Washington cont.,

Wednesday 1st May
The delivery was done and dusted by 7am.  We already had a reload back to Calgary (we were lucky it was such a quick turnaround) we had to go back the way we came stopping at Quincey for a load of frozen vegetables.  At 9am we were travelling back through the Wenatchee Mountains, what a difference the sun makes, the reflections on the lake were mesmerizing.  We waited all afternoon for the trailer to be loaded.  By the time this happened dave was running out of hours so we stayed the night at Ernies truck stop in Moses Lake.
Thursday 2nd May
On our way this morning message came through for us to change trailers (with an empty) at Cranbrook, and go back and reload with onions at Warner.  Dave was not happy about this as there`s not alot of mileage in this particular run anyway and we were doing it twice!  He expressed his views to despatch and we were promised a good job next week.
We saw a couple of dead deer by the roadside, it is so sad. But then a red squirrel ran infront of us ah cute.
Friday 3rd May
The load of onions was`nt going to be ready until 12noon so we had a slow run down stopping a few ties to take maddy for a walk in the sunshine.  We were`nt due back to Calgary until saturday so we ad plenty of time.  I did`nt need to look at the map anymore as i knew all the lakes and towns off by heart (and the truck stops!)
Saturday 4th May
This morning after going through customs (again!) we stopped at Moyie Lake.  We took maddies photo for facebook, she had a great time sniffing in the long grass, their was a deer path along the side of the lake.
Driving back over the Rockies was lovely, the sun was out and the roads quiet  In the Rockies the railway mostly follows alongside the road, sometimes dissapearing into a tunnel in a mountain.  They have around a hundred open carriages, we`ve seem them filled with grain or coal dust.  To pull these there would be three or four locomotives, usually three at the front and one in the middle.      
At Crowsnest Pass we saw some wild goats having a drink from a puddle at the side of the road.
We passed through a small mining town called Frank. Either side of the highway were massive boulders, this was due to a large section of limestone rock breaking away from Mount Turtle in 1903, this area was now known as Frank Slide. A portion of the sleeping community below was crushed, the size of the rock which fell was 500 ft deep, 1400 ft high and 1km long.
On our way back to Calgary on Highway 3 we saw a sign for "Head Smashed In Buffalo Jump".
This is where native indians used to stamped buffalo over a precipice.  
We arrived back in the yard early evening, we had sunday to ourselves so were looking forward to skyping the children, our job for next week came through,  New Jersey!