Duhu Lake to Bear Lake/Crooked River Provincial Park, B.C. (Day 8)

We had a rough night at Duhu Lake. We woke up to a sick Lucas when it was still mostly dark out, and we still far enough North that being dark out meant it was in the wee hours of the morning.  When we woke up again for the day, all the blood have gone from Lucas' face and he did not feel any better.  He went outside and laid on a picnic table bench and threw up until there wasn't anything left, then fell promptly back to sleep.  We put him back in the van after we packed up camp and decided it would just be a day of driving.  After a few miles and  not enough coffee, Lucas' tummy was painful and he was very vocal about it.  We felt bad for the poor little guy and shamelessly turned on Monsters Inc., Avengers, and another half of Avengers in quick succession on the laptop.  With headphones of course.  Magically, the tummy bug disappeared over the course of the day ("Must've been the movies mom, see?  They make me better!"), as we pushed the fluids and Lucas was zoned out enough to pass for asleep.    

This was one of our very few stops this day.  The sun peeked out from behind the fog and we stretched out and threw the frisbee for a while.

We made it to Dawson Creek, the official beginning of the Alaska Highway, and took time to putz around town for a bit and see the sights

The Fam at mile 0

Even sicky got excited!

 Next we stopped in Chetwynd, where I went gaga over the chain saw sculptures!  Look at these things!  They are incredible!  Unfortunately the contest had been the weekend prior, we would have all loved to watch that!  Maybe next year!!!

We looked through The Milepost an stopped at a few campsites on the way, finally deciding to stay at Crooked Creek/Bear Lake for the evening.  This place was CLEAN!  And the showers were free and hot!! This was such a welcome after... um... let's not actually announce the number of days since the last shower at this spot, mmkay? :)

Lucas threw the frisbee around some more, and I did a few days worth of dishes since we had running water. 

Lucas was starting to get good the the camera!  The picture is almost level! ;)

We met a SUPER awesome lady named Marita (from Grand Prairie) while I was washing dishes, and she invited us to hang out.  Apparently we are too much of party animals though, because they went to bed by the time we were ready to walk over there and hang out.  (Hey, we hadn't been on any sort of schedule in... 1, 2, 3, 4... 11 days!!)  So we busted out the cameras and each tried to take pictures of the moon while we hung out around a very peaceful fire with delicious vodka cran's (with ICE in them) :)