Mother Knows Best: We made it home

Not much to tell about the drive back up here - thankfully it was not as eventful as the drive down! The car stayed in one piece, the kid only puked once, and we made it back a day early so we had a full day before Chris had to be back at work. We met up with our friend John in Edmonton for dinner again, the next day we wandered aimlessly around west ed till about 1:30 when we decided it was time to suck it up and hit the road. We got into Grande Prairie around six and phoned a family of friends that we haven't seen since we were married - we didn't even know they lived there otherwise we would have stopped on the way down too. We didn't end up leaving Grande Prairie till about 9:00 - both Chris and I were refreshed though and wanted to get to Ft St John that night. We left Fort St John at about 11:00 and wanted to at least make Muncho Lake - it was what we figured would be the halfway point to home. We had made plans to meet with some friends of ours on the side of the road for lunch between here and there. Jen, Evan and Hunter were on their way south and moving back to Ontario. They had all their dogs and most of what they could get packed into their truck and trailer with them. They will be back up again in the fall for the dogsledding season. So as we are going through a somewhat lengthy construction area Chris and I were chatting about how it would suck if this is where we ended up meeting Jen and Evan, well I don't know what Murphy has against me but sure as shit sitting at the other end of the construction zone sticking out like a hugely sore thumb *smiles* are Jen, Evan, Hunter and the trailer! Go to www.havesleddogswilltravel.blogspot.com and you will see why I laugh when I think about it. Once we were finished lunch and back on the road Chris and I decided we would really like to sleep in our own bed that night. We were only halfway and it was already six - we had a long drive ahead of us! Just before we got to the Muncho lake lodge we gave Dani a piece of beef jerky - it stopped her squawking - at least until she bit off too big of a piece and she gagged on it! Chris caught most of the barf in the bucket - only a little bit landed on her! After that she was fine - a little pissed that I took away her jerky! We showed up in Watson Lake just before the last gas station closed. While there we made the phone calls home saying we were going to go straight through to home and would call in the morning. I drove to Swift River and then Chris drove the rest of the way - good thing too I was bagged! I was so tired that I would catch myself drifting off and would think that Chris was talking to me so I would answer with "huh" - little did I know he hadn't said a single word! Anyway we finally made it home at 1am - the kids were in bed and asleep by 1:30 and Chris and I were not far behind at 2. It was so nice to finally sleep in my own bed!
Here are some of the pictures we took while on our holiday.

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