4:00pm - Inglis Elevators

 

Drove 18km out of the way on another lonely planet suggestion, the Inglis Grain Elevators. They were described as "majestic" and "phenomenal", I don't think I would go that far. Heus actually got out of the car to look at them, so these are the pictures that resulted. 

2:00pm - Choy's Chinese Canadian Restaurant

We stopped for lunch in a really dinky town on the side on the highway. The only restaurant in town was Choy's Chinese Canadian, right next door to Choy's Electrical Appliances. The place was full of old men, and two little old ladies came in a bit later... so I would say it was bumping. We sampled the Chinese Combo A, and the Chicken Chop Suey... not bad, really. Probably won't race back however. 

11:00am - Canoeing in Clear Lake

Waited around this morning for about half an hour to rent a canoe (the marina was closed because it was raining and nobody really wants to canoe in the rain, except Heus.) We took it out for an hour, hoping to see a beaver, but we just got soaking wet and tired out our arms. It was fun in the end, and at least we got some exercise after sitting in the car for a week! 

Day Six, June 10th

We just finished breakfast at the Elkhorn Dining Room. It was pretty good. The highlight was definitely the Elk sausage. We felt a bit guilty eating such a beautiful animal but neither of us have ever tried elk before (or if we have, we don't remember) so we thought we would try it out. It was pretty tasty but very earthy, you could tell it had come from a wild animal. Our waitress served it to us with a bottle of mustard and suggested we smoother it in mustard to cut out the "wilderness" taste. All in all good breakfast and we are ready to go find kayaks/canoe. Today we are heading to Saskatoon, and looking forward to the beautiful Thriftlodge, located in (we're sure) the classiest strip mall in town. 

11:40pm - Going to bed...

We went for dinner at the 'Lounge' at the Elk Horn resort and had a really good meal. It was fun because the hockey game was on and there was a pretty big crowd there - much bigger than what we have seen at the Super 8/Boston Pizza in Thunder Bay or at the Elephant and Castle/Marlburough in Winnipeg. We wanted to try another Manitoba beer and have heard that there is one called Three Rivers, but the bar didn't have it and so our waitress suggested a beer from Saskatchewan, which actually turned out to be from Alberta. We are going to reserve our judgement on that one until we actually get to Alberta... but the prospects of us trying it again are not good, to say the least. 

Now we are just relaxing in the room, catching up on the news/trashy TV. It's been a great day all in all, and we are looking forward to doing a bike ride in the morning, then going on a bit of a kayak/canoe trip before we head out for Saskatoon.

Lindsay blogging in front of the fireplace with a glass of Manitoba 'wine'... 

6:30pm - BISON SIGHTING!

We came across a most exciting field chock full of BISON. We got really close to one feller and were able to snap a few great shots! They seem to travel in a pretty big herd and were apparently not alarmed by the noiseless electric car. They were pretty cute, except they seem to have random hair loss that we hope is not attributable to any serious disease (Manitoba is getting slammed by H1n1!). We would like to say more about the cute bison but they pretty much just stood there and munched. 

5:30pm - Fifth Moose Sighting!!

Not a good picture, but we have to keep track! The Meese in the park don't seem as comfortable around cars as the ones on the side of the highway (go figure). We also saw our first Elk soon after this, but he ran away too fast to even get a picture. Nonetheless, we pretty much freaked out when we saw him and it was probably our screaming that scared him away, not the car (the prius is electric for christ's sake, it doesn't make any noise!).

Next time there will be less screaming and more photo-documenting, we're on a mission now. That thing was amazing!! And Big.