Day 20, 21, and 22 - September 6-8: Fort Saskatchewan to home

Our flight was at 3:30 in the afternoon or something, and it only took 10 minutes to get to the airport, so we needed to fill up an entire day.  We headed for a walk to the most northerly stoplight in BC.  It looked exactly like every other stoplight. But on the way there, we found Nahanni Drive, which was slightly interesting.

We got to Edmonton at about 7:30 or so, and then we drove to Fort Saskatchewan (just south of Edmonton), where Heather's mom's friend Laurie lives and we were spending the night.  Laurie was very entertaining; he doesn't much care for children and he really likes cats.  He and his wife have about 1 000 000 Siamese cat things around their house, which was kind of ridiculous.  But it was very nice not to have to sleep in a hotel.

What followed was two days of driving.  Heather and Eric both finished all their books before arrival in Brandon, we spent a brief (two hours) time period lost on Saskatchewan back roads, and Heather became the ultimate champion of the cow counting game.  We got home late in the evening before Heather started school, and Eric missed his first day (which was probably fine, since you don't do anything on the first day of school anyway).

And that was our canoe trip vacation!