- Thursday, June 18th, 2009 -

Today's Trip:  71km
Total Trip:  1808km

We all slept in a wee bit today.  It being a shorter trip today, I was anticipating a quick commute to Regina, SK.  I had a coffee with Suzi at the local Tim Horton's this morning.  Said good bye to her and wished her well on her journey.  She is spending an extra day in Moose Jaw today to do some sightseeing, though from what I gather it has been raining for most of the day. 

I actually left Moose Jaw at 8:30AM.  I thought I would have had a West wind, though it turned out to be a North wind which slowed my cycling to 20 km/hr.  The traffic was heavier today; there seemed to be more sleeping deer on the side of the road. 

With the bike Dan bought yesterday, Jenn was able to ride with me for some time.  Dan and Jenn switched from riding the bike and car a few times; Dan ended up riding into Regina with me. 

We stopped to take a picture at the 'Welcome to Regina' sign.  Upon entering Regina, we still had no place to stay tonight.  There is a farm show taking place here this week and every hotel room is booked solid.  We ended up calling a few hotels that were listed at the Information Center; we found ourselves in a downtown hotel.  You'll know what I think of the place, if I happen to jump out my window that's missing a screen -- it sure promotes air flow, though! 

We had supper at Montana's and went to see a movie at the local cheap-seats, 'I Love You, Man'.  When we entered the theatre, there were 3 other people already seated.  We picked out great seats, and then a unique group of locals sat directly in front of us even though there were over 100 seats to choose from!  In the end, I don't think they fully understood the movie, though there wasn't much to understand. 

Getting tired, going to call it an early night.  I plan on sleeping in again as tomorrow is my last scheduled Rest Day.  I plan on going to the Royal Saskatchewan Museum which I have not been to since I was 12 years old on a school field trip. 

I got distracted from writing this blog when I flipped through the channels, coming across a News Report about a tornado in Nebraska.

I'm tired.  Good night.

-D'Arcy

 

PS.  Internet is very weak where we are; there is not enough signal strength to upload all of our pictures, so Dan will do that when we have a better internet connection.