MOM's way

MOM's Way sign 

We got a boot out of the name of this highway. It's 400 miles long and goes from Winnipeg, Manitoba to Thunder Bay which is next to Lake Superior in the province of Ontario. We drove on all 400 miles!

Fast Cars and Freedom lyrics

RASCAL FLATTS LYRICS

"Fast Cars And Freedom"

Starin' at you takin' off your makeup
Wondering why you even put it on
I know you think you do but baby you don't need it
Wish that you could see what I see it when it's gone
I see a dust trail following an old red Nova
Baby blue eyes, your head on my shoulder

We went to a talent show at Riding Mountain National Park in Manitoba. A twelve year old boy played a guitar and sang this song. I was crying by the end! I'm sure that boy's parents have to keep a stick by the front door to keep the girls away.

All of the Canadian kids were so entertaining and so sweet. They sang, danced, lip-synched, did magic, played their instruments. One group was all girls. Some big girls and some little girls and they sang a song called "Summer Girls." The guy who introduced them said, "Summer over 20 and summer under 20." Haha! There were so cute! It was so down home and sweet. I felt like I was in another world, as though I'd stepped back in time.

At home, a school talent show would be full of hip-hop and Britney Spears' acts. So narrow. So age-inappropriate. As it was, there was one 11-year-old American girl from Illinois who danced and she was bumping and grinding to a tune from Flashdance for all she was worth. It was sad. Technically she was excellent, but her demeanor and her movement was different from the rest of the show. I think U.S. children are being robbed of their childhood.

Our son was in the talent show too. He showed everyone his bike which he's quite proud of and he named the province and/or state that each flag on his trailer represents. He has about 20 flags on it! I hope he blended well with the Canadian children.

The great out-drawers

Skivies in my backyard 

I made a joke. Haha! Sadly, I have not had many, or rather any, awesome photographic moments this year. I have zip for a 2007 calendar so far. So I was wandering about outside and my husband told me not to take a picture of his unders. Click!

We're online! Spent over 90 minutes on the phone which will count as roaming and I have no idea what the bill will amount to (oh dear) but here we are online, still in Canada. Instant happiness!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hi!

I have one hour and now 10 minutes are left. Whew! We're at an internet cafe, with prices exorbitant, that charges by the hour. Canada is beautiful. I am homesick though. The worst of it is, as you may have guessed by the lack of activity, our satellite evidently cannot connect to our assigned satellite from this far north. We are kaput with internet. We think it's due to curvature of the Earth? It's been awful. Kara, and Michele, and Elvea, I will write soon! I want to write now but I must, must, do a bit of research for homescholing.

We're in the great province of Manitoba. We came in at Alberta and drove clean across the grassy prairie land of Saskatchewan. We must have passed millions of acres of canola. And 54% of all of Canada's wheat comes from southern Saskatchewan. Riding Mountain National Park has been wonderful. We'll be heading for home in the next two weeks.