Thunder Bay, Dryden

Good day everyone! Jon and I had a long driving day. When we woke up this morning, we drove to The Bluffs Scenic Lookout which overlooked the city and the Sleeping Giant. The Sleeping Giant is a rock formation that is 11.25km long and 335m high and is named as such because it looks like a sleeping giant. It is commonly heard of in Ojibway Indian legends.

We then drove to Metro grocery store to get some food for the road. When we entered, there was a plate of oreo cookies and coffee. We were wondering if it was for everyone but a senior sitting by the plate told us to have some and we saw some workers take some so we took one each. We wound up buying bananas, milk, cheese sticks, and pizza buns.

As we were leaving, we took two more oreo cookies each. We were wondering why there were so many seniors in the store. There were more per cubic inch than in Kerrisdale which is saying a lot. As we were leaving, we heard some seniors ask if the school bus parked in the parking lot was theirs. At that moment we realized that the cookies were put out for the seniors. The seniors were having a group trip to the store and the cookies and coffee were there to welcome them. I felt bad for taking their cookies but Jon reassured me that it was fine because the workers at the store ate them too. Since we bought milk, we would take a bite of cookie then drink our carton of milk.

We drove to Dryden to fill up on gas. We went to Tim Hortons to buy hot chocolate.
Then we drove to Extra Foods to get gas. Since we got $2.03 in superbucks, we went to the store and bought milk, 3 packs of mini crunch bars and rainbow chips ahoy cookies. We wanted to have cookies and milk again. The 500ml carton of milk is good enough for 4 cookies in total. Jon finished his 2 and wanted another one but I told him that there wouldn’t be enough milk. So I offered to share my last cookie. When I was feeding him, he wouldn’t bite into it. He wanted me to let go and give him the remainder. Eventually he bit into it but as karma would have it, when he was drinking the milk, the milk spilt all over his shirt. He immediately said in a shrilling voice, “Clean me! Clean me!”

In Dryden, we saw a large moose. Since we forgot to take a picture in Moose Jaw, this will have to suffice.

We took a nap along the way. We are now in Winnipeg. We have a microwave and fridge in our room so we went to Sobey’s and bought some microwaveable dishes. Jon chose Salisbury steak and I chose lasagne. Jon liked his but mine was not good. We also had a Caesar salad as well. We’ll have an early night.

Good night!