Back to Canada eh?

Saturday 14th June

A big day ahead and we had asked to have breakfast at 7am but somehow it ended up being 8am before we ate!!  We did, however, have a nice chat to some of the other guests one family that we think might have been the herd of elephants from last night.  The hostess Carol used to be a home science teacher and had to explain everysingle morsel of breakfast including the juice before we ate ha ha it was all very delicious even had reindeer sausage, homemade sourdough waffles with an assortment of syrups including maple and birch (very different).  Then she told us the story of the grizzly bear pelt on the wall.  Her Father shot it in 1947 when he was out hunting moose.  He had seen a moose the day before and had gone to shoot it when the bear charged him from behind he turned and as he went to fire on the bear tripped, the first shot went awry and his second shot he got off very quickly thank goodness got the bear just above the left eye you can see the stitch where the taxidermist fixed the wound.

turns out the bear had killed the moose already and hidden his prey and was protecting his stash.

It was raining pretty much all day today but we did OK.  It was a long ride 480 miles and a lot of the road was very rough with many gravel patches.  We are very glad of the new tyres as tomorrow morning we have to brave the frost heaves again!!

We have lunch a small restaurant and talk to another couple riding on one bike from South Carolina a lovely young couple.  We had tomato soup and sourdough toast it was superb!!

Going through the border crossing is a bit of a giggle the border guard asks "Where do you live?" Australia, "Where are you staying tonight?" Buckshot Betty's "I'm from Vancouver eh? and that is a great place to stay" ha ha Oh Canada how we love you!!! so cute!

So it's back to loonies, twonies, coloured money and kilometres at least for one night.

We arrive at Buckshot Betty's and Carmen has indeed installed two more cabins she is a hard worker!  We head straight up for dinner and we both have the pork cutlets which turns out to be pork schnitzel which I'm actually happy about (didn't need to fight with bones) it comes with mashed potato (which is just potato hallelujah!) asparagus and bernaise and veges it was delicious and just what we needed!

Skyped Jenny tonight and she tells us that she has made it to the karaoke finals so proud of her!!!!