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Chasing the moose in Moose Jaw

Okay not really...sadly they did have a beautiful sculpture of a family of moose in Moose Jaw's lovely Crescent Park downtown but it was always being vandalized so now it sits in storage.  How terrible is that... The name Moose Jaw isn't really the jaw of a moose but comes from a Cree name for the place, moscâstani-sîpiy, meaning “a warm place by the river”. The first two syllables, moscâ-, sound remarkably like “moose jaw”.   Or it could refer to the shape of the Moose Jaw river which resembles a moose jaw. Hey I looked it up for this blog post because I didn't know either!  Moose Jaw is a city of about 33,000 and lies 77 km west of my "resting place" of Regina, Saskatchewan.  It has turned into quite a little tourist town now that they have "discovered" tunnels that were supposedly used by Al Capone (guess there was a direct railway from Chicago up to Moose Jaw) and also tunnels used by Chinese employees of the local laundrys.  These were w

Being a tourist in southern Saskatchewan

I just had my long time friend Darlene from Vancouver (originally Winnipeg) staying with me and I got to be a tourist in my own home town and surrounding area - always fun.  And hey, I am desperate to play tourist! I recently bought myself a new camera - a Panasonic Lumix - only mine is turquoise blue. (my favourite colour!)  I have been having fun playing with it.  Still working on the quirks on the zoom lens; not feelin' the love on that part of it but it could be me.  We walked around beautiful Wascana Lake which is a stone's throw from my home..lucky lucky me...I never ever get tired of walking in this park. This fountain was originally in London's Trafalgar Square! Then we went to Regina Beach, walked along the old railway bed trail for about an hour and then had fish and chips at the local iconic Blue Bird Cafe.   Along the trail A lovely walk! We didn't put our toes in Far from the best I've had but it will do A R