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Before we had finalized plans and the route for this Cross-Canada trip we hoped that we could make it to Panorama Amethyst Mine near Thunder Bay by October 15th when it closed. If you have been following this blog you will know that our route has changed numerous times and when we were planning our route home we realized it just was not possible to get to Thunder Bay by October 15th. If we did rush, we would have had to miss out on many of the sites and sounds of the maritimes and seriously, whenever again will we have to time or chance to take a trip like we have across the country?
While we were in Thunder Bay the next best thing for us was to go the the Amethyst gift store which was in Thunder Bay and well..sort of on our way out of town ;)
There Alexander picked up some Amethyst. The store owner (who also runs the mine) cut us a deal on a few of the Amethyst pieces, but either way we would love to come back at some point to see, and dig up our very own Amethyst!
Just outside Thunder Bay, as we headed west, we knew that we could find Kakabeka Falls. It was there we stopped to see some more impressive water falls.
These were probably the most impressive of all of the ones we have seen. It is known by most visitors as the "Niagra of the North"--!
We walked along the boardwalk, across the river, and back the other way to the falls to get a view from almost all angles.
When we had had enough of the impressiveness of the falls we decided to head back to the car. By that time it was already late morning and we realized we had really better get on the road so that we make it to Winnipeg for the rest of the day.
and then we drove.
We arrived in Winnipeg and decided to hang out near the outskirts of the city as we had not heard from Alexander's family who was putting us up for the evening. We got in touch with them and then headed to there place.
We visited for a while and then went downstairs and watched Blood Diamond with everyone and then called it a night. We had changed yet another time zone without really realizing it, but by the time we had made it to bed it was midnight Manitoba time (1am according to our brain) so we were exhausted.!!
Good-night from Winnipeg! We are almost home....!
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