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We've learned alot on this trip, and I've included a few things below: These statements are stated with humor, because if you don't learn to laugh, you'll spend a lot of time crying! :)
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| Mom and Wyatt |
2) The Alaskan highway is probably not overly crowded in the summer, and in the winter you get the benefit of having the whole road to yourself! (Of course, there is the drawback of limited places that are open, and you put gas in at about every stop you come to since you don't know how far away the next stop might be.)
3) Having boys is probably easier than having girls for the sake of peeing beside the road. Although they get alot more distracted watching to see if the pee will freeze before it hits the ground!
4) When staying in hotels at night, it's a good idea to get a room on the bottom floor as close to the end of the hall as possible. Staying on any floor other than the first floor could lead to complaints from the people below as the patter of little feet is not on their list of entertainment!
5) Be sure to spend the daylight hours looking out the window and taking pictures because time is limited!
6) I am not cut out to be an over-the-road driver, and thankful that Roger drove most of the way to get us here. (However, I think he did that because he didn't want to provide the entertainment and be the steward) Just Kidding! Roger is an amazing daddy and pitched out in many, many ways to help with the kids.
7) Plastic becomes very hard and brittle in about -20 and colder and anything dropped out of the car has the possibility of shattering. (We did manage to rescue the alligator dentist game before it crashed into the ground and became smashed alligator!)
8) It may take time, but eventually your children will learn to keep track of hats and gloves, and to put them on BEFORE opening the truck door!
9) After about day five of traveling, most of the children will stop asking every hour when you're going to get there. About day seven, your children will assume that you're never going to get there and will start crying to go home. On days eight, nine, and ten, after 11-12 hour days of driving, they'll just start getting up in the morning and getting dressed to travel.
10) Dry shampoo (the kind in the aerosal can) will leak out and become a white, powdery substance that will get all over everything.
Our children have been amazing travelers, and other than a few minutes of complaining every day, they survived the trip with happy spirits.
When we were driving through the Yukon, most of the animals we spotted were at least in groups of three of more. So, when we spotted a lonely buffalo, Wyatt made the comment, "That buffalo out shopping for food 'fore the others come!" (I guess he figured since the buffalo was by himself and pawing in the snow, he was "shopping" for food!)
In Calgary, Alberta, most of the major roads are called trails, like Glenmore Trail, Deerfoot Trail, etc. When driving through there, we were looking for a specific trail. Chandler told us that these roads are not trails..trails have dirt and rocks, and these are called roads. "Whose in charge of naming these roads?"
Garett is our easy going child. You could tell him that we are going to the moon, and he would be estactic. He has spent most of his time in the back seat watching a movie, looking out the window, and wearing his coat and hat. He's the first one out of the car and can't wait to spend "a long time" outside!
Travis has been great about sitting in his car seat. It did get long for him across the Yukon and into Alaska, but he has been entertained with food and drink!
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| Garett at the hotel in Whitehorse, Yukon |
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