Redundant Scenery?

Crossing into Canada - a soggy June 20th

Sitting in a 2-star RV park just south of Prince George in British Columbia.  It looks like a cross between a mobile home park and a RV campground!  Seems like we've left the rain behind for awhile.  It's really a mess in Calgary.  They evacuated something like 75,000 people.  Don't know if the road between Jasper and Banff is open yet or not.  The girls and I have been there before (when we drove to Texas with Granny) but Jeff hasn't seen it.  So I guess we might have to go that way on the way home.  Our detour took us southwest when we are trying to go North but we are headed that way now.

Traveling North into the Mountains

We stayed at a really pleasant RV park in Cache Creek last night and met a young couple from Fairbanks.  Jade and Mya played in the pool with Dannon and Ethan (5 and 2) last night.  Weather was perfect.  I could have stayed there longer but Alaska beckons.  This is the leg of the trip I was dreading because it's so long and as Jeff proclaimed today, "Redundant" -lol!  We've only been in Canada 3 days and already he's noticed that the scenery doesn't change much.  It's either mountainous with trees so close to the road, it's claustrophobic or it clears out a bit and we see pastureland.

t

They farm marshmallows in Canada!!!  These are actually
hay bales covered in some kind of plastic or fabric.

We did see a big black bear dart across the road yesterday though.  And a bunch of rodents that Jade is calling "those little brown things".  We don't know if they are prairie dogs or gophers or ground squirrels.  Need to google it and find out the difference.  We keep seeing signs warning of moose and deer (and one Badger crossing sign)  but haven't seen any yet.

Lunch on a lookout above the Frazier
River on our way to Prince George.

The guy that runs this RV park is kind of a "crab cake".  He asked if we had dogs and I said, "no, just two kids", and he said "Well, they probably shouldn't around too much."  So after dinner I told the girls that we need to get our eggs and run around and go egg all the tenants rigs:-)  That'll fix 'em.  He's probably just crabby because it's hot.  It's currently 92 degrees and it's 6:15 p.m.  What happened to the arctic cold??

Tomorrow we head to Dawson Creek (which is northeast of here).  We seem to be zigzagging our way north.  Then we'll head Northwest all the way.  Jeff is doing most of the driving.  He doesn't make a good passenger (his own words, but I do have to agree.  He starts giving driving advice - ack!!!)  We've been doing about 6 hours a day and that is plenty.  The girls are actually doing surprisingly well. They take turns sitting up in front with Jeff. We taught them all about the lines on the road and what solid yellow lines mean and dotted yellow lines, when you can pass, when you can't, etc.  They will be expert drivers by the time we are done:-)  I was eavesdropping on  their conversation this morning and Jade was giving Mya a lot of "big sister" advice about what it's like being a middle schooler.  It was really cute.  Jade said middle school is like a video game and you have to keep going, going, going, adapting or you die and have to start all over again - lol!!! An apt analogy from what I can tell!!!!

Time for our nightly game of UNO.  Sleep tight:-)