Butterflies!

Have a question for you..Who wins when dragonflies and butterflies battle? Our JEEPS grill. That's who. Butterflies and dragonflies! Everywhere. We feel pretty bad about it...didn't even realize it was happening until we got out of the car and looked at the front of the vehicle. :(. Poor guys!
We are going to smoosh the last two days together because honestly, they were pretty much running into each other. It was still light out at 1115 pm last night and we can't tell you when it was fully light again because we slept a bit before we got up and it was light again. For my photographer friends it was like having the evening "golden hour" for about 5 hours. It was AMAZING!!!
We did a little car maintenence today. We got an oil change and tires rotated as well as went to aa place called Tim Hortons. We had not a clue what this place was and the locals looked at us like we had 40 eyes when we asked what it was.. Well its like an American Dunkin Donunts. YAY!!! Really and we were just now stopping? Our home in Evans was determined by that Dunkin Donuts location...no really..Dave said we have to live within a 5 mile radius. The mechanic who gave us the oil change in Dawsons Creek(the town we were in Mile 0 on the Alaskian Highway) said that they probably are putting nicotine in the coffee and donuts because everyone always has a Tim Hortons cup in their hand and its so true. The people in Canada are so pleasant. Everyone we have talked to treats you like family. We feel like we are in our own small hometown. Its really comforting being this far away from home.

The road has been long..and then rocky, steep, potholish. We've been driving and laughing because it really is crazy that we are on this road in the middle of nowhere, so far from civilization. It has been pretty hairy, but exciting all at the same time. George the monkey likes it, but then again he is pretty curious!
We recently listened to a book on tape called "Into the wild" about a boy who took off after college to Alaska and wanted to live off the land. It goes into how he went into the Alaska wild and lived off of berries and what he found and hunted. I won't tell you how the story ends but I will tell you that it is a dramatic story. We say this as we are about to embark on one of the longest legs of this journey without gas stations close together. Today there is a chance that we might have to take the scoot out drive for gas and bring it back to the car. We are excited to see what will happen. We just made it into town last night. It was really amazing! Hills pushed us up and down so we didn't have to use as much as normal. Praise God and all his provisions!
On that note, the last 3 nights we have received the very LAST room available everywhere we stay. The first of these nights we procured a spiderman room that had been cancelled. The second night the front desk clerk just received a cancellation call as we walked up. The third night we called in just in time. Last room. All sold out. The hotels here in Canada mostly, from what we have seen, have this fascination with water parks inside them. It is quite nifty. I honestly could see us vacationing here.
We are now on California time and last night were able to skype with our kiddos! Just happened that Grandma and I were both checking our Gmail and that was a good thing because we have no phone signal out this way. We apologize if anyone has been calling or texting. We will be out of cell phone range for at least the next 4 days :( or so we have been told.
We have been reading a devotional called Jesus lives seeing his love in your life by Sarah Young that a wonderful friend gifted to me before we left. I have to say that it is a great devotional if you are looking for one.
This trip has been very blessed and we are excited to see what else is to come! Have a fantastic day everyone and we will update as soon as we can! :) Love and miss you all!
Dave and Lana