4 More Days To Go.......

So, it turned out to be a rough night in the rough motel. Molly woke up 3 times which is really unusual, Jensen had a very restless night and I heard him wimpering or calling out twice in the night, and I fought to actually stay on the bed all night. Not only did the mattress angle to the side trying to dump you on the floor, but the entire motel leaned to the side. Understand, I spent many years in England and in older homes that had personalty with creaky and uneven floors, but this place could not be defined as having personality, unless that personality was crappy. The place was literally starting to fall over. It really was a bit of a dump, but the fella that ran it, Dennis, was worth the stay. He was a great guy with lots of stories, and just as nice as could be. He even made the kiddos Mickey Mouse pancakes for breakfast. Because of him, I will not say that the place was worthless. Also, the best thing of the stay was that Dennis has a big old German Shepard that chose Beau's car to pee all over :-) Made me laugh out loud!

We started out our drive at -6 degrees this morning, and I swear it took an hour for the car to warm up inside. It was cold!!! Of course, I've been told by Beau that this morning in Eagle River, which is just north of Anchorage and where we are considering living, that they awoke to
-20 degrees. I seriously need to buy some long underwear! Once again, we really had good driving conditions. There was snow on the sides of the road and a bit of a covering on the roads, but nothing too slick at all. We made it to Whitehorse for lunch and also were glad to find that it was a big enough town to have a Walmart. We were getting seriously low on snack food for the kiddos, and that would be a MAJOR catastrophy to run out of. We reloaded on some supplies, got Jensen a McDonald's cheeseburger, which he inhaled and was to date the best meal he has eaten since this adventure started, saw a Starbucks across the parking lot and refueled John and Beau with that, almost got rear-ended by Beau when we originally pulled into town because the back of our car was soooo filthy he couldn't see our brake lights, washed the car off so that that wouldn't happen again, and headed out of town for our next destination for the evening.

On the way to Haines Junction, our stop of the night, we saw a red fox, which was the first one of those that we had seen. He was really cute, from a distance obviously. The road did seem to get a little bit more packed with snow and ice as we pulled into town, and we found one of the two hotels available at this time of the year and got checked in. We have a great suite tonight, and it totally makes up for the crummy room last night. After dinner, we noticed that the no vacancy sign was lit up, so we were thankful that we had gotten into town when we did. Tomorrow will be our final day in Canada and then we will be in Alaska on US soil. We still aren't planning on getting into Anchorage until sometime Friday, but it's nice to know that we're getting close to the end of the journey. The kids are loving spending time with Grandad and have adopted Beau as one of their favs. It's probably a good thing because Grandad let slip today that the "Hutch and Beau Show" were dicussing recipes last night........just let the wierdness of that sink in for a moment! Good thing this trip is almost over, I think they've spent too much time together :-)