Jumping ahead a little... It is too tiring to tap out the past few days of information involving the RV breakdown. I will try to fill that in another day! Here is the lowdown on yesterday instead!...
We had a good night's sleep last night after visiting the Takhinni Hot springs. Had a great little campsite at the Hotsprings Campground surrounded by thin poplars with gently rustling leaves.
Amelia slept better in her sleepsack combination and slept in until 8:45am... Whew! Jonathan made us a lovely pancake and eggs and sausages breakfast as per his specialty. The friendly office staff came by at 11:15am to advise us it was past check out time but that she would not charge us the extra $20 fee of we could clear out by noon. So, we did our best to pack everything up... Jonathan doing most of it while I tried to dry dishes at the picnic table while also engaging in Oliver's game if freeze tag that he was trying to teach Amelia. She was quite delighted to chase him around. He then changed the came to hide and seek in the thin forest at our site but I was not comfortable with him wandering off and ducking out of sight! - so he and Amelia and I walked a short path to the base of a large rocky hill and climbed to the top. Pretty exciting stuff. On the way back to the RV Oliver suddenly shrieked and dropped the stick he was carrying. I thought he got a sliver or something. He was crying his eyes out and said, through sobs, that something hit him on the finger. ??? I figured a bug or something but he said no. Just then, a pinecone fell from the tree above us. A little red squirrel was scurrying around and plucking them off, eating the seeds and chucking the cones. One had hit Ollie right on the knuckle and left a mark! Kinda funny. (Ollie was only convinced this was ok after daddy told him it was good luck to be hit by a squirrel cone).
We filled the water tank and emptied the black and grey water tanks at the Sani station there and finally rolled off the property around 12:45pm. Still avoided the extra night fee.
We drove to Whitehorse again to return some parts at NAPA and get money back on the old master cylinder we returned to recycle. I popped over to the liquor store to buy a bottle of wine for us to thank Denise at NAPA who was the wonderful lady there that Jonathan talked to over the phone from Nugget City and who found us the right parts and hooked us up with her customer, Erin from Watson Lake Motors, for the quick and free delivery of the part that night.
Jonathan did the NAPA exchange while I took the kids to a little playground at the elementary school across the road. Those two rascals just light up when they get to a new playground. They have been to some super fun ones!
When we got back to the RV, Jonathan was inside chatting on the phone with Al and explaining some our our misery we had been through at Nugget City. He then called Grandma T for a minute and she had Vinnie and Billie Rose visiting! Ollie and Vinnie got to exchange hellos.
We had decide to take a little detour and head south via Carcross, YK to Atlin, BC. We reached Carcross around 4pm. It was very strange to see the landscape change... Sand dunes!! In the middle.of the mountains! We rolled in and parked by the stairs that lead down to the beautiful sandy beach. The wind was blowing and waves rolling across the lake. It felt like home! We met a group of tourists and they were quite interested in our old RV. One of the couples had an old camper van too and Jonathan gave them a quick tour while I took the littles down to play at the beach. What a neat little town! We stayed for a couple of hours just milling around and exploring. We visiting the oldest working General store... Met the lovely family that runs it. They are from Kelowna and come up each summer to run the place. Very friendly. We bought Jonathan a new checkered hoody fleece, since his went missing in the Bermuda triangle that was Nugget City, and a cute little red fleece hoody for Amelia and some very yummy ice creams!!!
At 6pm we were back on the road and heading south back into BC to reach the litw community of Atlin. It was farther than we thought and we made the decision to pull over and camp at the next available Yukon site after Snafu Lake. It turned out to be Tarfu Lake and was 4km in off of the main road we were traveling. It was a windy gravel road that got a little bumpy but not bad. We found a site we liked and parked. I heated up lentil soup (toot soup as Oliver calls it) for the Kids and leftover spaghetti for us while Jonathan zipped down and paid our $12 in the self pay envelopes and box.
It was pretty windy in there. Neat forest... Very scrubby. Ponerosa pine. Not many people there camping , but we did end up with a neighbour later in the night.
We attempted to put a tired Amelia down at 9pm or so. Now this is EARLY for these monkeys these days. It looked promising and then NO. Jonathan had take Ollie down to the lake to see the Bat box and so I brought Meemer out in the ergo for a cuddle walk around our site. We didn't have a neighbour at this point and it was a little bit creepy in the middle of nowhere. I didn't wander far! Amelia was getting closer to snoozing when Ollie and Jonathan returned (Ollie wearing Amelia's new coat) and that was it. Hopeless to continue the bedtime attempt. We made a cool dirt city instead... Ollie mastered setting up twigs in a teepee formation. Amelia set out speci rocks very carefully placed. It was very fun. Unfortunately we missed any kind of opportunity for a relaxed bedtime. We felt bad for our neighbours... Both kids had meltdowns. We got them to sleep eventually! And hit the hay ourselves soon after.
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