Day 47- Whitehorse

 July 28

I feel kind bad when we don't fill our day's with activity's.  We seem to stay up late and myself even later writing and uploading pictures for the blog.  

We were out of bed around 10. I had booked a glass blowing class for late afternoon so I wasn't sure what to do to fill the time.  Unfortunately a lot of stuff is closed Sunday and Monday in Whitehorse.  I really wanted to go to the Beringa Interpretive Center.  

While Davan took her shower I started researching things to do to displace the time we were going to be in Jasper.  About 30% of the town along with the forest has burned.  I was told Stewart, BC was a good place to go.  I intended it to be a side quest but it's about an hour off our route, plus there is a cool Glacier another 30 minutes away.  I decided it really needed its own day so I reduced our stay in Whitehorse a day so we are leaving tomorrow.  I also decided to add another day in Banff.  

Due to these changes I need to rearrange all my upcoming reservations.  By the time I got all of that done it was about 2 pm.  

Our first stop was the Yukon Visitors Center to get our final Yukon sticker for the camper.  Yukon does a great job with their visitors center.  It's not just a boring building with brochures.  They each have a unique display to check out.  The people working there are incredibly knowledgable and they have printed sheets for whatever route you're taking with waypoints of points of interest.  We have utilized suggestions from nearly every center.  So they were worth our time stopping.

After the visitors center I needed to stop at a grocery store to stock up on a Canadian roasted coffee that I really liked.  Atlin Mountain Coffee

We were about 40 minutes early for our appointment so we just sat in the parking lot.  I rested while the girls played on their phone.  

By suggestion from a friend I booked a glass blowing class at Lumel Studio's.  Each of us was able to pick a design and colors and with assistance make our own glass sculpture.  

Davan and I make a flower, Libby a bowl and Summer a duck.  The girls had a ton of fun.  We get to pick them up in the morning as they need to cool slowly.  

Since we had nothing else going on we stopped at a near by park.  On the way home we got some groceries.  

Once back at the camper we made dinner, burgers, and then just hung out.