Saskatoon, SK, and Wainwright, AB – October 15th to 17th

From Weyburn we headed to Regina, about an hour away, and had dinner, before deciding to find somewhere along the road to sleep as we didn’t feel like driving the full way to Saskatoon that night. Surprisingly, it wasn’t too cold in the car, although it was pretty chilly outside! So with a massive amount of sleep the next morning, we felt much better about the day ahead! For a while at least…

After driving 2-3 hours, we got into Saskatoon in time for a very late breakfast/normal time for lunch, after driving what must have been the long way through town, and not being able to find anywhere to eat. By the time we made the most of the free internet and our food, it was mid afternoon, and we were feeling tired again, plus we couldn’t get hold of anyone in Saskatoon, so we had a nap in the car in a park, before making dinner plans.

We had dinner and stayed the night with Tyler and Sara Stewart, another of Robert’s nephews, so we are slowly making our way through meeting the family! Turns out they’ve been to Wollongong before, and have also stayed with the Martins in Christchurch, so once again, it’s a small world among the friendly folk! Tyler and Sara have a ‘little’ boy who is 2, Tristan, although comes across as so much older, and a little baby who was less than 2 weeks old, Emerson – Tyler’s younger sister Rebecca also dropped by to say hello, which was great! We’d met her on the weekend in Weyburn, so had hoped to catch up.

Tyler and Sara, Tristan & Emerson

The next day we met up with Rebecca’s cousin Christine (this time not a Stewart), who we’d also met in Weyburn, and headed to the river in Saskatoon to see a little of the sights. There are beautiful fall colours near the river, and lots of colourful leaves falling from the trees as you watch, and it was pretty chilly… Saskatoon is apparently the city of bridges, with a high number of bridges per capita, and some were pretty cute and old bridges!

Christine & Nicole

Cute railway bridge in Saskatoon

It's fall! Leaves flying off the trees...

Awesome fall colours in a tree lines street

We met up with Rebecca for a delicious lunch at a cute little café called ‘Calories’, which is well known for its desserts, then headed on for the afternoon drive to Wainwright, where we stayed that night.

Out for lunch - Rebecca, Christine, Nicole, Lawrie

out for lunch - Rebecca, Chrstine

As it was Wednesday night, there was a gospel meeting in Wainwright, which was lovely, and we got to have supper with the workers beforehand, as well as some time with them afterwards and the next day! We stayed with the parents of Logan Truman (previously lived in Australia, and now lives in San Francisco where we stayed with him!), Terrill and Deb – it was so great to meet them both, and Logan’s sister Chelan too, and to see where Logan grew up! Chelan is a builder running her own business, and showed us through a couple of homes she has built/is in the process of building – they were pretty amazing inside!!

Saskachewan highway...

The workers - Adrienne and Carmine

Adrienne with her parents, also their for the night

The Trumans - Terrill, Deb & Chelan

Chelan

It turns out that the Trumans raised lynxes when the kids were young, and even raised a few kittens as tame! But that ended a long time ago, and now they have one of them (the non tame ones!) stuffed in their living room, and another pelt on the wall – they’re a decent size!

Lynx

They also have a bunch of horses (it used to be a ranch), and an awesome African Grey parrot called Harley (very similar to Mambo who we met in Colorado with Blake and Rachel!).

Harley

Although Lawrie insists that he hates cats, he felt in love with the adorable little kitten that the Trumans have, so I had to fight him to have a cuddle myself! We were pretty tempted to take it back with us… J

Lawrie's new favourite...

He was much cuter than this,,,