Friday, Saturdday, Sunday; October 3,4,5, 2008

We’re driving north up the east side of the Province of Manitoba with the destination of Thompson scheduled for Sunday night the 5th. On Friday night the 3rd we stayed at a city owned campground in Dauphine. This area of the Province is heavily settled by descendents from the Ukraine area of Europe. We toured a historic Ukraine Catholic Church in the evening and then we were hosted to dinner by ladies of the church. The evening was concluded with some audience participation in the dancing customs of the Ukraine’s. It was an educational and fun evening for all of us. Saturday the 4th we spent the night dry camping at an Indian Casino at the city named, The Pas. On our drive here we discovered Tamarack Trees for the first time since leaving home. Their colors were changing continually in various shades of yellow as you can see in the attached photo. Sunday the 5th was more of the same scenery as we passed numerous large inland lakes. Just outside of Thompson we stopped at Pisew Falls. See photos attached. Monday we leave via slow passenger train to travel to Churchill MN on Hudson Bay for our much anticipated viewing of the Polar Bears. We return to Thompson Friday the 10th. Having passed the 55th Parallel at this point in our travels, we are getting ever closer to the Arctic Circle. photos to follow