ACCRT Days 6 and 7

We are finally nearing the end of the road trip. It was long, exciting and very tiring. Day 6 was a short drive. Winnipeg to Regina. It was only about 5.5 hours so we decided to sleep in a bit and catch up on our rest.

Breakfast in Winnipeg was the first hot breakfast we had had since the trip had started. I had French Toast. I was wonderful but again I just couldn’t eat very much.

As the day went on things started to become flatter and flatter.

There was also MacDonald’s coffee this morning too – but just coffee.

More pictures…

We stopped in Brandon, Manitoba for lunch. I had a ceaser salad and chicken sandwich for lunch.

Heading into Saskatchewan is where we got some good pictures of how flat this area really is.

 

Around 2:00pm local time we finally hit the border.

While driving into Regina we hit a rain storm. We could see it miles before we drove into it.

It was a huge rain storm but it only lasted for about 15 mins.

Then there was sun again driving into Regina.

Once we reached our hotel we found out we had a beautiful room with a king sized bed and lots of space.

Then we showered and headed out to downtown Regina.

Being from the Maritimes we figured the best way to celebrate being in the prairies was to go to Red Lobster – I know, I know.

We both got the Shrimp Trio.

I got mine with potatoes and Matt got fries.

It was good but huge. After I finished I still had tons left on my plate.

After dinner we decided to get cultured and we hit up the Art Gallery.

Since we can’t take pictures inside I can’t show you all the wonderful art we saw.

After that we headed back to the hotel for a good night’s sleep before our last day on the road.

ACCRT day 7 is pretty uneventful. This was the worst day of my stomach flu and I didn’t eat much, slept most of the trip and didn’t take any pictures.

Most of my food intake for the day included popsicles and chicken soup when we arrived in Calgary. It was about and 7 hour drive and it couldn’t happen quick enough. I was tired of the prairies, tired of the car and tired of eating out. All I wanted was our new apartment, our stuff back and some real, cooked food.

We arrived in Calgary 5pm local time, met with our landlord to see the apartment, emptied our car, when for a quick visit with my step-brother and his family and made a trip to the grocery store.

We were tired and happy to finally be in our new home.

That’s all the blogging I’m going to do for today but tomorrow will be exciting. I’ll post some pictures of our new apartment and I have my first giveaway coming up.

I’m currently sitting here while the movers unpack out stuff so there’s lots to show you and blog about. As well, I’m very excited to get back to a healthy lifestyle which includes some yummy eats and my first trip to the gym here in Calgary.

I’ll leave you with one more kitty pictures. This is during Day 6 when Charlie decided he would jam himself in between my seat and the car door.

~ Katie :)

ACCRT Days 4 and 5

So I’m super behind on my blogging right now. The end of the trip brought many things including a bit of the stomach flu and I just wasn’t up for blogging. I’m going to do two quick recaps of the last four days and post some pictures.

Day 4 of ACCRT was the trip from Sault Ste. Marie to Thunder Bay. Jaime had commented earlier that she had hoped we had made it to the waterfront in Sault Ste. Marie because it was beautiful. Unfortunately, with the brake problems from day 3 and the long drive we had we didn’t arrive from the hotel until 9 pm, we were exhausted and just didn’t have the energy to go out.

Day 4 was the most beautiful drive we had but also the worst day for me. I was uncomfortable, my body was getting sore from driving and I was getting a touch of the stomach flu. Also, to top it all off our camera battery died so we didn’t get very many pictures even thought we could have taken pictures all day long.

My eats of day 4 are un-photographed due to the lack of battery but I do know there was a salad for lunch and maybe a sub for dinner?? Not sure about dinner, without the pictures it’s all starting to blur together.

The drive to Thunder Bay is through the mountains beside Lake Superior and it gorgeous. Here are a few pictures we took before the battery died:

The mountains were so high up and the clouds were so low that we were driving right through them.

Please don’t might the dirty windshield. We were finally able to find a car wash in Thunder Bay.

A few more of Lake Superior from a ‘scenic lookout’

Day 5 of the trip was much better in terms of driving. I had done some yoga when arriving at the hotel in Thunder Bay so I was able to stretch out my body a little and was feeling a lot less sore. I was still having stomach problems but it was coming and going throughout the day.

Breakfast started with a coffee from MacDonald’s.

And two hash browns.

The drive through the rest of Ontario really started to flatten out during this time.

And the trees started to thin out.

Around lunch we hit Kenora and grabbed MacDonald’s (again). I’m not a big fan of it but there wasn’t much to choose from and since my belly was still upset I figured I’d just have a little bit of something so I really didn’t care what it was.

I had a couple of nuggets.

And a few fries.

Just after leaving Kenora we hit the Manitoba border. Too bad the picture didn’t turn out.

Here where things started to really flatten out.

Once we arrived in Winnipeg we dropped off our stuff at the hotel and headed to what we heard was the ‘must see’ of Winnipeg: The Forks. This is the place that the Red River and the Assiniboine River meet.

Here are some pictures.

This is a pedestrian only bridge going over the river.

In the center of the bridge is a restaurant in the centre of the bridge where we ate dinner.

 

Here was our view while we were eating.

This was the second restaurant that had a vehicle hanging from its ceiling.

 

When deciding what to order for dinner I was feeling better (or I thought I was) so I decided on chicken strips and fries. I knew our trip was almost over and I was going back to healthy eating so I made my fries a poutine.

BIG MISTAKE.

Just looking at my dinner makes me feel gross. I didn’t even eat any of the poutine and just some of the chicken. I was also wrong about feeling better (this happened a couple of times on the trip) and this dinner just made my stomach worse.

After dinner we headed back to the hotel for the night.

I’m going to leave you with a picture of Charlie enjoying another hotel room.

~ Katie :)