Saskatoon

How can you not like a place called Saskatoon?  We spent much of the day driving across the wheat fields of Manitoba and Saskatchewan - this is the middle of harvest season and the combines were busy - and arrived late in the afternoon in this small (not that small - 200,000 people) city on the banks of the South Saskatchewan River.  We had found a place downtown, which made exploring the riverfront easy.

Saskatoon is called the City of Bridges.  I'm sure there are many other cities equally, or more, deserving of that title, but it certainly makes sense.  I drove to the east (south) side of the river to watch the sunrise on downtown - and found good coffee at a roasters on the south end of the Broadway Bridge.

I think many of our ideas for this Canadian trip came from some notes I'd made from Lonely Planet back in Seattle.  We had dinner at Souleio, which was great.  And then stopped for breakfast at the Park Cafe on the way out of town the next morning.