TUESDAY Day 1

Well here it is the first day of of our trip. We left at 5:10 this morning and we have been in N.D. For quite a few miles now.  We are just driving through Devil's Lake and you should see the size of it.  Huge.  So much water.

We will reach Canada tonight.  We are traveling West to Minot N.D. and then North to 

Estevan SASK.  We are probably driving north tomorrow to a hunting buddy of Jim's, a John Nakanechny, pronounced knock-ka-nech-née.  He is Ukrainian.  I think my friend Sharon Kuubits is also Ukrainian.  I will check.  Jim started hunted up here in 1070.  We will be heading for Plenty SASK tomorrow and will spend 2 or 3 nights there.  Jim is going to show me a Hutterite colony.  Springwater Colony.  When Jim hunted up here they would give them the geese.  They were originally German. 

   I Am Hutterite - News - The Prince Albert Daily 
Herald

www.paherald.sk.ca/Local/News/2012-03-21/article.../I-Am-Hutterite/1

Mar 21, 2012 - She read excerpts from her childhood in Fairholme Hutterite Colony near ....Saskatchewan Green trounces Manitoba 20-2 in Canada Cup  ...

Well this is a link which is pretty interesting.

Well I just talked to my friend Dede who went through open heart surgery last week and is on the road to recovery.  Wow, I can't even imagine what she went through being cut from sternum to throat.  
She sure has been in my prayers.

We just gassed up in Minot and it is 1pm.

Will add more later.

I had a wonderful family reunion with Mark and Jean, it is too fun getting to know her better and more about her girls Natasha and Ashley.  It is so wonderful that she and Mark have found each other.    
I love the connection that her late husband was our Neva's brother.  I love keeping it in the family.

Heidi, Pat and their daughter Erin with her ladorable little boy Jackson were there.

Mac and Laura, Huope and Hudson, Alexis, River and Autumn and of course wonderful Skye.

We all made meals and we played lots of games and drank lots of beer.  Jim and I had a wonderful time and the guys got out fishing thanks to Mac brining his boat.