And Another Visit!

We left Maple Creek, Sask., this morning around 10 am.  It was a fairly long drive to our destination today, but it was straight and mostly flat, as you can imagine.  Yep, flat.  Big, big sky though.



We headed to southeast Saskatchewan, the area where my Dad grew up.  This is an example of the grain elevator of today.

This is an example of the grain elevator of yesteryear, without the silo.  My uncle used to run one of these grain elevators in a small town called Osage, on another road southeast of Regina.

We saw a couple of small potash mines along the way.  Sorry, the photo isn't great - other side of the road.

It's flat enough you can see the grain elevators clearly from about 10-15 km away.  You think it's only a kilometre or 2 down the road, but you never seem to get there!  This is the City of Regina.  We are about 25-30 km from it.



We arrived at our destination, Kipling, around 4 pm.  It's just a small town, but very nice.  They had this pot sitting in the middle of the main intersection in town.

So when I knew we were coming to this area, I contacted my cousins to let them know, and if they had a spare evening, to come and see us.  It turns out the only timing that would work for all of us was tonight.  So, Laura took it upon herself to organize food for the evening.  She knew we would just be landing, and Kathy had to work until 6:30.  As Laura said, the important thing is getting together.  It was perfect.  We had a great visit, and Laura brought her sister out as well.  I haven't seen Evelyn for 28 years, and neither of us remember, so it was great chatting with her and her husband, Tony.

Here we all are - from left to right - Evelyn, Kathy, Don her husband (standing behind her), Tony, Laura (standing behind him), Gerard.

What a great evening with some cousins.

I think that's the end of our visits for this trip!  We've had 4, which has been really unusual, and 3 in the last 3 days.  Just love it.