We have now officially been gone for a week...this first on-the-road post will be an overview of what we've done so far...the funny stories and the pictures will come later...we left home early last Thursday morning and drove directly across the mountains...we stopped at the Hope Family Drive-In and Restaurant for breakfast and then continued on our way across the Coastal mountains and into the Rockies. We stopped at Craigellachie so that Fredi could see the place where the last spike was driven into the railway, connecting eastern and western Canada. We continued on into Banff, where Scott went to find internet in order to book a hotel, while everyone else walked up to the Banff Springs Hotel.
We ended up in Calgary around 9:30 pm or so, where we stayed overnight.
We left the next morning to leave Alberta behind, stopping for antihistamines for Kelsey, who had been hoping to leave her alergies behind in BC. She ended up leaving them behind in Saskatchewan instead. We drove to Cypress Hills in Saskatchewan to visit some friends who were camping there and then went to stay in their home in Shaunavon overnight.
Day three on the road took us into Manitoba, where we stayed in Portage La Prairie in a hotel that, while nice, was absolutely FREEZING! Fredi got up in the middle of the night to put on her sweater, socks and scarf because it was so cold!
We headed off to Ontario the next day, making several stops along the way before arriving in Sault Ste Marie. We stayed overnight and then we crossed the border into Michigan because Scott had a business call to make there.
Yesterday saw us return to Canada and drive to Guelph, which is where we are now...in a very nice hotel in the middle of the industrial area...no restaurants, stores or places of interest in sight...we were stranded up until about ten minutes ago, when Scott returned from making business calls. All in all a nice place to be stranded...there's a pool, and a gymn and a place to do laundry...hallelujah! :)
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