Friday, May 3, 2013

We have been sitting in Whitehorse since Sunday waiting for the roads to open, the snow to melt and the weather to warm up.  However, that wasn't happening fast enough for Saralee, so she flew from Dawson to Whitehorse the one new driver, Kevin, so he and Gordon could take their training here where the buses could be reached.

Kevin pulled his trailer to Dawson and the RV park had to bulldoze a spot for him to park.  It isn't the permanent spot for him, they couldn't get to that site.

However, it is +5 C here this morning with only a 28 km/h wind.  What a balmy day.  The driver training began yesterday and will continue until at least Sunday.  Kevin will go to Dawson City with Gordon as I am leaving Whitehorse with Saralee and Janet, the Guest Services Manager, this morning.  It has been so cold we haven't wanted to do much touring.  Walked to WalMart which is about 1.5 km on Wednesday.  It was windy and snowing a bit.  However, coming home we were walking into the wind and it was snowing hard.  We got as far as Superstore and decided to get some change and catch a bus.  The lady at Customer Service said we should take a taxi because we could wait forever for a bus.  We waited 20 minutes for a cab and then decided we could have been home so struck out and walked.  It was a bit chilly by the time we arrived at the hotel.

The company is picking up part of our food bill.  We went to the restaurant and was pleasantly surprised to find their share was 75%.  As of May 1st company is picking up 100%.  Yesterday while Gord was on his lunch break we went into the restaurant and shared an order of chicken fingers.  Six big pieces with lots of fries.  The waitress brought it to us on two plates as we had said we were going to share.  Then last night we stopped in for dessert only.  We waited and waited and waited and finally it arrived.  Then the manager came by and said that because we had to wait so long it would be on the house.  She just laughed when we told her who we were working for.  She responded, "we will treat you just like any other of our hotel guests."  Food is good, but I'm tired of restaurant food!

Must sign off for now as we will be leaving in an hour.