Last night in Saskatoon, Canada I saw Great Big Sea – they were fantastic!
If you ever get a chance to see these guys don’t miss it. They do everything from sing traditional folk songs acapella to light folk-influenced rock – it was a really, really good show!
I’m jealous Gary! They are one of my favorite bands and I still have not seen them live yet. Glad you enjoyed yourself! Thanks for sharing
Cheryl
Lucky you! I really enjoy that band. I’ve been through Saskatoon, too-- are you going to the University of Saskatchewan? Driving through Saskatchewan is deadly, because it’s soo flat. You could knock over a glass of water and watch it roll to the horizon! I heard they actually built a hill in Regina to combat depression.
My husband spent two years in Manitoba and Saskatchewan. He said they told all sorts of jokes there about the flatness of the land…one of them was “Winnipeg is the only place where you can watch your dog run away for three days straight”
On 2002-10-02 11:57, thurlowe wrote:
Lucky you! I really enjoy that band. I’ve been through Saskatoon, too-- are you going to the University of Saskatchewan? Driving through Saskatchewan is deadly, because it’s soo flat. You could knock over a glass of water and watch it roll to the horizon! I heard they actually built a hill in Regina to combat depression.
I graduated from the U of S with a couple of degrees but I don’t currently attend it. I live and work in Saskatoon.
Yes, south-central Saskatchewan is incredibly flat. Most people who live here or visit here only see that part of the province. But, if you go up North its an entirely different place. The Precambrian Shield area around Lac La Ronge was carved out of bedrock during the Pleistocene glaciations – exposed bedrock, hills, and forest for as far as you can see. Go up to Lake Athabasca and you are in the sand and sandstone of the Athabasca Basin – its like the worlds biggest sandbox populated by these old, stunted trees. I’ve been fortunate to travel to many places in the province that are very remote. I once spent a week fishing several lakes just south of Lake Athabasca that had no road or navigable waterway access (so it is likely that they had never been fished). A colleague and I helicoptered in and enjoyable tremendous pike and lake trout fishing amongst some stunning scenery. Its too bad I didn’t yet play whistle because it would have sounded so cool sitting on the helicopter landing gear, in the middle of nowhere, playing whistle several hundred kilometers from the nearest settlement 