Stopped in Edam, SK to visit Harry's sister, Barb, and her family. Had hoped, too, to see Bill and Bev, Harry's brother and sister-in-law, but they weren't home. Headed to Saskatoon for supper (yummy quesedillas) and an overnight visit with Heather, Eli and Easton. It was fun seeing their new house. They are well settled and have already made lots of improvements. Spending time with Easton was such fun....he is rolling over and moving around and he never sits still...loves to be kicking his legs and flailing his arms all the time...and always with a big grin on his face. He was fascinated with Grampa Harry's wiggling toes :). He is SO adorable!!!
Left Saskatoon about 9 a.m. This morning heading east. The scenery was beautiful...rolling hills and lush crops and blue sky filled with puffy white clouds. We saw five potash mines off the side of the road...huge operations from the looks of it. We stopped in Lannigan and went into the little museum located in the old train station. We watched a short video on potash mining and were stunned to find out that in the mine outside Lannigan there are five hundred miles of underground tunnels!
We passed through lots of pretty little towns along the way. At Churchbridge we stopped to put on our rain gear as it had started spitting. We were intrigued to see a point of interest with a large replica of the loonie...turns out a local artist from the town was the one whose art was chosen from hundreds of entries as the one that would be stamped on the face of the loonie.
We also noticed at several towns along the way signs announcing that a number of NHL hockey players called the towns home!
It started to rain in earnest at Langenburg, just before the Manitoba border. We kept going ... Both in hopes it would just blow over, as well as in hopes that we would find a motel along the way as we were pretty sure we were not going to be able to make it to Portage la Prairie, which had been our original destination. At Shoal Lake we stopped but discovered the only motel in town was full, so it was back on the bike to Minnendosa, where we found a room for the night. Just back from supper and a visit with the owner of the motor inn. He and his wife are bikers too and are heading to the states tomorrow so it was fun swapping stories with him about some good rides.
We were disappointed to find we had missed the latest episode of The Amazing Race Canada as we have been enjoying seeing different parts of the country in yet another way. Seems we are on central time not mountain time now! :)
All in all another great day on the bike in spite of the rain! It is clearing now so will keep our fingers crossed that blue sky will greet us in the morning.
Cheers to all....Janice and Harry
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