Day 6 - Storms

We saw it coming. For days the forecast has been showing thunder storms for Sunday. Last night we had a few showers as we slept. I told Kaitlin to get me up if she heard rain drops on the tent and about 11:30 she did just that. It wasn't anything too serious, but it was a little cool this morning as we awoke.

We had our regular oatmeal cereal and hot chocolate breakfast and took down camp and rode over to the LDS Trail Ward to attend church. It seems that whenever we visit any wards, they are always having stake conference when we visit and that is what happened today as well. The meeting was being broadcast into the building, so we attended anyway, but it wasn't a good meeting for Eli to get a feel for what we do on Sundays. He was good about it, but I haven't had a chance to talk with him about if he has any questions about it.

We had to get riding and rode from Trail to Castlegar and then to Nelson, BC, in which we are spending the night tonight. We are staying in a hostel because the weather is supposed to be bringing rain.l. As we rode here, we went through two pretty big storms. We saw the storms coming and tried to make it to Castlegar, but it didn't wait for us. It started blowing and raining like crazy and we pulled in to a house that had a porch and asked if we could wait things out there. The owner of the home was very kind and even asked if we wanted some water or something. We told him we had water and just wanted the protection and we waited for about 30 minutes and it rained and hailed very hard. We then started riding again and another storm hit us. We just kept riding through this one. Riding in the rain here is a little colder than riding in the rain was on the east coast.

We also took a side road that was recommended and regretted the decision later. The road was called "Blewett Road" and we kind of blew it in choosing the route. It took us on a climb that was very difficult up the side of a mountain. It was beautiful on top, but we were worn out after the climb.

We are staying in the White House hostel here in Nelson. It seems like a nice place, but Kait refuses to sleep in the sheets and is sleeping in her sleeping bag on the bed as I write this. We have a day off from riding tomorrow and will check this town out a bit.