Day 86 - Its a Beautiful Day

Started off the day with breakfast at Tomas Cook (not the travel company) with Holly and her parents. Saw the menu and thought the pancakes and strawberries would be a tiny little dish for $4.99 - I was a tad little on the wrong side. The strawberries were really fresh and lots of them, and the cream pushed me over the edge.

Today was just great day for photographs and the like. We went for a little bit of a wander around the riverbank. We came across this water fountain for adults, kids and dogs. I thought the part for dogs was a great idea (on the right hand side). Sometimes while walking dogs, they don't like to drink from running water or a persons cupped hand, so this makes perfect sense.



We ended up circling back to the Mendell Art Gallery that we went to yesterday. I went back into the green house type area and started taking some photos. Because it was so humid, my camera lens would fog up pretty quickly. Thus when I took photos, a couple of them turned out like that below - one of those little things that you stumble upon and note down for future reference. It just seems to accentuate the light, kinda like in a soap opera on tv (although, they use to use vaseline to get that hazy effect).



The others felt like doing some shopping while I wanted to take some photographs (I like to line up photos in certain ways so will wander around a bit to get a shot - really boring to anyone else but me). So I wandered around the city for a bit. Love blue sky days so had to go back to this church from yesterday to get a better shot.



I wandered down one side of the river, crossed one of the 7 bridges in Saskatoon, and wandered back up the other side. I came across this Prairie Dog (can't spell) which is kinda like a giant rat that stands up on its hind legs to see around.



One aspect of the buildings along the river front that strike you is the overall colour profile. You see the overall colours and an unusual combination of yellow, earth red, browns, whites and greys. Certainly is unique.



I saw this sign immediately and just thought that only in Canada could you have a sign like this right in the middle of the city. I looked around at the building it was next to and couldn't see any signs of danger ... but what would I know.



Later on I meet up with Holly and went out to the Synchrotron Microscope facility. Hoping that there might have been a little bit of a tour but not to be. Basically this microscope is the size of a building with the main accelerator being 170m in diameter.

In short, get electrons, apply lots of heat to make them go REALLY fast, fire them at whatever you are looking at, and you will be able to see down to a molecular level. Kinda think of it as X-rays for molecules. Afterwards back to the house for diner with everyone.

In the evening, I was vegging out in front of the TV. I don't watch a great deal of TV these days, but man cable/satelite TV here would be so dangerous! As bad as what Australian TV has become with ads and poor news coverage, just means that you switch off and don't watch it - maybe that indirectly is a good thing.