Rolling right along!

 As I write this, we are currently in Edmonton, Alberta visiting friends but let's go back to the past!

Visiting Roger and Linda in Edmonton and Dick dragged Roger to the most difficult golf course he has played on.  What an experience for Roger.  I am sure he thought he was gonna die!  I would have died for sure.  What a trooper!

Roger and his friends all have super fancy garages and are total gear heads with fancy hot rods. It was cool to see his and the neighbors garage collections. 

A lovely martini to finish this particular evening! Believe me...there was many an alcohol choice every evening!  No lack of spirits in this house! Felt right at home.

While in town we went to a dinner show that was amazing.  A musical show with songs of the 80s.  Great humor, acting and singing.

On our way to Edmonton Linda texted that we needed to stop at this giant egg.  We were expecting something white coming out of a chicken bum but NO!  This was an amazing moving Ukrainian work of art!  Stopping for giant things is a must no matter how corny you may think they might be...they could turn out to be some beautifully engineered work of art!

Stopped in Saskatoon for 2 nights to catch up on laundry and rest.  Went to a brewery and were starving so we settled for the house specialty.  Yea, under all that stuff is a hotdog.  We don't eat these often but when starving they will do.  The tots & beer were great!

Distilleries are always a must stop and always seem to break the bank.  If its bank breaking you know we drink to much!

Stopped at a golf/disc golf course.  Great easy walkabout. While traveling in our mini truck for thousands of miles, it is great to get out and walk.  I do not need the hills and valleys of difficult disc golf courses, but when there is a nice flatish course like this one was, I am sure to get out and walk it.

 

Our stop before Saskatoon was Lake of the Prairies at Sharron and Laurie's place right on the Lake.  How beautiful this place was and they called it a cottage.  I could live here year-round.  Ok, maybe not in the winter.  We had a great time doing chores, boating, walking, meeting their friends, eating great food and playing games daily.

Beautiful sunset over the lake they live on too!

The lake was so calm one day that the reflection of the cloud on the lake was just freaky!

Happy hour daily with these guys was great!  Fun relaxing lake life!

The Canadians pay a good wage for slave labor! We helped install a border around a flower bed

trying to earn our keep!

WE FOUND WALDO!!

Laurie and Sharons cottage!

Prior to going to they're cottage we were at their house in MacGregor, Manitoba.  This is a picture contributed to the blog. A guy likes what he likes!

We were luck enough to visit their family and hang out with their bubble blowing granddaughter Findley.  They have horses and cows and lots of farmland.  Great people. 

The tiny town of MacGregor even had a golf course and yes Dick dragged Laurie out there to play.  He will forever introduce people to this game he has such a love for.  He left him some discs to play with in the future and perhaps he will play with other members of his family.  Sharon and I just walked along.  Perhaps she will even play.  She did toss a few.

A couple more big things in a town. 

On the was to MacGregor we stopped at this Mary Browns Chicken joint.  This is a place that is Canadian only or so we think, so when in Rome.  It was a great Chicken sandwich!!  Chick flick as I call it has nothing on Mary Brown.  Mary Brown should gravitate south.  I love me some fried chicken

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Just another bag of wine!

Another roadside attraction!  Glass bottle house with a bit of creepiness!  Still a cool place to visit.  You gotta admire the work that goes into some of these things even if it's not your thing!

One of the few living wildlife creatures we have seen along our Canadian travels.  We see a lot of signs but now we don't say moose the next 15 km, we just point at it and say MORE LIES!!!

WHAT!!! Another big thing!!

Kenora was a pretty cool little town with a great farmers market.  We had a good rest there.

Live music in some other little town we visited. We believe this was all of the people in the whole town.

Our fancy motel had a pay phone. 

Great views as we traveled across northern Lake Superior.

Yup....more beer!!

Just a fun thing we should all make for a snack!!

That's all for now!  I will most likely have more pictures of our adventures in Edmonton in the next blog because we will most likely be here for another 5 days before we heat to the Banff area to meet up with daughter Roni, Dan and the ever-entertaining granddaughter Harriet.

As always....ignore the grammar and misspelling because I have way more important things to do that proof read this blog.

Friend's, friend's & more friends?

Goodbye to Newfoundland, hello Nova Scotia (again).  We heard about this great tidal change so we thought we would investigate this and see if it was all it is cracked up to be!

