Prins family adventures

Monday morning July 9 we were up at 8.30 and managed to get into the ferry lineup by 10:30. We had planned to see and do a lot more in Dawson city like the midnight dome, dredge tours and the paddlewheel graveyard but with the kids both getting sick Saturday and Joshua getting hurt Sunday we couldn't, So I went to the hardware store for a few tools to try and do a wheel alignment since I was still having issues with that but they didn't have what I needed. I bought a couple things to try and make do with but they weren't what I wanted and very expensive. $3 in the usa = $5in Edmonton = $15 in Dawson city... We didn't get out of town until after noon and had to make it 530km to our next campsite in Whitehorse while sightseeing along the way. I started looking for paved pullouts to check my wheel alignment but after quite a while realized that there was no such thing so changed my camber and toe settings in the dirt with a tape measure and 2 shelving brackets...

On Sunday July 8 we went to the E-free church in town but we were almost late because the ferry took 45 minutes. I don't know how the people who live here deal with it, I am not patient enough. After church we found that an rv park had gotten some ice so that was a relief that all our food wasn't going to go bad after all.  There was going to be a long ferry wait to get back to our campsite for lunch so Julie and the kids went on foot across the ferry and walked to the campsite while i waited around an hour to get on. They had started lunch by the time I got there with the car and I joined them. The kids were bored waiting for their second serving of lunch and Joshua ran down the steep hill from the picnic table to the trailer and couldn't slow himself down. Just as he got to the trailer he was moving faster than he could make his legs go and he went headlong into the side of our trailer, hitting his head on a piece of angle iron. He split his forehead wide open an

Saterday July 7  We got up at 9:30 because of how late it had gotten last night.  After breakfast, we headed back to Dawson City and had a half hour wait for the ferry. The town was really packed with people in for the gold panning competition which is an international event. We went to the museum first and looked in their train shed. There are three large engines there built for the mining tracks, and they were not even used for all that long.   We left that museum before we were finished and headed to Front Street, so I could sign up for the gold panning competition they were having and then we came back. This is a pretty great museum, the free short tours they have are really worth it, and they have one of their display rooms open, with the shelves under glass, so that you can see things that aren't on display currently. They had everything from ww1 guns to mammoth tusks to locomotives.    We went to the gold panning competition and watched the first heat of the event I