Our fourth province - Manitoba

So today we started our journey in Saskatchewan and ended in Manitoba. I must say I thought there would be more pomp...more umphhh....more something when crossing into a new province. Other provinces have let us down in that department but Manitoba had a large, hey I'm a really cool province, sign!  The sign is what is cool about Manitoba! haha!

Today we left early as there has been flooding and parts of Manitoba are under a state of emergency due to the Assiniboine River rising. Scary stuff for travellers but farmers have lost all their crops and people have lost their homes. With that said, I am glad we made it. It wasn't really hairy at all. A few places where the water kissed the edges of the highway. Nothing too scary for me.


There were massive wind turbines along the highway today. I was telling the kids how they are there to generate power and Cohen pipes up..." Great. Let's see if we can get some wifi!"  Now that would be something. Wifi on the highway! I bet the van would be silent then!!!

We thought we would be stopping more along the way to look at historical landmarks, but as we have our goal in mind of getting to Sarnia, we just drive on. I don't think we are missing much this time around as we have to drive back. Then we can stop...as long as everyone wants too. 

We do look out the window and notice our country. We watch the massively long trains wind their way through the hills and try and guess what's in the Canadian Tire cars. Cohen counts the number of cars or sees how long he can count and says, That car was 65 seconds long." When we do stop for a snack or for a toilet stop, we look around and we notice. This country is beautiful and the people are vastly different province to province.  For example, today I was in a corner store, not on a corner, but that's a different story. Almost everyone had on Saskatchewan Rough riders gear and you could buy anything to do with their CFL league in this shop. Deep seeded pride in their team! 



Gramma and Bunka shouted us a dinner at Boston Pizza. It was yummy and the kids loved it. Cohen tried to order 3 of the children's dishes...as usual in his funny manner. Theo had spicy sausage pasta. He is missing his Bunka's cooking and Madeline has nachos and is missing Gramma's endless supply of sour cream. We are in a really nice hotel that has an awesome pool and spa so we are all clean and relaxed and now drinking complimentary hot chocolates and green tea! 

Today's slideshow is short and the music is Harvest Moon by Neil Young, a Manitoba native. You'll thank me that it's short. You either love him or hate him. Either way, he's iconic!





Manitoba on PhotoPeach