Grey Cup weekend day 2, chapter the first: in which we tour Winnipeg, and find it to be bisonesque, with undertones of A Space Odyssey.

Our whistlestop tour began with St. Boniface Cathedral, which includes the remains of a previous incarnation that burned in 1968. The Mint wasn't open, but we went to see the Manitoba provincial legislature, which was startlingly grand, and eerily empty.


Then we went and got some lunch on at The Forks before heading out to Fort Whyte to check out the bison.


"They're bison, all right."

We had a good hike around one of the trails, checked out a fearless deer and fawn at the bison viewing mound, and then my chimp friend discovered that "bison bone make good tool."


Cue Also Sprach Zarathustra.

Later that night we hit the revolving lounge atop Fort Garry Place and my cellphone captured this slightly impressionistic version of the Winnipeg skyline. We traced 360 degrees and consumed mediocre nachos. Magnetic-sole boots not required.