Catch Up Day.

June 6, 2019

This campground has wonderful showers!!! A toonie gets you a hot shower for seven minutes!!  It really is the small things in life that you love and appreciate. 

We had acquired a good load of laundry so while Debbie did the laundry I moved our camp to another site for a longer stay.  Mosquitoes were becoming more prevalent as we travelled so we erected our net tent over the table for the first time.  This tent had been a source of argument with us prior to leaving Nanaimo.  Debbie convinced me that we needed one and I had reluctantly agreed to the purchase.  Today I had to admit that she was RIGHT !!! My Brother John gave us a ZapLight for bugs. It provides a great reading light but also has a blue light that attracts bugs and they fly into the coils and get zapped and die. It works great.             

We noticed in our travels that the reservation system in the Provincial and National Campgrounds could be quite a chore in terms of acquiring campsites, even at this time of year.  We were able to get a campsite here however, would not be able to secure a campsite in Jasper until Sunday, June 9^th. This was unexpected as we did not want to set dates for our destinations throughout the trip.  We reluctantly spent some time later in the day at the visitor centre, a wifi hot spot, to obtain campsites in Jasper, Cold Lake and Waskesui Saskatchewan, our future destinations.  

We had to buy some groceries, beer and miscellaneous articles, (I had forgotten to pack an electrical extension cord).  Debbie was able to find another quilt shop, 21 Stitches, and she had to visit it.  It had just opened and today was the second day of operation.  The owner, Natasha, named it after the year of her age that she had started quilting.

The weatherman had promised rain and it started in the late afternoon.  The temperature dropped to 4 degrees by 6:00 pm and although Debbie braved the cold until 8:30, I wimped out and came inside to the warmth of the trailer and curled up in the bed.