MORE GOOD NEWS!
Let me start with the 72 hour break. You may remember my voyage with Cody to Quebec City, that was my 48 hour break in Montreal. During each rotation we get a weekend break, and an extra 24 hours if you happen to find a long weekend. But what are we gonna do in Sioux Lookout? Where are you gonna go? We didn't even know until Thursday, when Sharon Yule suggested we ask our good friend, local historian, ex-librarian, and volunteer goddess, Peggy Sander about using her cabin for the time off. Peggy was absolutely delighted that we wanted to use her cabin for the weekend, apparently she loves having young people stay at her cabin. Yes, for free. The only thing she asked was that we sign the guest book. Which is an honour, because look whose been there before us...
Prime Minister John Diefenbaker.
Gordie Howe.
The weekend was a mish-mash of amazing, being on the lake, fishing, cooking in the fireplace, and sleeping in. Peggy's cabin is a beautiful structure on a beautiful piece of land. Her husband and her had built the cabins years ago because he owned the hardware store in town, and he must've been handy because the place is still standing. The main cabin is right on the water, with the boat house about 10 meters further in land. Peggy's personal cabin was just slightly down the shore line. Trees and shorelines made a curtain of privacy between any other escapees enjoy their cabins. There was no functioning plumbing or electricity, so it was much more like camping then I had thought. We boiled water over the camp fire, and cooked the fish on the barbecue. It was a relaxing time, a time for us to just enjoy everything.
Francois, Landen, Cody, Andrew, and myself were the only one's who went to the cabin for the 72 hours, I like to think the rest of the group was jealous. I had a great weekend.
We struggled through the next week bouncing paperwork back and forth in an attempt to get our excursion protocol accepted. It must've worked because at 2p on Friday the Katimavan drove out of Sioux Lookout for a grueling 5 hour drive to Winnipeg! This venture made Katimavik history in that it is the most distance that has ever been traveled for an excursion. Usually you can only go within about 200km of your placement, but since we are so remote, we got a bonus. So much gas money....
Weclome to Manitoba!!
Lower Fort Garry provided much fun and a surprising amount of education. I found a new T-shirt for my collection featuring the face of Louis Riel with the caption "Keeping it Riel"
Our trip to the Royal Canadian Mint, we all got to hold the solid gold brick, worth half a million dollars.
The Forks in Winnipeg was entertaining under the guide of our GPS tour.
The famed Assinboine River, famed for it's flooding.
So many group photos.
The next day we volunteered at the 25th Teddy Bears Picnic in Winnipeg. Painting faces for 4 hours. For our nearly Japanese PL I decorated her face with sushi.
Francois the Pirate.
Andrew the Unicorn?
Peacock.
For Oma: This zoo has much history with Winnie the Pooh, as it was the Home of the original 'Winnie'.
Our group had a chance to meet up with the St. Boniface group, for dinner and zooing.
Returning home we had some fun stops on the way. Here's us returning to Ontario!
The chair!
The fish.
The Yeti.
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