Michele’s Musings

People have been commenting to me about the price of gas, so I am going to post the price/L as well as the $ we spent.  Although James didn’t get a receipt with the L’s at every stop.  We’ll add it up at the end :) 

We left Edmonton Friday night at 9:30, quick run to Safeway for gas (123.8/L 7c off Club price)… then home again as we forgot pillows!  I started off driving so James could get more rest.  I made it as far as Lloydminster at midnight, it was dark and I must say, you don’t appreciate the lines on the road until they aren’t there!  There is construction on the hwy so for about 20 Km there are only white dots where a center line would be  and no lines on the shoulder, plus there were idiot’s passing me going well over the construction speed limit, and to add to the fun, it started raining on and off.  James took over for the rest of the night, and it pretty much rained all night for him.  We stopped in Regina SK at 6 am for gas (137.9/L full serve- $110) and to switch drivers. 

Sunrise on the Prairies!

Stopped to top up the gas and hit the washroom at Elk Horn MB ($47 for a top up and 2 coffees) I have to say I was quite amused that their ladies room has no feminine hygiene dispensers but I could buy a variety of condoms for $1.25 each lol  Shortly after we hit Brandon to switch drivers, Jamie’s turn again! 

Children packed in and James getting his sandels out of the back, decided 24 hours wearing one pair of socks in his runners was enough.  I OTOH brought no socks with me for the trip, my feet will be FREE lol

Driving across SK and MB is very boring, really nothing to break up the monotony other than roadkill (occationally stinky) and the debris of blown tires, which I have to say was a bit disconserting….  We didn’t have to stop often because my children can hold their bladders like camels do water, it was James and I needing the pee breaks, wonder if the endless stream of Tim’s coffee had anything to do with it?   Then just before we hit Winnipeg a guy in a sports car passed us doing well over the speed limit, he just flew by us and we tend to go about 10 over, as we hit the Winnipeg bypass James noticed the RCMP had him pulled over lol sucker!  Nice to see them get caught once in awhile.  At Winnipeg we switched drivers again, my turn….. until Kenora, the endless Prairie’s are hard on my eyes for driving, very straining.  Topped up the gas again (137.9/L full serve - $83) and the terrain started to get more interesting finally as we hit the Canadian Shield

Then onto Dryden where we are staying at the Best Western.  There was a bit of a mix up with our room, the internet reservations are not catching the children, so we almost ended up with only one bed!  The front desk said they have had three reservations this week where that happened so they are logging the errors.  Then we got given someone else’s room, we noticed when we opened the door and saw clothing scattered around the room… then we were given a room that wasn’t cleaned yet, after about 10 minutes we finally got settled and they offered to reduce our rate to compensate for the headache.  We had a great dinner in the hotel restaurant then took the kids swimming and enjoyed a soak in the hot tub, heavenly after 18 hours of driving!  The kids made friends in the pool of course.  Now it’s time for bed, have to be up early  as we want an early start.   Oh and tomorrow we are on moose watch, the front desk clerk says this wet weather is making the bugs worse which is making the moose skittish, which in turn causes them to JUMP out on the hwy with no notice at all…. wish us luck!

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