As we pull away from the Hampton Inn in Bismarck, North Dakota, we all agree this is the worst hotel breakfast thus far. Not to say that the hotel was not great, because it was, and there was a variety of breakfast items, but nothing that was appealing. After hitting a roadblock on the I 94 west, we circle around a few times taking Dum Dum's bad advice, but in the end emerge victorious onto the alternate route. The scenery is simple, yet beautiful with low rol...

We left Leslie and Richard's at about 9:15 am and are stopping for a small fill up of the expensive stuff before heading to the border. Our plan is to head to Fargo and then take the nice divided highway to Seattle, before jumping on the ferry to Victoria. Luckily, I learned from Susan last night of another outlet mall in Seattle, and so I happily forsee another shopping excursion, which seems strange as I am really not a shopper. Speaking of strange, it seems...

I am pleased to report that the van is once again working well, having had the new radiator fan installed last night by James and Richard. We have had a busy morning running around getting last minute things for Holly, including new ballet slippers. Luckily, we found out that the therabande she needed is sold by the foot at Diamond Athletics, and so we were able to cross off the final remaining item on her needs list. We leave in the morning to continue on to ...

We are sitting in a reception area on the second floor of the beautiful Royal Winnipeg Ballet building waiting for registration to begin. A great opportunity for Holly, unfortunately she figured her ballet shoes should not make the trip from Nova Scotia to be with her here today - I hope they will be somewhat understanding until we can find some asap. It almost breaks my heart peeking into the large studio to see Holly all by herself looking scared while all t...

Just waiting on two people to finish getting ready before heading downstairs to launch a full out attack on the breakfast buffet, namely the fruit and yogurt bar. We should be at Leslie's tonight, barring any misbehaviour from the van who has been temporarily subdued by having one of it's two radiator fans yanked out to kill the racket. Having left the hotel and having secured gas, we start the last leg to Winnipeg at 8:30 am and, therefore, expect to arrive a...