Thursday

Today was our big day trip into Kenora, Ontario. I think I want to name one of my children Kenora so if you object to this, please don't ask me to marry you. We stopped just outside the city to have some pancakes and syrup (well it had to be done!) and Perogys which are Polish or Ukranian and which Rebecca has been wanting to introduce me to all week!

After driving through the prairies for an hour, we finally hit 'Canadian Shield' which is much more hilly and has rocky outcrops and pine trees (it felt a lot more like what I referred to as 'real Canada' ie the stereotypical landscape!)

Gradually the pine forests gave way to small lakes as we drove through Whiteshell and into Ontario. The larger lakes were dotted with holiday cabins. We stopped at a service station in Clearwater Bay to have ice-cream (I had Rolo and Rebecca had Algonquin Canoe).

Kenora itself was very maritime and we had a nice walk by the marina.On our way back we had a picnic in a random campground. We also followed the sign for East Braintree, only to discover that it had a church and 4 houses. We were not impressed.The day we nicely finished off by watching a video. Funny story about that. Rebecca didn't have enough I.D. with her so I JOINED A VIDEO STORE IN CANADA - isn't that hilarious? So far I have accumulated an American Eagle loyalty card and a Rodgers video card.