Winnipeg!!!

Day Two Winnipeg!! 

So this morning we woke up still on the Canadian Shield.  LOL In an hour or so we will be in Winnipeg.  Mom and I decided to have breakfast there instead of on the train.  After de-training we went over to the Force Market.  There were some really nice stores in there.  We ate at the pancake house.  Yum!  We bought postcards and stamps and wrote them out to send from the train station.  I bought some drinks and we both bought these lovely paintings!  

The artist is Lesia Anna.  We met her and she was super nice.  She told me I was beautiful and reminded her of her sister.  I bought one painting and a framed saying.  It was fairly inexpensive and well worth the money!  We left the market and ambled back to the rain station, mailed our cards and sat down to wait to re-board.  We smiled and chatted with all our train friends.  And saw a few new people getting ready to get on and join us.  They called re-boarding and we did and off we went!  J  

Into the prairies...dun dada dun!  Can you say mostly flat?  Yeah, everything you heard...true!  Lots of flat ground and growing wheat crops and other crops too, lots of little lakes and ponds, ducks!  The ducks are smaller here!  So cute!  Lots of birds along the tracks, Red-Winged Blackbirds are predominant.    After dinner I decided to be brave.  LOL I had a shower on the train.  Let me explain something.  We had lost a lot of time because of freight trains.  They take predominance in certain areas and we had to stop and let them pass.  This takes time.  So the train engineer was making up for lost time and travelling fairly quickly this evening.  So...you are in a fast moving train, in a small cubicle getting jostled around, a lot.  I didn’t even use the conditioner, the shampoo got in my eyes and it was soooo not a lot of fun, but very funny all the same.  So I got out of there and wouldn’t you know it as soon as I got back to my cabin the damn train stopped.  What the hell?  So not fair...LMAO 

I went to bed and called it a day...LOL

Tomorrow we will be in Alberta!  Edmonton is early am, then onto Jasper early afternoon.