In an attempt to convince Amelia to get to sleep last night, Ollie slept in my bed (couch bed) beside her pack n' play and when Jonathan and I finally went to bed, I didn't want to move Ollie so I braved the Lion's Den again. It was not so bad up there above the cab. I seem to be managing my claustrophobic tendencies much better!
Amelia woke up at 5am shouting, "mama OUT!" but was still lying down in her crib. I tried to wait it out, but eventually climbed down and gave her a snuggle. She went ended up in between Jonathan and I up top where I realized her diaper had leaked through her jammeia and she needed a change. After insisting on her pink monkey jammies, she eventually snuggled in and fell asleep. We did not sleep well with the little wriggle worm, but it was ok.
Crawled out of bed sometime after 9am and Jonathan biked over to "our cabin" to retrieve the last of the contents of the fridge (mainly beer) and make sure nothing was left behind. Ollie spent a good 20min in the RV catching horseflies in a cup and releasing them to the outdoors. He is quite keen about insects and adopted a particular "pincher beetle" as a friend today... Playing with it with his little transformer toy.
Jonathan came back with lousy news that Roger the Mechanic was super sick and in bed and we should try again at noon to see if he was available.
It was already hot and blazing Sun by 10:30am and Jonathan cooked us eggs and sausages and toasted bagels on the camp stove and bbq...yum!!! After breakfast the kids played a bit of lego inside and when I located our big magnifying glass I suggested Ollie may want to look at bugs with it. Jonathan got the idea of wood burning with it. He immediately set to work making a Tenta family sign. If we end up back in Watson Lake we will post it in the sign forest.
Jonathan went up to the main site and office to check on roger's status and also to call BCAA about any further suggestions and the possibility of having a tow to Whitehorse, and to send a message to Jonathan's friend in Whitehorse.
While J was back and forth I set the kids up with a bin of water to make "pinecone soup" and they had a blast dumping and stirring mud and rocks and twigs together for their "restaurant". Oliver is an excellent server! He found me a Spiderman colouring page for the menu and told me about the soup of the day (chicken) and their excellent lentil soup with bagels. I also ordered a chocolate ice cream with a cherry (pinecone) and smarties (pebbles) on top. Really great service!
We also made jello, which was very exciting to Oliver. He helped Amelia wash her hands and he tried very patiently to teach her how to make it (she was not remotely interested). Unfortunately, Ollie lost his privilege to eat the dessert after throwing a bike bell at his sister's head when we were inside the RV for a minute.
After realizing that having Roger work on putting our master cylinder back together was not going to happen today, we made a plan to walk to Butterfly Lake where Jonathan and Ollie attempted fishing last night. Jonathan carried Amelia in the c
Backpack carrier and Ollie hiked the whole way, tooting his explorer whistle to warn any bears we were coming through the woods. Jonathan and I both carried bear spray just in case. We did not meet any bears or see any sign of them during our 3 hour excursion. Nor did we catch any fish (trying for pike). Jonathan had borrowed some awesome lures from Larry the carpenter, but it was so swampy that it got snagged easily. We enjoyed the lake visit though... No beach to play at, but it was beautiful to look at from our little grassy outcrops.
On the way to the lake I spotted some unusual pellets which Jonathan guessed to be moose or elk droppings. We found four piles along the path... Some very dry and one pile less so, but not super fresh.
On the way back I spied a pile of dried up, hairy looking pellets that turned out, upon pulling them apart with a stick, to be fur balls. White short fur like a large cat... Cougar? Mountain Lion? Hmmm. Ollie was very interested, especially when we found a bone fragment in one. And even more interestingly, we found a large canine tooth in another pellet. It was about the size of a German shepherd tooth. Or large wild cat. Neat and kind of freaky to come across the furball of something that possibly ate something so big. We kept the kids even closer and took the short cut back to the RV!
8:30pm dinner of mongoli grill style chicken and veggie stir fry by daddy. Ollie had earned his dessert back after being so good with his sister on the walk, and hiking with out any complaints (she was bagged and has refused to nap earlier and slept only a bit on my back in the ergo : she was great on the walk but soooo tired).
Amelia had a quick RV bath and Ollie and daddy went to the showers to get cleaned up. (Ollie was so dirty! So much mud and sand and grit. He soaked himself at one point and ended up playing in his skivves for a small portion of the afternoon! Thank goodness we are kind of out in the boonies in this gravel RV lot).
Kids had trouble falling asleep again (Amelia worked herself up but Ollie was just fidgety and well behaved). They did finally konk out.
Oh and I need to mention that Jonathan has been carving a chain out of a single stick of wood... It is quite impressive and a fun way to spend some of the down time we have.
We have been told that Scott will come and tow our RV back to the shop in the morning. Fingers crossed that Roger is feeling better and can get something figured out.
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