Milk River, AB

Back in Canada, eh? Yes, indeed, we are. We've only got to cross the borders a few more times now (back to the States, back to Canada and then one more time).

I don't even like coffee.

Yesterday was drive day, which wasn't very exciting except that we drove through Circle, MT. Ok, Circle, MT wasn't particularly exciting either but it is notable because the closest Starbucks is 192 miles away and that makes it the furthest you can be from a Starbucks in the continental United States and that's pretty cool in it's own strange way.

This week, we are in Milk River, AB, a place we have driven past many times by now and have been waiting for for a very long time. We have been waiting for Milk River because *drum roll* they have a dinosaur statue. A giant dinosaur statue that you can see from the highway. And you know how we feel about giant roadside attractions. Avid blog readers might remember that Mandy wanted to stop here the first time we drove past it and that I nixed that idea since we would be here for a whole week. 

We walked through town today to see the sites and finally meet the dinosaur statue up close and personal. While walking through town, we stopped at town hall to look for postcards (which we found -- they have the dinosaur statue on them) and they gave us town pins! We got pins in Kyle, SK and Milk River's pins are adorable as well. It didn't come with any explanation, which would have been nice. I want to know what "Under 8 Flags" means. I also want to know why they wouldn't check the grammar before making these pins, but oh well.

Fingers crossed that the awesome weather keeps up -- it's supposed to be 20 degrees tomorrow (degrees Celsius that is, I need to turn my Canada brain back on!).