We crossed the border into Canada last evening and spent the night along the road somewhere in Saskatchewan.
The Border crossing went fine except for Jasmine screaming and crying through the whole thing. Gabe was loud and rambunctious from being in the motor home so long. I think the officials felt sorry for us.
Our rig checked out fine, and the officer didn’t take long at all to inspect our motorhome and trailer. Whether that was because we had all our paperwork in order, or because the whole place reeked of puppy poop, we are still undecided.
Moral among the crew was rather low last night, and was made worse by the puppies howling so loudly beside our bed that we couldn’t sleep.
Andy let them out of their cage in the night and let them roam free in the motorhome. This would have been great idea if it had worked to make them quiet, but it was a fail as far as that went and we were up by 3 am.
Again.
Thankfully we only had about seven piles of puppy poop to clean up in the morning, as well as dog hair.
We kicked the puppies out.
I’m not sure why we never thought of this before, but the trailer has a vent for air circulation, and we have a temperature probe we can put back there to make sure it doesn’t get too hot for them.
What bliss! What sweet peace and quietness! It is now a cinch to walk back to the bedroom or bathroom where before it took some pretty major contortions to squeeze past the puppy crate.
We feel dizzy and bleary eyed, and are hoping for a good night of sleep tonight, but on the up side, at least we learned something from the experience. We now know that if we ever want to go insane, all we have to do is take two small children and five puppies on a two week trip in a motorhome!
We drove a couple of hours this morning, but since it is Sunday we didn’t want to try to make many miles. We found a beautiful place to park named Last Mountain Lake and spent a few hours there walking along the beach, letting the puppies and Gabe run in the grass, and taking some much needed naps.
The scenery isn’t anything to write home about. Trains, grains bins, oil wells, trains, grain bins, oil wells. Canada is pretty boring so far.
We hope to make a lot of miles tomorrow, but for now it is good to have a day of rest.
