Right after breakfast Mike called the Triple G Hideaway campground in Fort Nelson to make a reservation for tomorrow night.
We had hoped to take Tinker to a local groomer here in Dawson Creek for a bath, but when I called "4" Paws Grooming at 8:00 all I got was an answer machine and I left a message. By 10:00 we still hadn’t heard back from the groomer, so I called again and got the answer machine. Either the groomer isn't open on Monday or they don't want the business.
So Mike got in the shower and gave Tinker a bath and then we blow dried him. He was white again and smelled much better. I think he even feels better.
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Mike is my hair colorist and next on our list for today was for him to apply hair color to cover up my gray roots. After we had both had a shower, I went over to the laundry to wash the rest of our clothes.
I forgot to mention that yesterday afternoon we had driven into town to find a car & RV wash. The car & RV wash was under new ownership and was being overhauled. he only thing working today was the car wash, so we washed the Vue. We also checked out the local laundromat and was it expensive! There were no single load washers & the double washers were $5. The larger washers were $7 & $10 a load and you got 3 minutes drying time for a quarter. So even though there are only 4 washers & 4 dryers (1 dryer out of order) at the campground, it was much cheaper to do laundry here.
I washed 4 loads of clothes this morning. The washers cost $2 and take $1 coins called "loonies". The dryers take quarters and you got 12 minutes for a quarter. The one dryer that wasn’t working was being repaired this afternoon, so it seems that the owner, Vern, gets things fixed as quickly as possible.
We drove to downtown Dawson Creek to take some photos and do a little sightseeing.
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Mike set up our tripod and took our photo at the Mile '0' Post in the center of downtown Dawson Creek.
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We found these murals commemorating the building of the Alaska Highway
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and took photos of a few of the buildings downtown.
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We stopped at the Safeway here to buy some groceries. Our last stop was at Tim Horton’s for a dozen donuts - we really like their donuts!
The weather was very pleasant today. We started out in long sleeves and then later this morning it warmed up enough for short sleeves. But by the time we came back from shopping, the temp had cooled down enough for us to switch back to long sleeves.
Quite a lot of the RVs left the campground this morning, but more came in this afternoon sometimes as many as 4 and 5 at a time and now the campground is almost full again.
We didn't take any photos of the RV park until this afternoon. The roads in the campground are dirt and gravel, but each site does have some grass.
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