Arrived at out fun resort.  It is nothing like the picture. That's OK!  From the price we paid we knew what we were getting into.  It was close to the best viewing of the tidal change and that is what we came for.  Who travels great distance, pays tons of money for a fancy place and just lounges around??  Couldn't you just lounge around on your own couch for free?  Anyhow, it was fine for a few days and the bed bugs only bit my toes! Just kidding there were no bed bugs!

The next pictures are high tide!

After a few little walk abouts we found a pretty butterfly sculpture and a covered bridge that was part of an old mill!

We hiked out to the beach to watch the tide go out and were amazed at how fast it traveled.  Saw some pretty cool things that would be covered with water at high tide.

The little line in the middle back on shore where the water line was is the staircase from above. It does meet the water when the water is at high tide so......we were walking on the bottom of the ocean sort of!

Stairs, stairs and more stairs should have been the title of this post.  From the height of some of the pictures later in the post you can imagine the number of stairs we climbed.  In my opinion....there were way too many!!! 

This marina was a site to see.  They come in at high tide and at low tide they are just hanging around the dock waiting for the water to come back up.  Super crazy looking!

We just couldn't wait around for the tide to come in so we went to the Holy Whale brewery again.  We went to one on Prince Edward Island, I think.  Not the greatest beer but there is not a plethora of breweries in every town.  If you get one you are lucky.  Go to the big cities and you have more choices. But to many choices is stressful!

So, this is low tide.  You can see the water lines on the rocks and see all the people walking about down on the ocean floor.  Super cool.  Guess what??? There were a million stairs to geta down there and then you had to go back up!!  Worth every step!

Just some pretty weeds hanging from the rock!

Not a million steps but a bunch!

Moving on to another place.  For the life of me I just cannot remember the name of this town, but it does have a claim to fame.  The world biggest axe!  We did not feel the need to take a picture of this as it is a weapon of destruction, and we are people of peace and love!  Well now you know I am full of shit!!  We just didn't get the opportunity to do it.  We were in this camping cabin for 3 day and cooked up some amazing food on our little burner, soaked in the St John River, Disc golfed, drank beer and just relaxed a bunch.  It was very needed!  Go, go, go can be fun but tiring.  

Pretty cat tails!  I have not seen these in years!

Just a bird!

Why does every word in French have to have a Q.  I bet if you played this in in Scrabble it would not fly!

In Quebec City at the Citadel. Our friend Line is a retired military person, and she got us in for free.  We walked about and snuck in on a tour of the jail.  Great views from up her and tons of good history.

Dick, Pam & I on top of the world with a cannon!

Not fake people!  I have no clue how they can stand for so long and not move!  It is insane and why???  I guess I should google that someday, but do I really need to know the whys of everything silly!

Great painting on what was a very boring building at one time!

Smoky the Mountie capturing me for bringing to much bourbon into the country!

You really feel like you are in a different country in these French cities.  I guess I never need to go to France after visiting here now!

What the hell was I thinking eating this!  French fries with gravy and cheese curds. As they say....When in Rome!!  Poutine is what they are calling it.  How it ever came about is not something I need to Google!  It is a much-loved food for there are chain restaurants that specialize in this.  It is on every menu, and people just go ga ga over it.  We all have our thing which makes this world great and just because some other culture likes it, doesn't mean we all have to but trying different foods as we travel has always been fun.   

I think we have moved on to Montréal.  So many cool old building it's hard to tell.  I love seeing the old pop up above the trees. Why don't they build beautiful buildings like these anymore? 

Teaching Line to play Disc golf!  We hope she will continue!

We watched the boat lock through in Ottawa.  We have locked through on rivers before but these we manually run which was crazy and they were built many moons ago and I think it was a series of 5 or 6 step ups in water level but very cool to watch.

At Pam & Lines house! Turkeys everywhere!  Playing hide and seek in the soybeans!

Visited the friends we visited in Newfoundland in Ottawa at their other house and had a great dinner and boat ride and played more fun card games with them. 

We moved on to Lindsay, ON to visit more friends that we met in Tucson for a couple of days.  Rented another cheap hotel $56 dollars a night should tell you of the condition of this place. No matter.  We are spending most of the time at their house. They rented a pontoon boat and picked us up at a dock close to a pub and we ate lunch then went on a ride about Rice Lake for a couple of hours.  Fishing was on the agenda but only one small fish was caught.  There was much fun had and some sun burn. 

This is our fancy $56 dollar a night room!

We went to a brewery that was having a comedy show and had a blast.

Tonight we end with a fire and farewell to these fine people we will see again in Tucson!  Our journey will take us North and west of Winnipeg where we meet up with fore friends we met in Tucson so until then, be happy, be kind, & laugh every day!