Week ending May 30, 2013

On Tuesday, we arrived in Regina and got set up at Kings Acres, our usual RV park here.  Karen and Dominique came for supper.

The next day, we went to Karen`s  did laundry while John mowed front lawn and Joan mowed back lawn. After showering we picked up Dominique from school and headed back to the RV park to enjoy a roast chicken that our trusty slow cooker was busy preparing while we were away. 

The rest of the week was spent doing chores, and visiting with Karen and Dominique when they arrived after work/school. 

Saturday morning we picked the kids up to drop Dominique off at the legislative grounds so that she could participate in a 5 km walk, a fund raiser for cardiac care.  While she was walking we went to the Regina`s farmers market. As it is early in the season, there was not much available, but Joan picked up some delicious tomatoes and Karen got a bottle of Vodka from a local distillery.   We then moved a few blocks to walk down the Artists` Fair.  After wandering around about half of it, we received the phone call from Dominique that she was done her walk, so off we went to pick her up.  The afternoon was spent playing Wii in the trailer. We went to Smokin Ookees BBQ for dinner.   It was okay, but we suspect they do not compare to Brian and Kris`s BBQ pits that they have discovered on their trip through the southern states.

Sunday was our education day. We did a historic walk through a downtown area of Regina.  The day was cloudy and cool, actually a perfect day for a walk. We learned about early churches, schools and the various forms of house and apartment architecture.   

We lost the satellite signal in the trees, as the leaves were coming out, and the wind was bending the trees around, so we weren’t able to watch the NASCAR race in the afternoon.  

Our final day in Regina was spent doing laundry and putting together 2 Adirondack chairs for Karen.  We then treated Karen and Dominique to dinner out before going  back to the trailer to surf the web for future campgrounds.

Tuesday we packed up in light rain and drove across the QuÀppelle valley to York Lake Regional Park just south of Yorkton.  The park access road is one of the worst we been on, washboard and potholes.  The park is so well marked that the campground operator came out to the campground turnoff to meet us, as there are no signs once you get off the highway.  The operator is a very obliging fellow.  Its a small campground, about 30 sites,  of which we had our choice. The lake is pretty, but to date we haven’t blown up our new inflatable boat to try it out.  The weather is supposed to turn warm and sunny this week end, so hopefully we will try the boat.

There is a 4 km walk along the lake we planned on doing, but unfortunately it is still under water, as there is a still a lot of standing water this spring.   There is a new housing development along the lake so we walked along that area.