Amanda and Dan go on an Adventure

Labour Day Weekend 2013
Dan and I decided to drive a Circle Route starting in Abbotsford, taking the Fraser Canyon through Boston Bar, Lytton, Lillooet, Pemberton, Whister and home again. Oh, and did I mention we did it in one day? With two kids? And we had FUN! We didn't have high hopes when we started. The goal of the day was to make it to Boston Bar so that Joel could see the tunnels. Its a slight obsession of his. But we made it much further!

Our first stop of the day was the Confluence. This is where the Thompson and Fraser River meet. We taught Joel all about the confluence and how the Fraser is the dirty river and the Thompson is the clean river. And what happens when they converge? They become one big dirty river. It is so cute to hear him say confluence and know what that means!

After a little education, the boys take a few moments to play with rocks. (a semi theme of their day).

A view from a top of the hill.

A few kilometers from the confluence, there is a little two car ferry that goes across the river. I saw it advertised online before we left, and knew that if we could find it, we HAD to go across.

We thought that we would just walk on, go across the ferry, and come back.

But the ferry drivers, waved us on with the van. So we went across the river.

We kind of felt a bit stupid driving across, turning around and going back. So we decided to drive down the road for a few minutes and then go back.

But before we did, we saw signs advertising the Stein Valley.

So we drove twenty minutes down the road to the Stein Valley trail head.