My Winnipeg (with apologies to Guy Madden)

Trip Start Oct 01, 2008
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Trip End Oct 27, 2008


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Where I stayed
with Dave and Lois
(Winnipeg hotels)

Flag of Canada  , Manitoba,
Sunday, October 19, 2008

We arrived in Winnipeg on a beautiful morning and headed right down to the Forks, where we parked the campers and walked into town to have lunch at the Wagon Wheel, a Winnipeg institution that has been featured in Reader's Digest and is well-known for its clubhouse sandwiches. It is like a walk  back into time, with its genuine diner atmosphere and delicious banana milk shakes, made with real bananas. In the early afternoon, we arrived at Larry's cousin Dave's house where Dave and Lois welcomed us with a wonderful turkey dinner, a late Thanksgiving celebration which they shared with the four of us and their children Ian and Jamie and his fiancee Christianne. At the conclusion of the meal, we were poured glasses and champagne and told that Jamie and Christianne are going to get married on July 17, 2009.What a great surprise! Much fun was had discussing wedding customs and plans.

Saturday, Lois took Maggie and Joan shopping while Dave, Larry and Murray went to some antique (junk) shops. I found a cozy winter jacket that will be useful in Churchill as well as for trips to Calgary in the winter. After an early dinner at a Thai restaurant, we visited Fort Whyte, a bird sanctuary right in the city of Winnipeg, where we watched thousands of birds landing on the ponds for the evening. It is an incredible sight, seeing skein after skein of birds landing in the water and the sound of honking and quacking is amazing. Winnipeg is in one of the major migratory routes for birds. Fort Whyte is an education centre and sanctuary that has been created out of a former rock quarry. The quarries have been filled with water and the surrounding land also supports wetlands and a bison paddock.  Then, it was back home for an early start on our trip to Churchill. 
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