Day 42 Museums, Silos and Churchs..

A really bad sleep, so really have to push myself to get going…but the bonus was our little Brekky this morning as part of our accommodation at the motel….it was great small English muffin with cheese, egg and bacon……just heat in our room microwave it was perfect… plus, yogurt, an apple, porridge for the microwave and a cereal snack…pretty good for what we paid… the porridge will do for another morning when no brekky supplied!
So packed and off we set, due to little sleep I did slept a lot, John said I slept for 45 mins that’s a lot for me…

Morning tea was at Saskatoon Remai Modern Museum building …..French Toast with berries yummm.
A quick look around the river, then the modern buildings around where we are and some of Downtown with a few older buildings, a Stunning Old bridge that we walked onto ….this one we were on built 1907 from here we could see 3 others… all up it has 80 bridges 😳🤪🤔The City maintains 80 Bridges and Structures, which consist of the following; 8 Bridges (the new Traffic Bridge and Chief Mistawasis Bridge are maintained by Graham Commuter Partners) 49 Overpasses. 24 Pedestrian Crossings. ….Next to the bridges where we were at the river were massive glass mirrored modern buildings near the river…to be honest they look very, very new….we didn’t have time to see the modern museum….so set off on foot to see more of the Downtown area…but sadly my tummy had issues with the berry french toast so had to find a loo not easy…. Found one in a massive shopping centre, did note their eatery in the shopping centre had much better food shops on offer than ours! Better choice and probably more healthy!! Back to the car then set off to our next stop…….before we left I asked John to drive around the Main Street… so I could get a quick pic of Delta Bessborough Bestboro Hotel built in 1935 ….. its for the rich and famous which apparently Tim and Jess must be, I found out after we were there they had booked into this hotel…lucky them…plus a few other buildings that looked like history was walking out it’s front doors….

Then off we hit the Hwy making it to Dafoe for lunch it was on a cross roads leading north, south, east and west…it also looked pretty new…..our massive meal all the extras was just too much to handle.,.they were insulted I didn’t have much, besides the fact the gravy tasting odd there was just too, too ,much for this little duck…
Then off again up the Hwy we were blown away when we came across an old abandoned Church that had a very Russian look…. I mentioned to John I bet it’s from the Ukrainian’s….I had noticed as we have been travelling at lot of places appeals for the Ukrainian…. So I worked out that there must be a big Ukrainian community in Canada…. sadly this little beauty has been vandalised… such a little treasure of a bygone era now forgotten….Here today gone tomorrow really comes home when you see sights like this…The front door was falling off but someone had blocked up the entrance, so I headed out back and yep in luck the back door was open so I could go inside…so sad to see the desecration inside what would once upon a time been a little grand… just after we took off we saw another similar church up a country road but we didn’t have time to investigate 😢! So sadly it would have been amazing to see another one…from a distance it looked intact but we were quite a distance away as you can see by the pics…they aren’t they best!

We had on this Hwy passed heaps of Roads leading to a massive lake Big Quill Lake …John thought he was coming to the ocean for a minute… apparently it went for 80ks according to the signs I saw… also supposed to be a huge bird 🦅 watching area…all the little communities along the Hwy had roads leading down to the lake… plus lots of little lakes and waterholes dotted in amongst the crops growing along the prairie….

As we headed along the Hwy we came to a well known town 😆😆😆 Theodore, yep Theodore was a little smaller than ours but also a big grain facility like ours, but no river here 🤔! Plus I noticed driving into Yorkton a Gladstone Road familiar names making us feel at home!

The count of animals we saw today were 😢😢😢😢Dead 2x coyote, 1x deer,1 x prairie dog who committed huri curi even though John tried to swerve out of his way… 2x very much alive badgers very cute badgers…Lots if Moose and Elk signs but none spotted….

We made it to Yorkton, our accommodation is very basic, but comfortable and bonus a bigger fridge…and bigger freezer. No kettle like last night but we can’t have everything….

We ordered Chinese takeout…to be honest the meal was horrible except the fried rice…massive, massive fat spring rolls…very odd…Mongolian Lamb was very odd indeed…

Been a big day lots of Ks glad for sleep tonight I can tell you…Read more