Last Thursday evening, before we headed to Vancouver the next morning, we decided to go to the beach at a Regional public park.  The only reason people swim here because of the view of the mountains.

Before we took a dip in the lake, we barbecued. I don’t eat meat, except for shrimp sometimes. So, feeding me here has become a challenge for my brother, but great for me! Hehe. At restaurants I am so picky, and the waitresses say, “yes, we make sure our sauces and food are made for vegetarians with no animal products.” Awesome eh? I love being picky!

Anyways, while we were cooking the food over the coal BBQ, my niece kept wanting to strip off her bikini underwear part. The bikini was too big on her, and she is very skinny and tall for her age. She is almost at the tallest mark for children her age. She is gonna be a tall girl like me! Yay! Anyways, she stripped about 3 or 4 times because she couldn’t run around properly. She hated it, and she kept getting smacked on her hands for doing so. Unfortunately, she is the most stubborn child and didn’t care.

Moreover, the beach was all rocks and sea weeds under. I didn’t like swimming in it because it hurt the bottom of my feet. It was annoying and I just kept floating. However, I wouldn’t have traded the view and the clean water for anything else. It was amazing!

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I finally came back to Kelowna from Vancouver. It took about 6.5 hours because we had to go up north to Kamloops first because the highway to Kelowna from Merritt was closed. So the other way took an extra 2 hours. It was tiring.

The latest news now is that 40% of the fire has been contained in West Kelowna, which is right across the bridge, 10 min from here. The sky is red and smokey, and smells bad. I was reading the news from my cell phone along the way when I had signal. A lot of times I did not have phone reception when we were driving in the mountains. We started seeing the smoke across the mountains about 180km from Kelowna.

This is a picture I took from the highway near Vernon while we were driving.

Half of West Kelowna was evacuated today.

You know what else I noticed? It only rained once since I got here, and barely for half a day. No wonder fires spread fast here, it is dry!

I got a picture from Castanet.

I will talk about my trip to Vancouver and share some pictures tomorrow. Today, I am dead tired!

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I have many pictures, but you know me, I am busy and lazy to get them out of the camera. The heat here is killing me. It is a lot hotter here, but barely any humidity. So, it is sort of bearable, but still makes me tired all day. However, I have been to many places, and lots of pictures to show soon.

Unfortunately, I won’t be able to blog and share good quality pictuers till Sunday. I will Twitter a lot and send pictures to my Twitpic album. I will be leaving to the city of Vancouver tomorrow morning. It is about a 4 hour drive to there. The reason it is such a long way because the highway cuts through the mountains. So it is not a straight line.

Tonight, we are going to the lake to swim in the beautiful clean water at a regional public park. It is about 10 minutes away! And no, I don’t wear a bathing suit. I wear shorts and top! So don’t ask you weirdos and I am not afraid of water or heights either!

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I recorded this video of my twenty three month old niece while excitedly looking at the Google front page and saying, “Google! Google!” She loves Google too! Who doesn’t?

She begins the video saying, “Mooona! Google!” She ends it by saying, “Google!” The girl loves Google! I tried to teach her how to say Yahoo! However, she refused to say it and kept saying, “Google!” My niece makes me proud!

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Almost every day at noon, my brother comes home for lunch. He would be all dressed up and wearing a tie, and thinking he is the engineering king of the world.

He told me this which was a serious conversation that I had to take seriously or else!

He gave me a stern look and said, “Mona, why aren’t you on TV yet? Why aren’t you rich and famous yet?”

I said, “Ahh? I am working on it? You want to help me? You know people that may know people?”

My brother said with an angry tone, “Well, you need to work harder at it. We all know that you are the only person that has the potential to be rich and famous. You need to start making millions so we can all quit our day jobs and work along with you to increase the fortune.”

I rolled my eyes and said, “OK!”

Sure, one day I will be rich and famous..

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