We arrived in Winnipeg to spend the next two nights at the Red River Expedition Center. Sunday was Canada's Thanksgiving Day to celebrate the harvest. Gail, Susanne and Carol came up with the idea to go out to dinner having a traditional Canadian Thanksgiving Dinner. Gail located a very nice restaurant and the three couples of us separated from the group for dinner. Monday morning a Tour Bus picked us up early and we began a tour of Winnipeg. This city is very European and has a large French contingent. Our first stop was the Asinine Gardens Park. For all you children out there, this is the home of Winnie-the-Poo. He was created in the building pictured. This is a lovely park with gardens, outdoor sculpture, and historic buildings to wander through. Its certainly popular with the locals as people were walking through the park on a cool and damp Sunday morning. Our second stop was the Provincial State House which, considering this was Canada's National Election Day, we were allowed to enter by pre-arrangement. A magnificent building patterned after King Solomon's Temple. Mid-day we stopped at the Central Market area to have lunch in the food court and do some souvenir shopping. In the afternoon we went to what I consider one of the finest historical museums I have ever been in. The museum guide with the aid of exhibits traced the orgin of Manitoba from several thousand years ago to modern times. Take a look at this website. http://www.manitobamuseum.ca/ We finished up the evening with our Caravan Farewell Dinner at a German restaurantand and then, one more nightcap in Bernie and Carol's Motorhome.
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