Yorkton Travelodge

... goes for 8 weeks and is two hours a day, will be one on one with someone who most likely won't speak any English. Classes cover topics involving Guatemala and Central America: political studies, economics, geography, and international studies. Classes, I'm expecting, should be great. Plans for field trips and group travel haven't been confirmed yet, but we should be visiting a lot of places that a lot of tourists wouldn't normally go ...

... the night if I tried, but why would I want to? I showered and slept up and uncle Dave bought us birthday breakfast and delivered me to my escapedome, back on the road. Again many thanks and good-byes and back to the ol grind. Two super old ladies pulled over and *******n I wish they gave me a ride but they said they were only going a couple miles, one told me she had hitched in the 60's!! Yee-ha! I got a ride by a crazy dude who asked me ...

... time. Geocaching has been going, to say the least, interesting. Manitoba should be referred to as the land of a thousand mosquito's. I think i may actually be one large hive by the end of the night. We have found eight and are trying to convince mom that "eight is enough". She just doesn't know when to stop on that part of the trip, she is an addict in her own form, especially when it comes to geocaching. But anyway, we did seriously end ...

... up, I couldn't plan anything - all I could do was lay on the couch and feel sorry for myself. Thankfully, the flu bug broke this morning and I could finally finish the rest of the preparation for the trip. We leave Melville at 6am tomorrow morning, to catch our 11:35am flight. Cripes, it's going to be one long day.

... airline counter we would visit to check our baggage, I wouldn't have had to go through all the trouble. Such is life. Out of the simple desire to know what www.selloffvacations.com would charge us for the same package, we checked it out. $8.00CDN more. We booked from them. I mean, they actually talked to us! What would you have done? Eight more sleeps.

... myself to the peril of jogging (slowly, at best) for the excruciating 40 minutes it would take to get me through it? Why not use this as an opportunity for building character? Why not make a fool of myself by not even being able to make it through the park road without having to stop and catch the breath that had apparently gone out of its way to get as far away from me as possible? Sure, why not? And so ...

... When I think about it, what I enjoy seeing most of all is the architecture of a building. I loved the little room on the third floor with the stained glass window. You had to walk through a little corridor to the window, and all that's really there is a single chair and some old-style typewriters. But it was like being propelled back in time, and I could so imagine myself being herded through the floors from one class to the next, or stopping in the mess hall to ...

... have to go for breakfast. No complaining from us however, as for $2 you can't get much anymore these days and a whole breakfast (though not very large) does count for something. Now I sound old. We watched the parade right outside my grandma's place - with her two friends and my mother, and our two dogs. I'm pretty sure there were LESS floats this year than last. Faith apparently doesn't get me anywhere (read last entry).

... I did. Right to a fielder who in turn caught the ball, making me their second out of the inning. Quickly turning to run back to the dugout in shame, I stepped out of turn and gave myself a charlie-horse in the calf. Those hurt! I therefore pulled myself from the game and sweated for the rest of the night sitting on the bench. I'm told it was because I wasn't drinking ...

... along and have fun with it. We made extra stops for iced cappuccino's, made circles in the Tim Horton's parking lot, and flew down the grid road to Burgis Beach. Melissa knew the owners of the Beach Store, so we went in and said 'hi' to them, got changed, and walked down to the beach. I was hot out there today and I think everyone on earth was at that beach - for a secondary beach area, it was packed solid with bodies. After ...