Day 5 (Aug. 5, 2009)

Woke up around 8:30 AM. It was the 1st time we've woken up

and it wasn't practically freezing. Packed up the Jeep pretty quick.

A few miles down the road there was nice Fas Gas w/convenience

store where we got gas and Cecil bought me some fruit gummy snacks.

Made it to Grand Prairie, which is where we'll turn on Hwy. 40 to Jasper.

Stopped at a Starbucks for coffee, wifi and charge camera batteries.

Fields of yellow roses as you enter into Grand Prairie.

Grand Prairie was pleasant town. Probably the size of two Wasillas.

The town was compact with many new stores.

Entering from the Dawson Creek Hwy. we were met w/ many

large field plots of yellow roses.

I would imagine agriculture is their main industry.

In my opinion, this would be an ideal place to live.

Ate a bite of lunch outside Grand Prairie at O'Brien Provincial Park.

Decent, shady. Drove through the pretty farming communities of

Hythe and others...to Grand Cache.

This was a fairly large community, lots of houses.

We stopped at the visitors center where there was wifi.

Reminded me of Aspen, Colorado.

Drove around the community looking for town center,

but ended up at a large prison.

We decided to move on down the road.

Annes picture of this 9-point Muledeer.

Headed from Grand Cache onto Hinton/Jasper KOA.

On the way we saw a really nice 9 point Mule deer.

Anne took an awesome photo of it.

Cecil took a video too of it hopping.

We arrived to the campground at 8 PM, took showers immediately.

Showers have been awhile since Kluane Lake.

Still had the sulphur of Liard on us also.

Somehow we didn't smell, I don't think.

We're able to do some laundry and cook dinner.

Chicken noodle soup with rice and peanut butter/honey bread.

Found out there was real bad accident on the road to Jasper.

The road was closed about 12 hours.

-Cecil and Anne