Batoche

When we went home from the lake on Thursday, I told Rachelle I wanted to go out and do something rather than sit at home, because I would be doing a lot of that once she started school and coaching volleyball. So, we invited brother Keegan and went to Batoche. You know Batoche, the place you go on field trips from school, Northwest Rebellion, and Louis Riel. We went there. It was cool to go as an objective adult. We did a lot of walking cover most of the 2-3 mile radius of the park and saw all the sights. The highlight was actually the scenic path along the river. I was especially glad that they updated the theatre presentation with video, although they still had the same bad synthesizer music. It was interesting in the presentation they mentioned a big reason behind the rebellion was they didn't trust Ottawa and they were struggling to maintain their way of life on the praries. Remarkable how 100 years later things haven't changed much! As residents from Saskatchewan we still don't trust Ottawa has our best interests in mind, and we still struggle to live and work on the praries and not get swallowed up by Alberta or BC.