Riding the train to Edmonton

The transcanada train is a lot of fun, even if you get off before the best bit past the rockies. Stopping halfway in the elegant Winnipeg station for a few hours, the kids pose with Gayle, who looked after them in the observation car, and then Issie met a mountie. We visited the railroad museum, and the girls went off to the Forks shopping centre for a bit or retail therapy and sightseeing. The very Canadian named girls, Aurora and Mackenzie, looked after us in the dining car, we saw old grain elevators and new grain loading in Saskatchewan, sunsets, lakes, trees, farmland, cities and all manner of scenes passing the windows of the train. And a truck stuck under the loading bay at the station. Never a dull moment.