Title: Sep 24, 2004

September 24, 2004 -

Today was tour Winnipeg day. Started off by going to the Royal Canadian Mint for a tour this morning. (They are very uptight - don't allow you to take samples or pictures). The Winnipeg Mint is responsible for producing all of the Canadian coins in circulation, plus coins from over 60 other countries. They can produce 15,000,000 coins per day.

This afternoon we went to "The Forks" - traditional meeting place at the junction of the Assiniboine and Red Rivers. We also walked across a new footbridge to St. Boniface to see the cathedral and the St. Boniface museum. The museum was dedicated primarily to Louis Riel, and was housed in the old Grey Nun's residence. It was interesting for the kids to see people speaking English and French - with people switching back and forth so easily.

We headed back across the bridge to the Manitoba Children's Museum - where the kids played for a couple of hours. It appears to have gone through a really hard summer - as some of the exhibits were not working the way it was supposed to - but were interesting none the less.