I wasn't working on Friday, Saturday or the Sunday and believe me when you work in retail you would understand this is a very rare occasion indeed.  What better way to celebrate, than a Road Trip.  The Friday was a bit grim to start with but towards the end of the day the sun decided to make an appearance.

I packed my bag waited for Neil to come home, we had some tea and decided to set off.  As we did set off so late we stopped at Lloydminster, probally one of the worst Best Westerns ever, may I just add.  Lloyminster is in both Saskatewan and Alberta.  Addresses east of 50th Ave are in Saskatewan and addresses west of 50th Ave are in Alberta.

With a fresh day ahead of us we headed straight for Saskatoon.  We hadn't booked anything and headed straight for the Travel Lodge outside of the city.  When they stated $175 we turned round and headed for the door, with a "Good Luck" from the girl at the desk.  Will we be needing it then, we started to wonder.  We looked around the outside of the Travel Lodge and noticed a Sandman.

We got to reception and the girl stated that they had a suite with a couch, to be honest she made it sound very expensive.  I said "Oh no thanks" but when she stated the $135 I was pleasantly surprised and said we would take it.

We dumped our bags and headed for Saskatoon. 

One of the predominant buildings is the Delta Beesborough Hotel, it was built by the Canadian National Railway from 1928 to 1932.  It was such an amazing building.

The cities Riverside walk, very much like Edmonton.

The last thing I was expecting to see was a London Bus, it was in fact a Takeaway.  I was thinking maybe Fish 'n' chips but no!

The other building of interest was the Mendel Art Gallery.  Free of charge to get in and we like free.  Most of the paintings were landscapes and very pretty I wish I could have used my camera but I wasn't allowed.  The Artist was Dorothy Knowles and was born in Saskatewan. 

The Art Gallery had another section of the gallery which was called "don't tell me your dreams" to be honest it was a little odd.   Apparently the artist Patrick Traer was diagnosed with sleep apnea and the exhibit is all based on him listening to other peoples dreams.  As the Art Gallery states it's an exhibition of Darkness, consisting of photographs, audio, drawing and embroidery.   To be honest it was enough to give someone a nightmare not dreams!

This is a little conservatory they have on the other side of the gallery.

Saskatoon very much reminded me of Old Strathcona in Edmonton.  The buildings were amazing, I very much enjoyed walking around.

The Sunday was spent driving back home, and oh my god was that a long drive.  We decided to go a different route home and it was boring.  Field, tree, cattle, Field, tree, cattle it was like on of the Scooby Doo cartoons where you see the same thing over and over.

You might see a grain store if your lucky.

Oh and don't forget the long striaght road ahead.

This is what happens when you are bored, take pictures of yourself because there really isn't much else to take a picture of.

I don't think we will be heading back to our next door neighbour Saskatchewan again, we like our other British Columbia better.

There's still plenty of Alberta to do as well before we start going round asking for sugar again.  Time spent way from Edmonton makes me realise how much I love the place.