For the life of me, I can’t get this photo to move to the bottom of the post. So here it is–A photo of Jared and me, undisturbed by clinging children: So, we really did it! We took a 3 day weekend! We arranged for our employee, Bev, to watch our store on Friday (her typical day off), and arranged for another friend to watch our store on Saturday, and we were OFF!! We spent the night in Whitehorse at a beautiful new Bed and...

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We went up to “the Yukon” last month for a one-day getaway to go grocery shopping, etc. Whitehorse (about 2 hours away) has a Walmart, The Real Canadian Superstore (the best!) and a great indoor swimming pool with a slide. The drive up was fantastic…we lucked out with such great weather!P.S. Yukoners do not like it when you call it “The Yukon.” They would say, “I live in Yukon”…not...

Long story short, it was a long 4 day drive south, a little longer than usual, because we made a detour to Jasper or Banff in Alberta Canada. Gas is a killer! Below is a quick map of our route this time (green line). And here are some gas prices we encountered along the way: Ella was VERY excited to leave, because we told her we were first going to Grandma’s house, and then on to Nana & Papa’s house. The whole first day...