Day #5- Winnipeg to Riding Mountain Provincial Park

Day 5- Winnipeg to Riding Mountain Provincial Park

The drive to the campground was only 2.5-3 hours long so we spent the morning and early afternoon in Winnipeg. The kids went swimming at the hotel while Amma went for a run. Then we checked out and walked around. We stopped at the food trucks for lunch, Maya got a delicious “sweet and heat” grilled cheese that had mango salsa and jalapeños! Continuing to the legislative building and walked inside, it was all marble and stone, beautiful and stunning! At the base the stairs inside, there were two huge bison statues made of stone.

We continued past the Louis Riel statue, founder of Manitoba, where the kids spent time sliding down the railings!  We walked over to Baked Expectations, a cake shop, yummy! The highlight was Jaida’s Tia Maria cake, made of chocolate cookies and whipped cream!

On the way out of town, we stopped at the Assiniboine Zoo to see the Winnie-the-bear statue and headed to Riding Mountain PP. There were lots of fields of yellow canola and many long trains as well as grain elevators. Before the campground, we stopped at the giant elk statue in Onanole.

The campground has many bear warnings and while entering there was a bear trap! Don’t worry, we didn’t see any.  We had our first official “homemade” camping dinner of cheesy arribiata tomato sauce pasta! It was also our first campfire! We had s’mores and Natasha played the guitar for us!

We hit the 2500km into our trip!