Winnipeg, eh?

OK, sorry for the delay in posting. I'm about a week behind now. Hope y'all enjoyed the little intermission before I could update this.

So I left Sioux Falls and drove north heading to Canada. The weather was terrible. The terrain was flat as far as the eye could see, and you could see rain falling on the left coming closer and closer until it hit excactly where I was driving. It was the first time I've ever seen lightning go horizontally acrosss, parallel to the ground! Usually it's from the sky down to the ground. I dunno how to explain it but I guess I must have been driving really close to where it struck.

Entering the border into Canada, everyone else seemed to just get waved through, but not me! They asked me a ton of questions: "Is it your first time in Canada? Where are you headed? Where did you come from? Who are you visiting? etc. etc. etc." Then they took me aside and searched every inch of my car! Of course they didn't find anything. An hour later they let me go and I arrive in Winnipeg around 10 pm. (Can't say I blame 'em: brown guy driving a beamer with California plates, arriving at 9 pm saying he's visiting Canada for the first time and going to Winnipeg! Not Vancouver, Toronto, or Montreal, but Winnipeg. I guess I must have looked suspicious.)

So I spend the weekend with one of my best friends and his family (Thanks Dot and Eve for letting me visit, and thanks for letting me stay in your room Migs!) Their son Migo is my godson. Nice relaxing family weekend. Bear "exhibit" down Broadway, downtown Winnipeg:

Being silly with Migo in front of the State Capitol:

Artsy partsy photograph of a footbridge, some pictures taken at St Boniface church, and at a farm outside town where we had a bonfire and waited to see if the Northern Lights would come out that night. Unfortunately, it didn't.

Kinda before and after shots of the North American plains: Indian tepees and bison hides replaced by white man's barns and tractors.

GQ pose in urban Winnipeg :)