Google'd

I was super bored trying to figure out how to do B+ Trees for databases in the library so I figured I'd Google myself. I found three pictures of myself. This one I thought was pretty cool. It was back in '99 or 2000.

I was safe by the way (according to the caption on the photo). Yeah, I was pretty good....

I also found a website that had states for me when I played football. It says I was 5'5" and 125 lbs. I don't think that was right.

The site:

Oh Canada!

Across the Canada/US border is a quaint town called Boissevain.  It is very small but had a turtle.

Here....let me get closer....

He was pretty funny to see.  Near him was a park, Sod House, museum and a miniature railroad museum. 

Here is the Sod House. 

The really fun thing to see in Boissevain though were the murals that were on so many of the buildings in town!  I wish we had taken the walking tour to see all of them.  Another interesting sight were the Amish or Mennonites in town.  We weren't really sure what they were since we just caught glimpses of them before we left.

Another park in town.

We traveled on a 2 lane highway (highway 13) across Canada and spent the night in Weyburn, SK.  We found a restaurant called El Rancho to eat at since we all know how dad loves his Mexican food.  Oh did we laugh when we found out it was a steakhouse!  Not one Mexican item on the menu!  It was good though! 

International Peace Gardens part 2

The flower clock.   

Leaving the International Peace Gardens.  Turn to your left, you head to Canada.  Turn to your right, you head to North Dakota.  We turned to our left.

International Peace Gardens

The Peace Gardens were not exactly what we thought they would be.  Dad and I were expecting alot of different flower gardens everywhere.  There was a one way drive into the Gardens.  We stopped at the Game Warden's museum.  I think it is the only one in the world.  :)

Look closely at the picture below and you can see the US/Canada border.  It goes on and on!



The cacti were a gift from a man who had grown them for years and donated them to the Gardens.

The main attraction was walking this long stretch up to the towers that you see in the background.  The water divides the 2 borders of the countries.

This is what you see when you turn the other way.

Pieces from the 9/11 tragedy.  We happened to be there a couple of days before the 10 year anniversary of the event.  A Canadian news crew was there asking to interview people for a special they were putting together.  We forgot to look for it when we got home on their website.

In the Peace Garden chapel, the walls were covered with different sayings from people around the world.  Thoughts and sayings that were uplifting.  It was nice walking around the chapel reading each quote.

At the Peace Towers looking back from where we came.

On our way to Canada

After spending the week with the Redi employees in Minot, ND, we decided to head to Canada just so we could get another stamp in our passports (we didn't get stamped!).  We had heard that the Peace Gardens were pretty and we should see them.  These pictures show some of the things we saw on our way to the border.

Did you know that the center of North America was in ND?!

Rugby looked like a cute town but we didn't stop too long....just grabbed a few pics of the area.  This sculpture had to do with the Northern Lights.  The tall tower in the background is part of a western town attraction.

North Dakota had alot of sunflower fields.  It was fun when we saw the big ones though we heard that with the wet spring these weren't near as big as they usually were in past summers.