 good morning everybody it's the first day of the trip with the whole family we got diesel in the back we got Chevy on the floor we got Frank over there with Britt the passengers we're on our way to Alberta actually we slept in here last night and it was a lot more roomy clearly than the western star last time Britt came along that we had two small dogs and one big dog now we got two big dogs and one little dog actually isn't that claustrophobic as long as everybody's in their spot and then if you want to go to a different spot you have to switch it's like musical chairs you just hope you have a spot at the end of it around the south end of Winnipeg right now I'm gonna head west from here to be in Saskatoon tonight maybe we'll go a little further in Saskatoon but we're at least gonna stop in Saskatoon for a shower we stopped in Brandon for another coffee and a bite to eat but this is our first real pit stop here at this rest area at the border with Manitoba and Saskatchewan let them the dogs stretch their legs for a little bit here it's a beautiful day hey diesel hey buddy what you doing yeah we got a decent rest area here I mean it's still not up to par with the US rest areas but it is pretty nice for Manitoba almost all the snow is melted we're officially crossed the line into Saskatchewan Saskatchewan we're getting to Saskatchewan gotta go past Regina first that's Regina Regina they always look at me funny when I say I'm I'm in Regina I don't know why you look at your funny yeah if I take a double take that's how you pronounce it ask any Canadian so we're gonna stop we're gonna stop in Saskatoon Saskatchewan for a shower and we'll see how we feel we might go a little further than that after our shower if we have energy and feel like it if not we'll just go to bed there just wake up a little earlier tomorrow I have to be at my delivery before 2 p.m. mountain time earlier the better because then we got our reload out of uh Meadow Lakes Saskatchewan and that'll get us home Thursday night that was a quick trip it actually worked out pretty good back Thursday night uh Friday we don't have any plans yet I might see if my friend wants to get together Saturday is my birthday dinner with my father-in-law it's a joint birthday dinner yep they're two days apart in birthdays yeah two days in like 27 years we're both turning 31 somehow Sunday what's Sunday no plans yet I'd like there to be no plans no plans on Sunday and then Monday's my birthday by the time you watch this it'll probably be past my birthday my birthday's actually on April 1st it's not a joke it's not an April Fool's joke everybody always asks in labs April 1st I'm turning 31 well into my 30s now I'm married to an older man I got some gray hairs I don't because I'm married a beautiful young woman inner 20s inner 20s yeah for a few more months anyway yeah you turn uh well it's your birthday is coming up in July right big 30 is on July 25th okay I was gonna let you tell them if you want to tell I was gonna tell them never reveal a woman's age oh I don't care they're still still look pretty young so yeah it's her big 30th birthday this year I'm gonna plan something big July 25th right right I'm just kidding I know her birthday so hey maybe I should ask you guys for ideas they get me probably not because if you give me all your ideas in the comment section she's gonna see them I'm not gonna read them my promise I won't I'm not like that I'm not sneaky when I know that there's presents in my house and stuff I never look for I'm not like that I don't like ruining surprises I love surprises just a perfectly normal family rolling down the highway Frankie's just laying on the floor going I thought they needed a new family how is it there diesel how is it doing good tastes good shabby how you doing bud how you doing you already had your meal can I go in there that's Frankie's safe space from you guys your big clumsy feet full house yeah that western star was not practical at all even for one person it was too small so we're in Davidson's Saskatchewan just waiting for diesel to finish his supper here and we're gonna run in get some timmies and then head up to Saskatoon grab a shower with the Flying J and then we'll decide if we want to continue on further or if we want to spend the night there I have a feeling we'll probably just spend the night there I'll push ourselves too too far too hard but uh it's not as cramped as you might think it would be I mean it's it's cozy and everyone sort of got their their own space come on chef come on up here come on we'll definitely have to do a little bit of cleaning tomorrow before the hair gets out of control right now it's fine but a little messier than I would like it but is what it is we get to go home to a nice clean house so it's okay and diesel is just the slowest eater on the face of the planet he's got a process he needs to arrange it properly and he takes kibbles out of his bowl and leaves them in specific spots nobody can disturb that he's a creature of habit he's a crazy dog but uh we just have the kennel in here just for Frankie just for when we leave the truck that uh we can put him safely in here otherwise the big guys might step on him and with his back surgery and everything we didn't want to risk that so just when we're out of the truck and it's his safe spot so he feels safe in there and in an unfamiliar environment where everything's shaking rattling and lots of noise all the time it's his little getaway you done diesel you done all right I guess it's time for us to go in and get some timmies then getting kind of tired I'm I think I'm ready to go to bed in Saskatoon I'm just getting bored nighttime driving not a fan uh-oh she's getting bored no I like the daytime stuff yeah you're just not a nighttime fan at all as soon as the sun goes down you're like ah this this isn't even at home I fade quick I'm I'm more of a daytime girl and I'm a night owl anyways let's go get our timmies I need a coffee well we got our timmies so