A lady reporter and male photographer from the local paper came around and asked to interview us. Hazel told her that Rick would be our spokesperson and he did a fine job. It will be interesting to see what comes up in the paper. Irene & I had signed up for a ride to Regina which was to leave at 2 pm and return around 10 pm.
The bikes were lining up by 1:30 pm so when there were about a dozen bikes ready we would leave. There were around 36 bikes going on the ride so they wanted to split us up into about 3 groups. For some unknown reason as our first group was pulling out not everyone seemed to follow and we only had 7 in our group, but everyone did get there okay.
"So you think you can get us to pay!"
Our first stop was a visit to the Royal Saskatchewan Museum of Life Sciences, First Nations and Earth Sciences. It was about an hour stop and was very interesting.
The exhibits were well done and impressive. Now it was onto the important stuff DINNER!! We went to the Classic Buffet and it was excellent, the organizers had pre set it up that we were coming and they had us all in a seperate room. There was a bit of confusion to where it was as the fellow leading the ride had never been there before, so I keyed it into our GPS and it took us there with no problem. After the dinner we went to the RCMP Heritage Center to watch the Sunset Ceremony and visit the Heritage Center. As we pulled into the parking lot we could see a STORM coming and everyone ran for inside. Before we could even get into the building LIGHTNING was hitting REAL CLOSE as there was no time between it and the thunder, needless to say the 45 minute outdoor Sunset Ceremony was cancelled.
Oh well that happens so we we did our tour of the Heritage Display.
The storm was pounding down outside as we could hear it even over the video we were watching in the auditorium. We were there for about 1 1/2 hours and when it looked like it had passed by we hopped onto the bikes and headed back to camp. We were lucky to have been able to ride back dry. Once more the GPS did its job and found us the quickest way back. Back at camp it was great to see that Mark and Willy had checked out the tents and put in the stuff that could get wet or blown away. I had laundry out and it was dry and in our tent. A big thanks to them!
As we are sitting here writing this blog in the early a.m. once again the thunder is rolling! Another day of mixed weather is coming up. Being bikers we grin and bear it or roll with the punches.
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