Left Vita Monday morning after having breakfast at the “hotel” = I put hotel in quotes because it’s not what you and I would normally consider to be a “hotel” = maybe 10 rooms and most of the rooms are already rented out permanently!  But the food and the company were good!  With the Canadian exhchange it worked out to costing $20 for 2 for breakfast!!!

From there only one minor detour when I thought the road going east should have been straight and it wasn’t exactly what I remembered from going there on Friday…..

Traveled Monday and got as far into the Wisconsin border to stay the nite at a rest area - We– didn’t feel like we were making very good time but a lot of the roads were slick and we didn’t average much over 50mph.

Traveled Tuesday on better roads (except for the highway for the first 100 miles in the UP and up to Marquette which was like a washboard!!!) and got to Newberry and stopped at our favorite grocery store and got some necessaries like milk and bread- went the next ½ hour to get out to the place we planned to park for the nite = Randy ended up walking back the mile to the handlers quarters we have been staying at and got the snow plow truck and plowed the parking lot we had been parking the trailer at before we left for the race – not too much new snow in the past week but it did need plowing – because he didn’t want to try and back in when it was dark, we went farther down the road and parked to drop dogs at Muskellonge Lake State park (where the Tahquamenon race start was) – it was plowed but very windy being right on Lake Superior so we decided to drive back to the snowmobile trail head about 5 miles back and there we spent a calm nite – must have been pretty tired because I fell asleep on the couch for 2 hours and then went to bed and slept for 11 hours!!!!

Got up Wednesday morning and fed the dogs breakfast and drove over to our plowed “parking spot” – at this point I still thought we were going live in the trailer for the next week until we left for Quebec because Randy had already drained all the pipes in the cottage – but the more we thought about having to use gas in the generator at about $30 a day and wanting to put the dogs back in their circles so they could exercise whenever they wanted to, we decided to turn the water back on and therefore I had to move things back into the handlers quarters – when I had just moved everthing into the trailer………….such is life………….the really big deciding factor for me was being able to take a shower!!!!!  It was wonderful after a week!!!! 

We trained the dogs by leaving from the trailer across the street and when we returned from the run of 10 miles we just ran the dogs back across the to the kennel and then hooked them up there – 8 in the first team and then 7 – they seemed really happy to be back at their “homes”!

Got all that done and moving stuff back into the quarters in time to get ready to go to Ray and Patti’s for dinner with Jan Shaw and the Waltman’s = when Ray had stopped by while we were hooking up the dogs to train he said we were having dinner at their house and we were going to have pike Randy was a little hesitant but it turned out to be some of the best fish we have ever eaten!!!!!!!  Great supper with good friends!!!!

Don’t know what tomorrow will bring – we were thinking that we would have to be traveling to Sault Ste. Marie to have the generator that runs out trailer repaired but Randy seems to have fixed it as it worked fine after we took it out of its place in the trailer, brought it here to the garage and he replaced the oil – will see if it is still working tomorrow – can’t travel in the trailer without heat and electricity!!!!!!!