We went to the Peenaquim Park dog run on the north side on Sunday. It's not as big as the other dog run, and you don't run into as many other dogs, but we did meet this American bulldog and his boxer pal It was especially cool to see the bulldog, since Sami's mother was allegedly part Old English Sheepdog, part American bulldog. Strangely, after meeting this guy, we could see the resemblance. August 9.
on a monument at the St. Boniface cemetary, Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Jennifer and I had a few hours to kill before our flight back to Calgary, so we started off at the Forks, then attracted by the strangeness that is the Esplanade Riel, we found ourselves wandering over to St. Boniface, the French quarter of the city. Equally unintentionally, we ended up exploring the St. Boniface cemetery, which includes the tomb of Louis Riel. We soon realized that we hadn't left ourselves nearly enough time to explore Winnipeg! I would love to come back here with the family some time.
August 8
I had always been rather skeptical of the license plates proclaiming "Friendly Manitoba" since I seemed to know an awful lot of sour, surly ones, but being in Winnipeg made me think that they boot out the grumpy Manitobans.
Our really great hosts arranged a dinner on the patio of Hu's on First, overlooking the Winnipeg Goldeyes baseball game. I don't think I've ever been to a baseball game in my entire life before this. The food and the beer were both excellent. August 7.
I had a little time before the conference started on Friday evening, so I wandered around the campus a little bit. Right near the Engineering building was the administration building, which is really quite impressive. It was fun being on a larger campus again, with older buildings than there are at U of L. August 6.
Because I had to leave for Winnipeg the next day, we had to celebrate Tim's birthday one day early. Since we're cheap, we reuse candles - but who knew that the wicks for those number candles were so short? Stasha had the cunning plan of boring a small hole in the top of the O candle, and poking a regular candle in. It worked till Tim blew them out, as it was, like the celebrant, a little crumbly, too. August 5
despite the rain (early August, southern Alberta?) the neighborhood girls are undeterred from hopping around on the trampoline. August 4
Heritage Days - everyone turned up in their costumes looking very serious and sophisticated. Yeah, that's it. Much of the performance was like the multicultural festival at the end of June. All of the pictures from both days, are at the Flickr photoset. August 3.
