Thankful for the parking site at Hi Country RV park last night ($22)... And soooo thankful to find out that the showered are free... No loonies needed, AND they were clean and had ample hot water. Hurray! It has been a few days since we have all had a proper shower and Oliver's feet reek from wearing sweaty sneakers with no socks.
After such a late night, the kids were very sleepy this morning. Jonathan went and paid for our overnight since we rolled in after midnight last night, got the code for the shower building and went for a lovely long shower. I went next while he woke the kids up and got them eating cereal. I came back and collected the two of them and took them for their showers and scrubbed the dickens out of Ollie's feet with a bristle foot brush I brought along. Amelia doesn't enjoy showers and it was harder to get her properly soaped and rinsed, but we managed!
Left Hi-Country at 11:45am after waiting in the line up at the sani dump. We drove into Whitehorse and grabbed lunch at Tim Hortons. Met some folks from Maple Ridge. So many people up here are from places close to where we live.
Jonathan dropped me and the monkeys at the very large and fun playground by the river front and he drove off to search parts stores for a new thermostatic fan hub (clutch). We both had some stresses ... Jonathan trying to locate a part and then also figure out the fastest and most economical way to get it within reach on our route. He made plans with NAPA to have it shipped to Watson Lake and we could have them install it when we drove back through on the way home. ... Me dealing with over tired kids and Ollie needing to go to the bathroom but not wanting to use the outhouse at the playground, or the visitors center bathroom, despite many return attempts at both places. With the bribe of a cake pop at Starbucks, he managed to agree to use the visitor centre washroom on the third try and had success. We also visited the toy store again, and as we entered Ollie told Amelia , "we're not buying anything Meemee, we are just looking ok?" this did not stop him from asking to buy numerous toys he found. Even Amelia kept asking, "Meemee buy dat, right now!" we had to evacuate the store when I discovered Amelia quietly picking her way through the opening of a cardboard box on a baby toy. We also visited a book store that had toys in the back area. Ollie was interested in a kid's Wild magazine that had an article on moths. I was going to buy them some funny faces stickers when Jonathan rang and tried to explain his frustrations and trials with getting the parts. I heard the kids screeching and thumping each other over the little shopping cart in the kid section and had to hang up in Jonathan and haul them both out of the store screaming. Oh dear. Once outside, it took a little while to calm down but he managed. We agreed to try again and they were great. I bought the moth magazine, but no stickers. Called Jonathan back and we agreed to meet at the playground. Amelia fell asleep in the chariot on the walk over.
In the parking lot Jonathan installed the New u-bolts he bought so that Ollie could have his car seat across from Amelia (so he can see out the window better and cannot touch Amelia when he "stretches and exercises".)
Ollie wanted to show daddy the exercise park beside the playground. The same one that he wiped out in a big dirty puddle and got his pants and jacket filthy in. Another small calamity in our afternoon out.
I searched Google for a NAPA in Dawson City and they have an affiliate store... So we ordered the fan part from there and it will arrive Saturday. Will get it installed in Dawson City. Hoping it will help our fuel economy. Cancelled the Whitehorse order. After sandwiches, we left Whitehorse around 5:30pm with Ollie in his New seat position and Amelia beside the other window with a better view.
We decided to stop before Carmacks at Twin Lakes - a Yukon campground ($12) at km 308. It was 8:15pm and Ollie had fallen asleep sometime around 7:30pm in his car seat. We made made the call to stop sooner and attempt to put Ollie straight to bed for the night. Turned out to be a wise choice! We pulled into site #13 beside another site that had two families with kids around Ollie's age. We prepped Ollie's bed up top and managed to get him into his jammies and up into bed with no disturbance.
Made spaghetti for dinner and for Amelia ready for bed around 10pm... She was asleep about 30min later in my bed. Ollie had woken up while I was snuggling Amelia and I managed to get Jonathan's attention outside (he was finally back to working on his chain carving after many days hiatus). Jonathan came in and soothed Ollie back to sleep after feeding him some apples and cucumber. Yay!
We were outside for a bit and I heard Ollie calling for me. I crept in and went uo to snuggle him. He said his legs bothered him and then he rolled over and went back to sleep holding my hand. I woke up sometime later and started to creep back down the ladder. I found Amelia face first on the floor at the bottom of the ladder sucking her thumb and fast asleep. She had rolled off my bed and had enough duvet piled beside her that she must have just slid gently. Oops. I put her to bed and then said goodnight to Jonathan who had just had a visit from the neighbour, Devon, and I hit the hay.
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