hiking adventure into graystokes provincial park. a kinda remote park in the kootaneys. further updates as adventures warrant.