Excellent atmosphere, cheerful and gracious staff, amazing service and BREADSTICKS!!! Salad was delicious, sauce creamy and pasta cooked to perfection! Seated right next to an old style window with quaint curtains, Ivy covering the wall outside, it was truly an experience. Oh and did I mention…breadsticks!!!
Category: Just For Fun
2020 Exploration Updates – Now InstaScenes
As I step into this new year, I feel my effort can be better spent by using InstaGram’s built in features of Stories. Starting today, you’ll start seeing updates of where I’m at and what I’m doing, a quicker way of keeping you in the know, and an easier way for me to keep track of where I’ve been!
Any helpful feedback is greatly appreciated as I embark on this new adventure, one that has encouraged me to get out more and show off my beautiful town, and hopefully, maybe someday, the world!
The Property Guys.com Okanagan
★
Not trustworthy, takes pictures of items located on the home next to place that they are selling to make the property look better.
https://g.page/TeamHarris?share
Orchard Plaza Shopping Centre
1980 Cooper Rd #201, Kelowna, BC V1Y 8K5
★★★★★
Having been in this town for many years, I’ve watched this mall swallow up the space Wal-Mart Left, putting in a food court, and later a Sport Chek, Timmies, EB Games & Best Buy, and now expanding once again. They really concern themselves with making it into a hub for people to chill, relax, and do some therapy shopping!! There are also seasonal shops which pop up in the middle of the other shops, check them out during the holidays for favorites such as the Log Barn!
It’s always fairly clean for the amount of traffic that goes through. This location also makes an excellent place to have a wind friendly walk in the early hours, (as later hours do get crowded) for those who don’t wish to be stuck to a treadmill.
Excited to see what you guys have in store!
https://goo.gl/maps/3a3ByLjCztsUaMSNA
September 2019 Exploration Update
Alrighty! September 2019 Exploration Update with SarahTonin
Special Guest Star – Raven from Teen Titans! (Lucky to snag her before she headed off back to her room!)
HI I’m Raven, I just got back from Random Acts of Costuming, where we cheered up some kids and some people, I put on my best smile, and now without any further ado, here is SarahTonin’s Exploration Update for the Month of September. Teen Titans GO!
Shout out to Random Acts of Costuming, check them out on Facebook and follow them there, more on that next month.
Didn’t go many places, but we did make some delicious shish kabobs and had a corn feast, which if you see there, I’ve taken two slices of tomato and slathered them on the corn. (This to be done after normal condiments applied, butter, salt and pepper) That’s how you do it RIGHT!
Saw this spectacular sunrise, peeking out from behind a fire hydrant.
Snapped a few shots of this excellent sunset on the way back from Vernon
Went camping, made some camp food! Yes, Omelets ARE camp food.
And there’s some power lines…
(Further) Construction on St. Paul’s
Corn Chowder! (Recipe to follow!)
The September full moon illuminated by the light of a Polar Bear!
And lights on Bernard!
Put out How to Make a Cape with Ruby
Finished my Peter Kelamis Goku Montage! (To support my work click here!)
Got some AWESOME socks at Hot Topic on Sale!
Sliced up some crab apples to make tea! Figured out a neat way of cutting them, so it doesn’t take you ALL day!
Early morning hours on Bernard; and facing the other direction
Making some Banana Bread!
Whooh – Made some egg whites you could that you could stand up straight, I made a beautiful peach meringue pie… 🙂
There’s our banana bread!
Peach meringue pie!
And these lovely ladies, that were helping with raise a reader downtown by the Capital New Centre.
Kelowna just waking up in the morning!
A peaceful, quiet Bernard Morning-GREEN LIGHT!
And a cute little mushroom glen!
Also helped raise awareness for Orange Shirt Day, check that out Online.
And I thought I’d end it on a funny note. Why can’t you Trust an Artist? Because….They’re Shady! They’re Sketchy! AND they might try to Frame you! Have a great week guys and hopefully I’ll explore way more things this month however as the winter months set in, I tend to bunker down and hibernate…and wait for the cold to go away! So you may see me venture out, once in a while, but expect to see more updates in regards to Tutorials, and other such likes! Stay Tuned!
