We began Day 2 in Kamloops and with time to relax and take in some local scenery before journeying to the wedding.
We had breakfast at McDonald’s because I really wanted a Sausage and Egg McMuffin. And I liked it!
After, we decided to visit the disc golf course at McArthur Park. The park is billed as the second largest in BC and indeed, it is big. I think it has something like 40 soccer fields.
We discovered the course is part of UDisc and had an app. There truly is an app for everything. We downloaded the app, created accounts, selected the course, created a scorecard and were off!
As it turned out, we should have checked the course map, because we started off literally in the wrong direction, the ultimate golfer faux pas. A nice guy helped us out, but by this point time was already starting to run a bit short. I suggested we move the golfing to the next day, when we would have nothing else to do (except drive back home at some point before dark). I then shot a few pics with my camera. There was a marmot. So cute! I took a bunch of photos of it. Then we found that the marmots are everywhere. Then we also discovered the mosquitoes–or rather, they discovered us. I further suggested we get out instead of being eaten alive. We did so.
We planned on leaving around 1 p.m. for the 3 p.m. wedding ceremony, but ended up heading out around half an hour later. At first, things were fine. The weather was partly cloudy, and the drive to Chase is along a flat stretch of highway that parallels the South Thompson River. As we approached Chase, I entered the address into the in-car navigator. We end up on a gravel road, but it seems to be going the right way. We continue on and it tells us we’ve arrived a short time later. But we’re at some random farm. As it turns out, it mysteriously stopped us far too soon. We (or rather I, because I totally should have realized what was happening) made the first wrong move: We switched to Google Maps. It sent us back and way off course. Time was starting to run short. I keyed the route into Apple Maps. It wanted to send us around the far side of Little Shuswap Lake–a route that would take us many km out of our way. We finally figured out we had been going the right way initially and returned to the gravel road.
Jeff drove at what one might call a brisk pace. Perhaps just a little above the posted 40 KPH speed limit. Perhaps. We also saw a scruffy young bear, which was sort of cute. Mom was probably just out of view, waiting to rip out the throat of anyone getting close to her kid.
We arrived literally a few minutes before 3 p.m.–technically not late!
As it turned out, the ceremony was late in starting, so it all turned out fine in the end.
Taylor and Derek got married in a barn. Or a very barn-like building. It was rustic.
After the ceremony, we had plenty of time to hang out and schmooze with people we didn’t know. I took a few more pics of horses, giant bugs and things, which I will link to in a gallery that will be magically edited into this post later.
While waiting for the reception and dinner, guests could choose from some snacks outside the hall, as shown below.
- On the left: Meat, cheese and brownies
- On the right: Veggies
The dinner was nice, though there didn’t seem to be any butter for the dinner buns. Maybe they were trying to be healthy after plying us with prepared meats and brownies beforehand.
In all, it all went as one would hope a wedding and reception would–short, but ice ceremony, speeches at the reception that ranged from thoughtful to funny, and were also short (you may be detecting a theme here), and good simple food without anything totally weird that would make people go back outside to see if any salami was left over (there wasn’t).
After the dinner and dessert (more brownies! Plus cheesecake), we headed back to our hotel before it got dark and wound down the evening, tucking in around 11 p.m. We both slept very well that night, probably because we were worn out from driving up and down that gravel road about a hundred times. I still see it in my dreams.
