Friday morning was Dominique's graduation exercises.
The entire program
took about 2 1/2 hours. She had marks high enough to get a 2,000.00 scholarship,
that will be a big help towards her university tuition. After the program we
went out for lunch then stopped by Peoples Jewelers to pick up an angel
necklace she had chosen as a grad gift.
We hate to flog a dead horse, but how wet is the campground this year? We had some neighbours pull in and after levelling their trailer they drove off. Odd, we thought, but people do things in different orders. They came back in short order with brand new rubber boots. Aha - In order to plug in his utilities he had to wade through a fairly deep puddle. The ducks are truly loving this weather.
Saturday morning we stopped by the Regina farmers market. One of the vendors is a garlic grower from Yorkton that we had discovered last year when we stayed in the Yorkton area. She had excellent garlic. However, she was not in attendance this week, just our luck. We then headed back to the East end of Regina. While Joan went for a haircut John stopped by the bank and Bulk Barn. Karen and Dominique came over mid- afternoon and we played a game of Monopoly. Karen acted as banker and won the game handily.
Sunday was a rainy, rainy day. We watched a duck swimming by the fence behind the trailer
while Karen and Dominique dried out their basement, since the sump pump hadn't come on when the water rose. Then they came out to the trailer, had dinner and we had a monopoly rematch. John and I must be aging because again we lost. This time Dominique was the winner.
Monday we moved to Assiniboia. A rainy morning, with Joan wading up to her ankles in order to unplug the electricity (no rubber boots). By the time we arrived in Assiniboia the rain had become a drizzle. Luckily we were heading west from Regina as numerous highways to the east were flooded. Thanks to Joan’s sister Carol and her husband, we had a free campsite on the mobile home lot next to them. They BBQ'd and we visited with all their family.
On July 1st after stuffing a turkey and putting it in the oven David, Carol John and Joan headed out to St. Victor to a petroglyph site that David is taking care of.
On the way back we stopped a watched a mother antelope
laying in the field watching her young that was probably hidden in the tall grass close
by.
On Wednesday while Dave was working, Carol , John and Joan went to the Shurniak Art Gallery, which has some very interesting paintings. Bill Shurniak was born in Limerick, nearby, and worked for CIBC in domestic and international posts in Canada, Jamaica and Hong Kong, where he collected art of many local Saskatchewan artists, as well as international artists.
Thursday we left with Lac Pelletier as our destination. We gave them a call once we got fairly close. No luck with a site for the next four nights, to carry us through the weekend, so we carried on to Eagle Valley, a campground/rv park along #1. On our way we stopped in at a favourite stop of ours, "No. 1 Scoop" at Tompkins. It is a funky little ice cream stop that has some of the most unusual ice cream flavours. We had heard that it had closed, but much to our delight it was still up and running. Over the years this has become a break stop on our trips along this stretch of the Trans Canada highway.
We got set up in the campground, and after having supper, succeeded to get a satellite signal on the second attempt of the day, so can now happily stay for 4 days.
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