at least we got that that place was gross yeah that was disgusting every garbage can in the place was overflowing and just surrounded by garbage even in the bath women's bathroom she said oh it was everything was broken the lock on the door instead of being an actual sliding lock it was a riveted screw that you can cut yourself on uh and then they had a garbage can for people to use on the counter where they serve you there's the only empty one in or half empty one in the place and it also took him well 10 minutes just to make a coffee and he got it wrong one employee could barely speak english he was so hard to understand yeah I couldn't understand him oh my gosh I felt bad for him to be honest he needed another person in there someone who could speak a little bit more fluently yeah and uh just to help him yeah someone he needs help to take out the garbages to clean the place all the counters were filthy as a former tim Wharton's employee I was completely disgusted yeah I would have gone in there and ripped my co-workers a new one I would have been fired if I'd walked in there or they would have been fired or they would have been yeah I wouldn't it should have been the yeah should be them getting fired but yeah I think the main cause this guy he needed help there's one guy he had to do the drive-through the counter and make all the sandwiches the food the coffees everything poor guy everything and he couldn't even speak the language to communicate with the customers he must have just been lost oh she must have been yeah he must be having one heck of a bad night I hope it's not like that for him all the time yikes anyways feel bad for the guy and at the same time I feel bad for us because you know we got the bad service but it wasn't really his fault completely so he's having a rough night should turn at least I got my coffee that's why I said at least I got my coffee right and he's gonna have his check at the end of the day so at the end of the day we both win there we go okay let's let's get going here all right you ready a little bit further to go good to go or about I think an hour and a little bit from Saskatoon I'm hoping we're gonna find a parking spot at that flying jay if not we can always go to the petro pass and grab a shower there it's not usually as many people park there but I would rather stop at the flying jay gotta go there for fuel anyway all right guys we're just playing musical chairs here and you guys just stay there Chevy you stay there we just got the mattress down from there setting it up down here for Brit it's pretty cozy Josh was right you like it yeah I wish I'd brought my third pillow along but some people think that that's excessive and they're probably right but it's the way I like to sleep three pillows so we'll move the rest of this a lot of this is her bedding and my bedding there and the rest of this goes onto the floor can you reach my quilt I'm a little short I could there's a big one here it's not big it's pretty small actually I think it's only a double quilt and then I'll sleep up there she can sleep down there diesel slept on the bed with Brit yesterday he is an excellent cuddler he doesn't get too close stays off to the side but he's there if I want to give him a kiss or a pat and then Frank sleeps in his house just said he's safe well he sleeps with either Brit or in his house just that he's safe for the night and Chevy gets the whole floor to himself gets to stretch on out and he has so much fur that he never gets cold yeah in fact we invite him to sleep on the bed at home with us he always jumps off like 10 15 minutes later he's he's off because he gets too hot he's got too much fuzz buddy you tired now we can see you so day number one was a success we didn't kill each other and we made it to where we wanted to it was actually really fun it's it you think that it would be packed I explained this a little bit before there's a lot more space in here than it seemed and as long as you know you have well trained dogs like we do and everybody sort of waits their turn it's a little cramped and you know you got to stop like we did earlier and let them run around and get their hearts pumping but uh it's fun for us yeah oh we will well i gotta stop by the gym on the way back might just go to the one in steinback or maybe we'll stop at the one here in saskatoon on the way back we have a lumber load that's waiting for us in meadow lakes a sketch one it's gonna take us right through saskatoon again so we might be able to stop in at the gym on the way home if not i will make sure to go every day while i'm at home and i'll hit the treadmill hard while i'm at home all right just need my pillows and then i can get the heck out of your way and start brushing my teeth is your pillow is it a pair oh no that's not the good one there's another one up there the 50 pound pillow oops holding the camera and climbing up here not a good idea this one thank you yeah and the key is organizing make sure you keep everything organized up there we are not very good at it well i think everything's very well organized that's what i was saying maybe you didn't see my cubby well the cubbies need to be organized but i mean up here i had everything organized with our my bedding is there her bedding is there and then our two clothing bags are in the center where you can reach them easily that's true and then the bed on the back on the top and then everything covered by this seat belt okay so now we're gonna get diesel to come lay on the bed i'm gonna go there to brush my teeth little guy can come lay on the bed for a while careful for a while okay diesel come on diesel on the bed bud there you go good can you stay here for a bit chev okay good boy i'll brush your teeth too just kidding anyways thanks for tagging along with us today on this crazy adventure hope to see you tomorrow don't forget to subscribe and hit the like button tomorrow we're gonna deliver this load and pick up a new one so a little bit more stuff going on