“The Canadian" arrives in Winnipeg around 10:00pm, 2 hours behind schedule and for the first time this trip we bike in the dark. It is 10:30pm by the time we arrive at the Sigurdsons house. Leanne, Jack and Lucy are waiting outside to greet me.
De rest of the family Leif, Eric and Kate are in Gimli and we will see them tomorrow.
Leanne has ordered a nice meal of sushi for a late evening meal.
Friday July 29
The Frost family arrives around 9:30am and all of us head for Gimli to the Sigurdsons cottage on the shore of Lake Winnipeg. It is there that we have the whole clan together for the first time.
The weather is great, the cousins play a lot on the beach and in the water and the adults have a lots of fun with Leif's newly acquired Sea-Do and with his Hoby craft (kayak with sail).
Saturday July 30
This weekend the Icelandic community in Gimli celebrates the Icelandic Independence from Denmark. There is a fair in town and a good display of fireworks in the evening that we watch from the beach at the cottage.
Sunday August 1
Before we know it it is Sunday afternoon and we drive to Winnipeg where we spend the last evening together at the Sigurdsons house.
Monday August 2
Suzanne, Matt and Julia leave early Monday morning for Toronto.
Lucy and I are staying for another week and we are fortunate to enjoy another weekend in Gimli with Leanne, Leif and the kids.
Tuesday August 9
In the evening Bob and I leave for the train station, a 3.5km bike ride where we board “the Canadian" for Toronto departing Winnipeg at 11:30pm.
Lucy flies back to Halifax the next day.
Friday August 12
We arrive at the Halifax station at 6pm and bike the last 17km of this trip to our house on Greenmount Drive where we arrive at 8pm.
