We're Comin' Home!!!

Wow! What a journey!

We left Itasca State Park Friday morning at 11:00 and drove all day, crossing the border at 4:30 p.m. and getting to Regina for the night at 8:00 p.m. I was tired, but relieved to be back on my own country's soil. Funny, eh? There's such subtle differences between the two countries, yet it just feels good to be home again. Well, for me, it was nice to be seeing 'kilometre' signs again rather than 'miles'. The problem was that none of the signs had 'miles' behind the number, so I kept thinking kilometres in my head and then wondered why destinations were taking so long to get to.


Interesting side note....in Wisconsin, while driving on the highway, I noticed a bus a ways ahead of me and mentioned to Deon that it looked like an ETS (Edmonton Transit System) bus. A few minutes later we pull up to pass it, and it was just that!! So weird...we ended up meeting this bus a few more times at stops in Wisconsin and North Dakota. I talked to the driver and he indicated Edmonton was getting a fleet of about 40 new buses, and this was one of them.


The Regina hostel is nicely situated in the downtown area, just 2 blocks away from the large park areas next to the river, with their provinces legislature on the opposite side of the river. It was beautiful weather, so we enjoyed a walk and played some frisbee yet that night.




Saturday morning was bright and beauiful, and I wanted some exercise in before driving HOME!! Nathan & I went back to the park, and, sticking with tradition on this trip, Nathan led me in some yoga & strength exercises.

We hit the road at 10:00 and we're pretty excited to be on the homeward stretch. The boys travelled very well :), we finished our Odyssey series -- Novacom, talked about all the things we did and saw, and counted down the kilometres.

Oh yeah, and we passed the ETS bus yet again near Lloyminster...

Home again at 5:30 pm -- just in time for a home cooked meal by my hubby. It felt so good to make it and to see him again.

Thank you to everyone who prayed for safe travels for us...we really were blessed with no breakdowns and generally no troubles the whole time! If ever you think about what you should do with your family...I would highly recommend seeing our country with them. No history lesson will ever do justice in comparison to seeing it all in person!