We started out today just after 11:00am today. I have to be in Brandon between noon and 3pm for two shops and the other is anytime during business hours. I figured we would be in Brandon just after 1pm if there were no delays.
Winnipeg has two seasons, Winter and Construction. We were going to take Inkster right to the West Perimeter and get out of town fast. It didn’t end up that way. We knew there was a bit of construction on Inkster, but it turned into a long line of single traffic, slow congestion. We decided to cut our losses and turn North on Brookside and hit the Perimeter Hwy from that angle because the construction was extended down Inkster past Brookside. We got onto the Perimeter, and took it around to the West leg, and found more construction. It was good that we left early. We didn’t get out of the construction on the Perimeter until just after 12pm.
The highway through Headingly and as far as the White Horse was quite congested as well. It’s Friday, and I guess people are heading out of town for the weekend.
We stopped at the White Horse and took a few pictures.
One of the plaques at the statue explains the significance of the statue.
It says "White Horse Plain. A Sioux Indian Chief wished to marry the beautiful daughter of an Assiniboine Chief. The Assiniboine, however, gve his daughter's hand to a Cree Chief with whom she was in love because the Cree offered a rare snow-white horse as a gift. The angry Sioux pursued the Cree and his bride whose father had returned the horse to help them escape. The Sioux killed them both but the horse escaped. For years it was seen roaming the surrounding plain and in memory of the young lovers this part of Manitoba became known as White Horse Plain."
It's interesting how places get their names. This has always been a landmark to denote the start of the Old #1 Hwy. It’s a great little twisty road to take from The White Horse, through the town of St Francis Xaviar up to Portage La Prairie.
Then on to Brandon. We hit a stretch of construction between Carberry and Brandon. It looks like they are widening the highway. It almost looks like they are making it a three lane highway in each direction. What an odd thing to do on this stretch of the road. That’s our tax dollars hard at work.
We made it to Brandon in good time. I have been there before, so it was fairly easy to navigate around to the different shops I had to do. One was on Victoria Ave and then two were on 18th Street. We went to the mall as well and checked out a great little restaurant. It’s called Five Guys Burger and Fries. When you step in the door you can smell the fresh French fries cooking. The portions are large and the taste is superb. But why does Brandon have this burger joint and not Winnipeg? Is it because Winnipeg already has several exceptional burger joints? Or will we be getting a Five Guys sometime in the near future? Hmmm. When we got our food, the burger was buried deep in the bottom of a paper bag stuffed full of hot, freshly made, home-style fries. Oh my!
After our great meal, we headed back to Winnipeg. We stopped in Austin to take a picture of the Threshing Machine on top of a post at the entrance to the town.
Then we went down the road a bit to the entrance of the Museum. There were two thresher machines at the entrance to the museum. We decided not to go into the museum. I just got a few pictures of the machines.
After that it was straight on to Winnipeg. Nothing much happened on the highway home. We got home around 6pm, and I entered the information for my Mystery Shop reports.
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