WARNING: This blog post contains boogers, and a dirty child. It may also ignite a desire for adventure vanning, turquoise water and serenity. Veiw at your own risk.

Lake days have officially begun here in my tiny section of the Kootenays. I know it's been here for a while for our friends to the west but 2/3 of my family is now slathered in sunscreen on a daily basis so that means the summer hustle is real.

I have had a raging headache for about 2 weeks due to a pesky wisdom tooth wreaking havoc on the left side of my face, so needless to say I've been irritable, snappy and disinterested in anything involving moving my head off my pillow. However, my boys (husband, son and brother) wanted to go get fishing licenses and go to the lake for a few hours so I put my big girl pants up and sucked up the pain to try and enjoy my life a little. Even though my head was throbbing and the ride out was on another level of bumpy, we had a great time and I decided to let Kaz get dumpster baby dirty. All in all the evening contained all the ingredients for beautiful memories with my favourite people

Lucy

Vanning. Described in the Urban dictionary as: Noun: the act of creeping in a van, preferably one that is shady in some way, such as a rusty license plate or missing door handle

Now while I like to think we're a little classier then this description and that the van has more of a wandering feel then a creepy feel, I do think that everyone should give banning a shot from time to time. I wasn't always a believer, but with a little convincing from my better half it has now become a favourite pass time.

This past weekend we "van'd" to Kalso. We checked out a couple local restaurants and rode around town on our bikes. This adorable off to the side little town is one of the many gems in the Kootenays that must be explored. While we were in the area we also took in some hot springs action in Ainsworth. Kahzik's monkey "Samson" was the lucky toy who got to join us on this adventure and ended up making it into the bulk of the photos, in some of which he decided to very rudely pass gas in a restaurant, sending Kaz into hysterics. Oh well...

Lucy