Day 24: Wed, July 27th " On the Road to Dawson City!"

Day 24: Wed, July 27 "On the Road to Dawson City!!"

Woke up at our lakeview site at Twin Lakes and had an easy cereal breakfast again. Amelia Wren was awake at 7am and snuggled into bed with me and Oliver up in the Lion's Den.

Ollie rode bikes and played with Ezzie while we got packed up. The dad from the other family had arrived yesterday and works at the yukon campsites doing maintenance. The family had followed him here to Twin Lakes to hang out. While we were getting all our things packed away, the kids and I were watching the dad, Geoff, do some work with the bobcat. Minutes later, Geoff drove up in his bobcat and asked Oliver if he wanted a ride. Ollie immediately ran over, bike helmet still on, and asked if he could ride in the bobcat. How exciting!!!  Ollie replaced his helmet with some peltor ear protection and rode in the bobcat and dug up some dirt. He actually drove it himself (with Geoff in the bobcat, of course) back to our site. His smile was as wide as could be!  As he drove up, Amelia shouted, "Meemee try! Meemee try!".   Next time, little mite.

We left Twin Lakes around noon, and on the way to Carmacks, Jonathan was stung by a wasp that flew into the car window and down the back of his shirt. He was hollering and swatting, but managed to expertly maintain control of the RV. I was in the back with the kids and jumped up to help see if the wasp was still there, but it was gone.  Oh man.  Ollie and Jonathan had just been investigating some wasps that were digging around near our campsite earlier.

When we reached Carmacks a short drive later, and stopped at the little burger joint for lunch (just off the side of the highway). While we were eating, Devon and family rolled into the parking lot and Devon jumped out to advise us that the Gold Rush RV Park was full, but he pulled a few strings and made us a reservation with his mum who owns it. Sweet!!  Oh, and when we got cell range and I had texted Geoff with Jonathan's cell number, as they had been chatting and were going to exchange numbers. When I texted the information to the number on Jonathan's phone, the return text from Geoff advised that his daughter, Leah, had just been stung by wasps 22 times. Poor girl!   A waspy day.

Sometime around 3pm we passed through Pelly Crossing. Amelia had a meltdown in the carseat and we had to pull over to calm her down before hitting the road again.

We arrived in DAWSON CITY around 6:30pm… yehaw!!! We did it!! It was pretty neat to roll in there and imagine how things must have been during the Gold Rush times.  We pulled in to see our friends waving, and Sally welcoming us! It was a nice evening, and apparently Dawson has had lots of rain lately. 

We parked in our little space among the other RV's in the parking lot style RV park. We also got our free shower tokens from Diane, thanks to Super Sally :)

Wandered around town and went for fish and chips at Sourdough Joe's. I ordered the two piece cod and chips and the kids ate most of my meal! They love fish these days!  Jonathan enjoyed a beer and I enjoyed a glass of wine to celebrate making it to Dawson City. We went next door to the little ice cream shop on Front Street and Amelia chose strawberry, and Ollie chose blue bubblegum flavour. We all enjoyed our desserts and wandered around town investigating the buildings and getting our bearings. Most shops were closed. Jonathan poked his head into Diamond Gertie's Gambling Parlour and considered coming by later that night to watch a can-can show (but never did).  We played along a boardwalk by the Yukon School of Arts for a bit. Ollie teaching Amelia how to play tag again. She is a good sport.

As usual, this daylight dealio makes us lose track of time so easily and it was 11pm again before the kids went to bed. This time I remembered that I brought Melatonin and gave the kids a tiny dose before bed. They nodded off easily and Missy Moo stayed asleep all night and didn't wake up the next morning until 8:30am.