Manitoba Trip - September 2024

Fly-home day comes all too soon, when you're on a 48-hour weekend getaway. :-(  We were up fairly early, enjoyed a nice breakfast at the Delta, and then set out to see three key things before flying home mid-afternoon:  a return visit to the Legislature, Assiniboine Park, and the Royal Aviation Museum of Western Canada.  We had hoped to take in the Inuit art of the Winnipeg Art Gallery, but the Gallery's 11AM opening meant that will have to wait for our next visit. The morning went like clockwork. We took in a lot of sights and boarded our flight for home sad to see our Manitoba visit come to an end. Winnipeg is overshadowed by Canada's larger cities, in terms of popularity. But honestly, we were enthralled by the 'Peg. And the people truly live up to the Manitoba license plate slogan, "Friendly Manitoba".  A Return to the Manitoba Legislature The crisp morning blue sky made it impossible not to return to the Legislature! The famous Golden Boy atop the Legisla...

We awoke to our first full day in Manitoba with a sense of urgency:  there is much to see today! The heavens opened while we ate breakfast, so what was supposed to be a 40% chance of rain seemed to be quickly ramping up to a rainy morning.  And rain was definitely the name of the game until early afternoon.  But that didn't stop us. Armed with amazing information provided by our friends, Brigitte and Adrian, the plan was as follows:  drive north to see some Lake Winnipeg sights as far as Gimli, then return to the city, to take in the Canadian Museum for Human Rights, The Forks, Saint-Boniface, and the Legislature.  Let's see how we made out with that plan.... A view of some of Winnipeg's downtown towers at the start of what was a smorgasbord of weather on summer's last day! A wall of shoes in honour of residential school children, in downtown Winnipeg. As we started off for the day, our jaws were constantly dropping, as every gas station we passed made us realiz...