Sunday 8 June Happy Father's Day.

Breakfast at Hedley centre this morning. They hold a pancake breakfast the second Sunday of each month and today harkens to be Father's day in Canada. $8 gets you 2 pancakes, 2 eggs, bacon or sausage and bottomless cups of coffee/tea. Joe had to help me finish off my pancakes!

By 9.30 they had served 71 meals and stll had half an hour of serving. It's going to be a hot one today and our plans to drive to Oliver (next to Osoyoos which is forecast to topple heat records today) for lunch at a Mexican restaurant have been scuppered. Instead, Joe has kindly offered (read, been nagged into it) to make his amazing Taco salad bowls for our dinner! Vicki and I head to a neighbour's front yard to collect elderflowers from the tree out front. The house is up for sale so Vicki checked with the owner first that it was okay for us to take the flowers. The flowers are going to be made into jellies, jams, syrups or anything else Vicki finds a recipe for.

Back home it is cuppa time. I bought a mug at Butchart Gardens and have told Vicki that I am leaving it here when I leave so that they can remember me. Vicki has made up some sticky labels with the saying from the mug on it for me. She has suggested that I leave a sticker on a friend's door after I visit, but I think I'll stick it on their toilet cistern when I leave!

You'll just have to invite me over some time to find out where the sticker goes!

Joe and I head off to Keremeos to buy some cherries. It is the first day of sales for this season. Love cherries. Vicki and I reminisced about when we were kids and how excited we would get when we found a pair of cherries in the bowl so that we could wear them as earrings!

For lunch, Joe made us all Ruben sandwiches and we watched a movie (Avengers, a brave new world). Don't know that I would have bothered going to the movies to see it, but it was fine to fill the afternoon, seeing as it is so very hot outside. Now it's time for cocktails and Vicki has sorted through the recipes to come up with her version of a few favourites. Joe is in charge of the ice so that must mean that I'm the official taste tester, something I am well qualified for.

First off is a Butterfly Margarita. Sweet and very easy on the palate.

Next up we have a Stormy Morning.

Time for a Passionfruit Royale.

So it is now 9pm and still 30 degrees! We've watched a movie with Robert Deniro call Alto Kings. Not sure that the alcohol is helping with the heat but I'll be back in cold and wet Adelaide soon enough.

Time to try out a Violet Fizz.

Vicki and Joe decide that they are hungry but I'm not so we forego dinner and instead they have cake and yoghurt. I'm happy with a glass of Chateau cardboard Sav Blanc. It has been a fabulous Canadian holiday and I've had the best time in Hedley. I will certainly miss my four furry little friends. Oh and I'll miss Vicki and Joe too!

Time for bed for my last night. Sigh...