It's 1:45am and we get "knocked up" as Terry calls it LOL
rap rap rap "Prince Rupert in 45 minutes!!"
we drag ourselves out of bed I feel like I just went to sleep!!!
It's lightly raining and really dark so we've all decided to go to Tim Horton's to wait for daylight. Someone said they are open 24hrs. Immediately as we get off the boat there is a border crossing. The attendant asks if we have any fruit that we purchased in Alaska and why yes we do we have 2 apples. "Well as long as you don't dispose of the cores on Canadian soil I'll let you keep them" trusting soul!
We finally find Tim Horton's and it's not due to open until 4am?? There are some teenagers standing out front and they tell us that Maccas is open 24hrs so we ride over there only to find out that it's only the drive-thru of course!!! so we go back to Tim's and decide to wait, in the meantime more bikers pull in but not any of our friends. We chat to them and soon 4am comes around. We get coffee/hot choclate and a muffin and sit talking to the three guys from Idaho.
Soon it's light but overcast not really raining so we leave and head for our first stop Terrace. When we arrive there Rick and Paula are doing their laundry (their whole trailer had been full of washing ha ha) then we continue on to the Junction of the Stewart Cassiar Hwy and Yellowhead Hwy (which we are following) just before we get to the petrol station there we see Wolfgang & Michaela and Carol & Harry pulled over to the side of the road together. We decide to have second breakfast eggs, bacon and country fried taties yum! and of course toast. Our next stop is in Smithers Harry & Carol's hometown. It's mainly a loo break and stretch stop but there just so happens to be Farmer's Market near the Visitor's centre. We go over and have a look there are some cyclists there that are escorting a totem pole to the Children's Hospital in Edmonton and raising money along the way. Of course I find some earrings they are tiny electroplated pine cones and then covered in burnished copper, very pretty.
Our next stop Houston we skip and decide to push on to Burns Lake, we fill up with petrol at Decker Lake and ask the woman behind the counter for a recommendation for lunch and she suggests Spirit Square and the burgers at the Spirit Bus so off we go to find it. It's National Aboriginal Day and there is a lot going on in Spirit Sq, dancing competitions, all the first Nation people are represented and we feel a little out of place. The bus is amazing and Terry the owner comes out with hats and offers to take our photo. Then he hands me a sharpie and says sign the bus you are the second Aussies to do so.. The burgers are good and we are soon back on the road. David is so tired and so am I although I have been dozing on and off all day.
Fraser Lake is a welcome sight and we are soon in our bed and napping. We walk down the road for dinner which is Chinese beef chop suey and chicken chow mein (different to ours but tasty).
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