Enroute to Calgary!

Our last night in Winnipeg was pretty nasty. There was a huge thunderstorm with hail and tornadoes and everything. Okay, the tornadoes wasn’t actually in Winnipeg, but a small town outside of Winnipeg. We spent the evening in the hotel. The thunder kept me awake most of the night. It’s good that Andre prefers driving because I’m pretty zonkered.

We left Winnipeg around 8am, leaving behind our grand plans for a Salsbury house or Room Service breakfast. We just guzzled down a Yop each and hit the road. On our way out, we stopped at a Tim Hortons in Portage la Prairie. There was something strange with that town. All around P-la-P, it was pretty sunny with fluffy white clouds. The minute we got into P-la-P, it was BLACK skies. And I mean black. I was afraid we’d get caught up in a tornado!

We got our timmies as fast as we could and booted it out of there. Our next stop was in Rouleau, Saskatchewan. If you don’t know the significance of Rouleau, Saskatchewan, AKA “Dog River”, Saskatchewan, let me enlighten you. There is a Canadian show called Corner Gas that takes place in Dog River, Saskatchewan and it is filmed in Rouleau. Andre’s a huge Corner Gas fan, so we had to stop. It’s only about 30 minutes outside of Regina. There were a number of hardcore Canadians that were stopped in Rouleau while we were. The show was cancelled last year, so they don’t film it anymore. The set looked quite deserted. But, it’s such a small town that they’ve kept most of the Dog River signs and such as a tourist attraction, which is very smart. They’ve even taken “Rouleau” off of the Grain Elevator and kept “Dog River”. There are a bunch of buildings in the “downtown” that still display their previous TV set incarnation. A very sad looking café, which was once the Dog River police station still says “Municipal Police” on the front. Most of the businesses that were used at the TV set are just abandoned buildings, or they’ve been turned into souvenir gift shops to sell Dog River and Corner Gas paraphernalia. But, we still bought a Corner Gas T-Shirt for my quilt. J

We stopped in Swift Currant to have a birthday dinner at Boston Pizza. We were going to eat our sandwiches, but Boston Pizza sounded better. It made us an extra hour later, but it was worth it!

As we were coming into Calgary, there was such a beautiful sunset, we took a picture of it out the car window.

The lovely Sunset coming into Calgary on the Cowboy Trail

Andre at Corner Gas

The set of Corner Gas

Cows at the side of the road. The looked friendly.

The angry sky over Portage la Prairie.