we decided to have a saskatchewan adventure a few weeks ago. jason had heard that saskatchewan's largest tree wasn't too far of a drive from where we live, so of course we had to go see it. :)
here we are, saskatchewanians in our native habitat. and i know what you're thinking: there's not a tree in sight. correct. this is saskatchewan, after all. but wouldn't you know it, we actually had a little trouble finding this mythical tree. you'd think with it being the 'largest' and also being in saskatchewan that we could see it from miles away. but apparently not. so we decided to stop for lunch in the middle of nowhere beside someone's lovely field.
here is a sad little boy we found sitting on a dirt road in the middle of nowhere after our picnic lunch.
sad little boy cheered up when we let him ride in the air conditioned car and he got to cuddle his baby.
he also liked it when his baby rode on daddy's head.
it took us a little longer to find this tree than we had planned, and the happier little boy became sad once more. even little joe and his tricycle couldn't cheer him up for long.
finally, TREE ROAD. this MUST be it.
oh, TREE. that's the sign we missed the first time. oops. but now we're getting excited and starting to scan the horizon.
again, TREE. but where is it? or any tree, for that matter? we stalwartly continue to follow the signs.
grasshopper decides to come along too. there are some trees now. but they're not very big.
we come to the final sign and stop. we found it. but... where is it? if you look closely you can see that there's a tree just to the right of the sign there. yup. that's the one.
it looks bigger from closer up.
sad little boy likes it.
and some other folks actually drove up right after we did. it is actually a huge tourist attraction. ... so they took our picture for us with TREE. now you can sort of see how big it really is.
TREE has long bouncy limbs extending in every direction, and many of them curve and even touch the ground. unfortunately, any branches within reach are rubbed bare of bark. if you look more closely you can pretty much figure out who's visited TREE in the last 5 years, as well as who they're in love with. if you're lucky you'll even get a phone number. happy little boy really liked the bounciness.
and so our adventure ended in success and we are now (more) proud to be from saskatchewan. (next time we're going to hunt down the twisty trees. we heard about them when we asked for directions to the largest tree...)
here we are, saskatchewanians in our native habitat. and i know what you're thinking: there's not a tree in sight. correct. this is saskatchewan, after all. but wouldn't you know it, we actually had a little trouble finding this mythical tree. you'd think with it being the 'largest' and also being in saskatchewan that we could see it from miles away. but apparently not. so we decided to stop for lunch in the middle of nowhere beside someone's lovely field.
here is a sad little boy we found sitting on a dirt road in the middle of nowhere after our picnic lunch.
sad little boy cheered up when we let him ride in the air conditioned car and he got to cuddle his baby.
he also liked it when his baby rode on daddy's head.
it took us a little longer to find this tree than we had planned, and the happier little boy became sad once more. even little joe and his tricycle couldn't cheer him up for long.
finally, TREE ROAD. this MUST be it.
oh, TREE. that's the sign we missed the first time. oops. but now we're getting excited and starting to scan the horizon.
again, TREE. but where is it? or any tree, for that matter? we stalwartly continue to follow the signs.
grasshopper decides to come along too. there are some trees now. but they're not very big.
we come to the final sign and stop. we found it. but... where is it? if you look closely you can see that there's a tree just to the right of the sign there. yup. that's the one.
it looks bigger from closer up.
sad little boy likes it.
and some other folks actually drove up right after we did. it is actually a huge tourist attraction. ... so they took our picture for us with TREE. now you can sort of see how big it really is.
TREE has long bouncy limbs extending in every direction, and many of them curve and even touch the ground. unfortunately, any branches within reach are rubbed bare of bark. if you look more closely you can pretty much figure out who's visited TREE in the last 5 years, as well as who they're in love with. if you're lucky you'll even get a phone number. happy little boy really liked the bounciness.
and so our adventure ended in success and we are now (more) proud to be from saskatchewan. (next time we're going to hunt down the twisty trees. we heard about them when we asked for directions to the largest tree...)
4 comments:
Quite the adventure! You are such a good writer Karina :)
I'd never even heard of TREE, but I have heard of the twisty ones. Haven't seen them though - better put both on my life to-do list.
Awesome, next time you are so close come for coffee. And I can get Tim to send you directions to the crooked bush...its pretty cool.
You make me laugh out loud! A fantastic adventure indeed. Where can I get my own sad little boy in the middle of the road? You know you're from SK when they need to put up signs to direct you to a tree! ("Really! There's a tree!? Where?") I also was a little lost near the end when you were talking about the tree having no bark and looking closely to tell who's been there....and then I got it. Hope you took home some phone numbers!
You guys have some great adventures!
Carter looks like a good little traveller!
So much to see in this province of ours... :)
I've heard about the twisty trees a lot as well - my dad used to snowmobile there.
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