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Interior Provincial Exhibition
★★★
IPE Fairgrounds, 3010 Wood Avenue – IPE Main Office, 3371 Pleasant Valley Rd, Armstrong, BC V0E 1B0
This used to be the place to go, however large crowds make the end of the day a nightmare, and prices going up for both the ticket and the ride passes make this location just another money grab. Sad to see this event go the way of so many others. May as well save your money and enjoy yourself at the Salmon Arm Fair.
https://goo.gl/maps/3LfKAj8B13FakubT6
June to August Exploration Update
- Black Mountain
- Macdonalds
- Valley First
- Penticon June 8th-9th
- Around Downtown
- Library
- Had a Crow chase me!
- KGH Hospital Cheer Visit 15th
- Parents for father’s day -16th
- Match Eateries – Stopped to play a piano by the Center for the arts
- Scandia Golf & Games
- A bike through a car window! Crazy goings on downtown!
- Pianos in the parks! Kelowna Pianos 🙂
- Kangaroo Farm –
-Peafowl! - -SIDE NOTE – DON’T PULL OUT THE PEACOCK FEATHERS! PARENTS PLEASE KEEP AN EYE ON KIDS PULLING FEATHERS – THIS IS A PLEA FROM THE OWNERS!
- Snug Lake
- Downtown Kelowna for July 1st
- Demo almost done! (From previous update) Construction starting!
- Hat I made!
- Berry Picking that turned into Frog Finding!
- Exploring Spider in our kitchen sink
- Construction on St. Pauls
- Parents to hang out with chesterfield as everyone was off for dinner
- Fabricland Escapade provided a spectacular view whilst stuck in traffic
- Christmas in July! – Thought I Found Santa! For more on that check here!
- RAOCD – Chibis & KGH Visit July *SHOUT OUT TO CHIBIS!
- Accident by Tonic’s Pub, Koodos to Support staff on Scene
- Naramata – Hillside Winery & Bistro
- Flashback – Anyone remember the Flinstones?
- Crane on St. Pauls
- Black OPS 4, visors look like WALL-E Exploring with WALL-E
- Raven off to RAOCD Hospital Visit again!
- Art on sidewalk by Rotary Centre for the Arts – Can anyone identify this artist?
- Replacements for the parking meters on St. Paul!
- Thor’s Hammer
- Lord Shenron biding us a fare travel to AR
- Ruby off to AR!
- Shushwap
- The Munkey Fist
- Kelowna Curling Club Field
- Goku – Check out my DevianArt!
- Chachis
- Cat in a backpack – Sir Kel-Miester! for parks alive, where we watched my buddy Gee perform! (Instagram) (Facebook)
- Construction on St. Paul’s
*Special Thanks to Sweetnams for my super Ruby Rose hero socks!*
Vancouver Convention Centre
★★★★★
1055 Canada Pl, Vancouver, BC V6C 0C3
Gorgeous location that provides built in backdrops such as the harbor, with tons of space for large groups!
https://goo.gl/maps/GfPr7XMqEBiUVVVp9
Staples
★
2339 BC-97 Unit 430, Kelowna, BC V1X 4H9
Just spent 5 minutes on hold, pressed 1 to speak to a print associate, only to have them return me to the main menu. I tried again, this time dialing 2, and an associate picked it up, put it on the desk, I tried calling out to the employee for a good 2 minutes before hanging up and trying again. I eventually hung-up, called back, only to have the phone picked up and hung up. I have tried 5 times since this, however, every-time the hold time is up, it returns me to the main menu. Menu option 1 still has a dial tone, meaning option 2’s phone is still sitting on the desk. This is terrible customer service, coupled with a horrible phone system.
I’m not the only one, just check out the low star reviews!
https://goo.gl/maps/zcqFiEMNfwi8dtvG8
https://goo.gl/maps/VBY9XK68YtH7Ntry9
After being unable to get through after 20 minutes, I phoned head office, as I see this is a pattern and is completely unacceptable.
Head office not only listened, told me how they are going to follow back up with an action plan, but also offered me a coupon in regards to the item I’d been trying to call them about to ask. Head office gets 5 stars, this location still gets 1.
We’ll have to come back to/ callback this location in a few months and see if promised improvements are made!)
https://goo.gl/maps/Q2v7oLjryNDjYCm19
Mr Mozzarella Kelowna Pizza & Wings
★★★★★
11-4600 Lakeshore Rd, Kelowna, BC V1W 1X4
This place is incredible! Once a month, they hold a pizza draw online, and when you win, you get LOADED with pizza!!! Our office of 20 was easily fed by the amount, their pizza was delectable and their wings not soggy! I feel this place makes their product for the right reasons, and I hope their quality and care will continue!
https://goo.gl/maps/3Rynmf3ckgJ2RSKR9