We’ve spent days visiting Swift Current, Moose Jaw, Holdfast, Liberty, Stalwart and Batoche. I love the names of these places. It’s easy to think about the old days here. And about the stuff we learned at school that happened here in the ‘wild west’, even though we are travelling east. By the time the Indians found out they were somebody’s enemies they were already beaten! Sidney sits in the car reading magazines about boys and make-up and Sam sits in the car just kind of humming, but I love to wander around looking at it all. Someone is always telling me to get back into the car ‘cause it’s time to go and I can’t believe it because it feels like I’ve only been there for a few minutes. I try to imagine what it would have been like when this place was being lived in by Indians and getting discovered by white people. How can you discover a place that other people are already living in? That’s something I don’t really understand but teachers never answer those kinds of questions. There are forts and places where the Hudson’s Bay Company came, and places where everyone fought and talked and made peace. Some of it looks like it could have happened yesterday, but then if it wasn’t for cars and houses with TV aerials this whole place looks like it did for hundreds of years I bet.
We’re staying in Saskatoon tonight, which has a river and trees. I never thought having a river and trees would look so good.
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