Part 2: More the Naramata side of things

Our room at The Naramata Herritage Inn and Spa. I believe it was the Okanagan Room. Fabulous place!!! Continental breakfasts to die for! Housemade granola, assortment of dried fruit/berries/nuts to add in, yogurt, fresh fruit salad, house baked 7 or 9 grain bread, housemade preserves, cheeses, and some other bread product (usually danishes, croissants). And of course, the orange juice/coffee/tea as well. Claw-footed tub in the room, balcony with bistro set out our back door, view of Okanagan Lake...amazing.

A little blurry but I just had to throw in a picture of us with a massive lilac bush. Naramata seems like a real-life Starshollow (Gilmore Girls). Everywhere you walk smells like lilacs and there are giant lilac bushes absolutely everywhere. They have a town peacock and peahen, Harley and Pearl (we met Harley on one of our evening walks). We even went to their May Day festivities and saw their "royal party" and grade 3 and 4 students dancing around the May Pole. What a place!

Mmm, Sumac Ridge. We had dinner here of salmon on a bed of roasted veggies and some leek compote with a half litre of their white Meritage. Before we even ordered our server came out with 2 glasses of their Pinnacle wine, compliments of them, because they heard it was our honeymoon. We still have no idea how they knew this. Seriously folks, we've pretty much exhausted all possibilities. In any case, I think we finished our meal off with some kind of cheesecake (mascapone? ricotta?). Such a nice staff, such good food and wine, we'll be back.

The last winery we visited, Mission Hill. How gorgeous. I could try to describe all the beauty-the bell tower, the outdoor amphitheatre, the view-but I know I can't do it justice. Seeing is believing! This is us in the vineyards...thanks to the man who invented timers on cameras.

And the last full day we were honeymooning we went up the Kettle Valley Railroad and walked (I couldn't call it a hike) to Little Tunnel. I didn't bring runners on the honeymoon so I did the 8km round trip in flip-flops. Several blisters and 20-30 minutes of walking in the rain later, we made it back to the car (it was so worth it though!) and headed back to the spa at the Inn for our couples massage and had dinner of halibut with a Lake Breeze wine for dinner at The Wine Bar in the bottom of the Inn. Fab food-yet again!-and our server was so nice.