We Heart Winnipeg Too!

We had the most fun in Winnipeg. First of all, we were absolutely spoiled by Kieran's Aunt Olive and Uncle Russ. Aunt Olive cooked for us at all hours of the day and Uncle Russ chauffered us around the city.

Second of all, Winnipeg is cool! It has so much history and you can feel all 10,000 years of it, especially at The Forks. I loved the idea that 10,000 years ago people gathered at The Forks in the summer and here we are today, doing just that.

Our first day, we wandered around The Forks and took it all in then had lunch at the Marketplace before exploring Saint Boniface. In Saint Boniface, we found a lovely little cafe. After, we explored the old cathedral and found Louis Riel's tomb.

On our second day, we went to the Manitoba Museum, had lunch at a fancy restaurant that specialized in regional foods (bison steak and wild rice and little mini squash things!), and then took in a play at the Fringe Festival. The play was an absolute blast: Giant Killer Shark the Musical. It's just silly. Wonderfully silly. And I've got a penchance for silly. (Aside: I also think silly is the key to world peace. If only facist megalomaniacs were more silly, maybe they wouldn't take themselves and their manifestos so seriously, you know?)