July 11th to 13th - Terrace/Prince Rupert

July 11th - Wed - Terrace
YES!! We drove out of the rain and into some very warm weather. The roads were good, clear blue sky - lovely drive. Part way here we were stopped for about 20 minutes at a road construction site and I went into the 5th wheel to change into a T-shirt. I discovered that a couple of items had fallen out of the pantry and we had sticky Margarita mix all over the floor. A quick clean up just left a tacky mess to clean up when we got set up.
Larry & Barb caught up to us. Luckily, since we did not have cell phone service, we both had wi-fi at our site last night and we were able to “converse” and figure out if and where we could get back together. Did a bit of misc & grocery shopping and enjoyed the sunshine and a nice steak dinner.

July 12th - Thurs - to Prince Rupert
Another lovely day for the short drive to Prince Rupert. Time enough for a hair cut for me before we left Terrace. We were going to stay at a PA park in Port Edward but the sites were small and hard to get into so we carried on to PR. They have an interesting way of locating people who are camping together. They have long sites that accommodate 2 rigs backed in from each end. We pulled through the site and out the other side and then Larry pulled in and parked his 5th wheel “backwards”, unhooked and moved his truck. Then we backed in right up to his rig. This puts our doors on the same side which is nice when you are together.
Our barbeque quit working last night and we determined that the hose was the problem so Terry and I went out to get a new one. We managed to explore quite a bit of the town before we found a hose. Had a nice dinner and sat around a fire.

July 13th - Fri - Prince Rupert
We were sightseeing, shopping tourists today. There is a section of PR called Cow Bay which has some great shops and the Museum of Northern BC is located there as well. In Cow Bay, of course the emphasis is on “cow” names (Cowpuccino coffee house) and cow (Holstein) paint jobs. Had lunch, picked up some groceries and tried to find some fresh crab. Larry got the last 1 ½ lbs that were cooked at a place that offered live Dungeness crab at $6.00/lb. A guy at Safeway told us that we probably could get some crab at the docks so we checked it out. They had a boat coming in in a couple of hours so Terry went back and got 6 broken/incomplete crabs for free! We set up our camp stove outside and cooked and cleaned them. Great dinner!