According to Lonely Planet, Fyodor's, and Go; about all you can do in Saskatchewan is drive a dusty road to take a picture of some aging Ukrainian church or another. Somewhere around 10 pages of 'Lonely Planet: Canada' are devoted to Saskatchewan (read Saskatoon and Regina) - listing helpful things like 'go to a movie, go to the science centre' - yay! After perusing a few of these books, I was beginning to become slightly disheartened about my choice of destinations for the summer. Christ, we can't even claim the 'Vegreville Egg' as our own! (http://www.albertabigtour.ca/vegreville's_egg!.htm )
Damn those Albertans!
Sigh, will anyone ever look beyond the surface to see who we really are?
OOOOOOOOhhhhh Nooooooo ( read with a sarcastic whine)...... instead they're sitting in their posh [insert posh city here] doggie cafes telling jokes like this one:
1) How do you know when you're staying in a Moose Jaw hotel?
When you call the front desk and say, "I gotta leak in my sink," and the clerk replies, "Go ahead."
Well, yes, I'll admit I tittered a bit upon reading that one.....being from the 'big city' and all. I will also admit that outside of the 'strip' - the 278 km section of highway 11 south that connects Regina and Saskatoon - I am guilty of not having a single clue about the beauty, majesty, and excitement contained beneath the flat, monotone exterior of my dear home province's wheatfields (and canola, rye, mustard, and flax).
Well, I need raise my fist in the air no more at this dilemma! DYNO-MIKE has come to my rescue! 'Faster than the line-up at Canadian Tire'! Stronger than the average groudn squirrel! Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound! (caveat: in the Yukon only).....sigh....you're my hero DYNO-MIKE.
For the next five months I now officially have a great list of things to see and do!
Just look at everything that coy little school marm of a province actually has to offer!
Mike's top 10 Saskatchewan
10. Feeling a sense of the past at Motherwell Homestead
9. Buying ice cream in Waskesiu
8. Watching a thunderstorm from your garage
7. Cycling the Meewasin Trail
6. Barking with the prairie dogs at Grasslands National Park
5. Having breakfast at Taunte Maria's
4. Driving the Qu'Appelle valley at sunset
3. Eating mushroom cheddar chowder at the Berry Barn
1. Screaming along to 'Green is the Colour' at Taylor Field on Labour Day
Top 10 Saskatchewan Mike hasn't yet visited but wants to
10. Touring the small town of Rouleau (aka Dog River on Corner Gas)
9. Visiting the new RCMP Training Centre in Regina ($40 million to build; opens end of May)
8. Exploring the Tunnels of Moose Jaw
7. Kayaking the Clearwater River
7. Kayaking the Clearwater River
6. Watersliding at Kenosee (www.kenoseesuperslides.com/)
5. Camping in Meadow Lakes Provincial Park
4. Seeing Hunt Falls
3. Playing in the World Championship Bunnock Tournament(www.macklin.ca/bunnock.htm)
2. Afternoon tea and an evening play at a converted train station (www.stationarts.com/)
1. Finally seeing Stanley Mission
And let's make it 21 Mike - I do need to check out that hotel in Moose Jaw.....
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