Monday

Today we moved out of the city limits a little. We started off the day by having lunch in the Prairie Ink cafe in McNally Robinson, a bookshop which is a Winnipeg institution. The bookshop was lovely and the children's section upstairs was dubbed the '100 Aker Wood' and had various references to Winnie the Pooh including a forest where they could read books.
You may or may not know that Winnie the Pooh was inspired by a real bear called Winnie the Bear, from Winnipeg! I visited the zoo in Assiniboine Park solely to take a picture of the statue. On our way out to visit the St Norbert ruins, we passed a heritage park and decided to go in for 15 mins. It reminded me of the Ulster American Folk Park and there were lots of interesting things to see inside the houses, although it must be mentioned that we ended up just chatting to the French Canadian tour guide as he was very cute! The St Norbert Ruins were also lovely and it was here that I had my first glimpse of prairie grass.
Tonight we met Rebecca's Grandmere for dinnner and then coffee. She is a lovely woman of 92, who acts and looks like a 65-year-old! She heard I hadn't had tea all week so she made me some back at her house, and then we made a funny video about the uses of tea and the proper way to make it! I still can't get over how youthful she is, she is also really trendy (probably due to her being an artist long ago!)