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.