Country Inn Suites Winnipeg

... in her 70s had been dumped there by her niece or something, whose house she was going to stay at because she was sick. Apparently the niece's boyfriend had been in a car accident and she was too worried to have her there. I couldn't help but feel there was more to the story, especially when she went out and came home drunk in the middle of the day.

The ladies wasted no time in telling me about how the 70-year-old had been so sick the night before that she had vomited ...

... which would have been really pain free if it wasn't for the Aussie's who found it very difficult to understand that they had to empty EVERYTHING out of their pockets and therefore kept setting the alarms off. In front of me was an Aussie woman and what I assume was her German husband and he was more or less made to strip down because he kept beeping and he got very angry about this started yelling at them with words to the effect that they were jut as ...

... about an hour before Winnipeg. Nice to have a break from the fast food, and get some meat and potatoes into me.

It was near 10:00 when we finally got into our Holiday Inn Express Hotel room, still gave us enough time to get down to the pool, and hot tub for a quick dip. I grabbed a snack from a vending machine, feeling kinda, tired from the long drive. I figured that the feeling I was going ...

So I have gotten on the train once again. I said goodbye to the Novaks and ran into the terminal. It was only 11:45 but people were already getting on the train. I got in line with a teenager who I would find out later was named Bobby. We got to the gate only to find out they were only boarding sleeper cars at the moment. So off I trudged to the ...

... the first warning clearly - Manitoba looked like it had thousands of lakes, which in fact were flooded farmlands. The flooding of the Red River and a number of ice jams have forced many residents out of their homes. I even heard a story about a two-storey ice block that gained momentum and sliced right through a house. The second warning was reinforced shortly after. A nice man started chatting with me as we waited for the bus, and ...

... a call on his company phone to ma and pa. Sedric told a tale of how he was put in prison for eight days because he was hitching in a car that got pulled over and the cops found two pounds of weed in the trunk. I admired the story, being in prison in a foreign country, especially with the OPP, notorious for being less than fair police officers, that would be a wild experience indeed. So a few more miles and few more beers and we were in Winnipeg. Joe ...

Monday May 11 and Tuesday May 12 -Well, S is all set up in his apartment. We did a little last minute shopping and now the first of my 3 birds has officially left the nest. I'm a bit sad, and a little worried when I think too much, but mostly I'm proud that he's ready to start his life as a "grown-up". -Monday night we treated my sister K and her husband D to an excellent dinner at Joey's near Polo Park. They ...

...however, there was no point at all in our early arrival at Toronto station as although our train was due to leave at 9am, it wouldn't be arriving until noon. We were able to store our bags at the station and walked out into downtown Toronto in search of an internet cafe, and took some early morning photos of the CN tower. We couldn't find an internet cafe in the local area (Wi-fi is killing the internet caff) so decided we would go back to the station and phone our couch ...

... to the hostel and got our bags and a taxi to the greyhound. We put our bags into a locker and went back to the Fringe. The save improv guys were there again and we watched a while. We had a look at what shows were on that day and went to see one in the afternoon called "Richard is a Dick"it was pretty amusing, the plot was quite good, the acting a bit rough, but an overall good show. We decided to get some dinner then do another show in the evening before our bus at ...

... I was wheeled through security then waited to reboard the plane. I waited with this nice woman from India who was also in a wheelchair and was heading to San Diego to visit her daughter. We had a nice chat. We reboarded first. Our flight attendants had changed but the new ones had been briefed about me before I got on and told me that they would help me in any way they could and give me lots of buns (but no more fruit cause I decided maybe that was a bad idea). Once everyone ...