Central in Canada

June 16, 2010

Three provinces later...

Winnipeg was small but had some hidden hotspots for the modern day hippy. A great M.E.C. took care of some outdoor needs and sent us in the direction of the 'Exchange District', where we found some great spaces to eat, relax, listen, and dessert! We camped in Foam Lake the next night, with a slogan like "Best place in the WORLD to live" who wouldn't?

The prairies were typically flat, but atypically green and lush! There was a 360° view of the horizon, and the purity of hues - yellow from the hay bales, blue from the water where it's been flooded, and green from the manicured grass - was my favourite part of central Canada. In Saskatoon we stayed with Andrea's oldest brother Paul, perused the Mendel Art Gallery, and cuddled up in an independent theatre to watch The Trotsky (starring the city we left, Montreal). Now we are in Alberta camping in the Dinosaur Provincial Park, where the most dinasaur fossils have been found in almost all the world! We enjoyed an educational bus trip around the park with a theatrical tour guide named Kate. We found actual dinosaur fossils, touched rock imprints of dinosaur skin, and saw a petrified log: a process of mineralization where all the molecules in the tree turn into rock. Our next stop is Drumheller, and then onto Calgary. Alberta and BC will have our most attention, but the other parts have captured our hearts as well.

- I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. They are so unlike your Christ -

Ghandi