We slept in a bit since we knew we would have a light day of riding today. Just as we were waking up, we heard a diesel truck pull into the rest area. When we looked outside, it was the guys coming to cut the grass/ weed whack. So we got our tent put away as quickly as we could so we wouldn't be in their way. We made a little oatmeal for breakfast and then headed towards Prince George! The ride was a little hilly in the beginning but seemed to flatten out a bit as we got closer to PG. Another sunny beautiful day (and the wind was with us again!). It didn't take us too long to get to PG and we were glad that we waited so we would have a relaxing day today. We didn't see any wildlife today, but I did forget to mention that yesterday we saw a wolf or coyote (not positive which it was). Once we got within 2-3 miles from our destination, we came around a bend and there it was- a city in the middle of the woods (or at least that's what it looked like from where we were). Luckily the traffic didn't really pick up as one would expect when going into a city. It was very enjoyable. We crossed the Fraser River again as we approached PG. Since we had a WS host set up we decided to find McDonald's so we could look up his address. This was the first McDonald's that we had seen in over 700 miles (Missoula, MT). Joey got a soda while I got onto the internet. It turns out that the McDonald's that we were at was only about 2 blocks from our host's house, I don't know how we got so lucky! Since we would be getting there in the afternoon before our host was home from work, he emailed us the info needed to get into his home. We hopped back on our bikes and in about 2 minutes were at our host's house. It was nice to know that we were definitely at the right house because there was a black dog (Maple) and a yellow dog (Donna) barking at us through the window. They also had 4 kitties, one of which was a tortis-shell just like Munchkin was! That made me a little sad because it made me miss her, but I was super happy that there were kitties to play with! It was really nice to be able to go inside and get settled even though our host wasn't there yet. We found "our area" downstairs and it is like a separate guest space with a couch/living room area, extra bedroom and a bathroom close by. It is wonderful! I took a nice hot shower and then did some laundry, which we desperately needed. Afterwards we walked to the grocery store, which was pretty close. Our plan was to go to a buffet for our "anniversary lunch" from Grammy, but we were too excited that we were in PG to realize that it was Friday and there wouldn't be any more lunch buffet's until Monday (unless we went to a Chinese Buffet). We were a little frustrated that we weren't thinking ahead very well, but figured we would figure something out. Since we have been wanting ice cream (and it is EXTREMELY expensive at the small grocery stores in the towns we have seen so far in CA--double the price of it at home) we got some of that, more cookies, pancake mix and syrup for breakfast, pork chops and corn to go with the 2 potatoes we had left from Missoula, and a couple frozen pizza's for lunch. Once we got back to the house, we put our pizza in the oven since we were pretty hungry. A few minutes later, David (our host) got home! While we enjoyed our pizza we talked with him for a while. It turns out that he is a music teacher at a french immersion school, so we got to hear a little about how that that worked. In Canada, they also have a thing called a differed salary that enables them to take a year off. David explained that he has been doing that and that this year he will be taking a long bike tour and then going with his wife, Megumi to visit Japan later on in the year. It is so neat that they can do that here in CA; I'm pretty sure we can't do that in the US and it's too bad! A little while later, Megumi got home from work and then right after they were on the way to a work party. They both had told us about the show "Breaking Bad" and how good it was. They have a really nice large screen TV and Netflix, so we decided that we would watch the first episode to see what it was like. It is about a Chemistry teacher that gets involved with cooking Crystal Meth after he finds out he is dying from lung cancer. Somehow, we got hooked on the show and ended up watching a total of 7 episodes by the end of the night! Somewhere in the middle of that, we made our pork chops, corn and potatoes for dinner and snacked on some more ice cream. We were still watching the show when David and Megumi got back home. I couldn't believe how much TV we watched, but I guess it's acceptable since we hadn't watched TV since we were in MT. What a fantastic, relaxing day we had! We only rode 23.30 miles today.
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