Paul Lake --> Tornado ---> Edmonton

Kilometers driven - 817 (1191 km total)
Jurassic Park references made - 1
Times re-fueled - 3 (Fucking, 3!)

Okay, so we actually made it to Edmonton and yes that's a big deal. But I'm not giving away the farm yet, so you'll have to drag your eyeballs through some of this post to find out what I mean.

Paul Lake? We hiked to the top of a damn mountain. It was pretty intense! Whenever Hilary makes a blog post, there will be pictures. We saw a BEAR. And so many trees. The pictures probably won't do it justice, so you'll just have to climb it yourself. Okay, we didn't see a bear. But we saw two little snakes! Doug and Judy, Sarah's, "way more fun than Sarah", parents got us pretty liquored on margarita's while we played Cards Against Humanity. Turns out Judy is pretty funny, she mopped the floor with us.

Leaving Paul Lake was pretty uneventful, we gassed up and took the gorgeous #5 highway towards Deadmonton. Everyone, ever, should make that drive. It was incredible.

About two hours out of Edmonton, just leaving Jasper (where we saw a deer, just chillin' like a Snorlax havin' a snack on the side of the road), Hilary says to me, "Hey look at that cloud, it looks pretty intense," to which I reply, "Uhhh babe... That's a FUNNEL CLOUD. A fucking massive funnel cloud... must go faster, must go faster".

Time driven through tornado - 1

At this point, we decided to check the radio to see if any weather alerts were saying something along the lines of, "FOR THE LOVE OF GOD DO NOT DRIVE TO EDMONTON". All we got was a country music station (thanks Alberta) and some kind of race car/ rah rah 4th of July station (thanks... Alberta?) So we just made like there was a T-Rex behind us and hoped we didn't end up like that crappy Twister movie.

Aboot 45 out of Edmonton there was a sign that read something like, "Super Awesome Alaska Detour Route".

SURPRISE WE'RE IN ALASKA.