Brandon...The Sights

Admittedly Brandon doesn't have any real sights if a teacher were to lable it, they'd use the "needs improvement" tag. This didn't stop us from going out and filling our days with stuff to do.

The front page news was that a "Show n' Shine"/"Shine n' Show"/"Salivate'n Spit" show was in town the August Long Weekend. Dad and I handed over our money to wander around the thousands of cars. It was pretty cool but like any kid not really all that into it, my highlight was slurping on the Rootbeer Float we bought.



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On the Sunday of the long weekend, Dad took Greg and I out to the Brandon "Hills". He was our sherpa lugging our water for us as he showed us around the area he goes cross-country skiing in during the winter.



Greg made the mad dash to the highest hill. It was in the parking lot.

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Another day we went to the British Commonwealth Trainning Museum out at the Brandon airport where pilots came to train during WWII. It sounded like a cool bit of history and there were pockets of information I did enjoy. Unfortunately I left with two thoughts stuck in my mind.

One: The museum was twice the size of the airport.
Two: This museum was trying hard to stay exciting but if your signs are printed by someone plucking away on a typewriter maybe it's time to update the place.

Luckily, to make up for the musuem well past it's expiry date there was a military plane busily dropping loads out of it's backside as it used the vacant airport as it's training ground.



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On this day we went down to the Assiniboine river to walk along it's banks. Unfortunately, there is only one pedestrian bridge crossing on the river so once we reached the main park we had to double back to get to the car.




It may sound like I'm taking the piss out of Brandon and I am but all the daytrips I did do were fantastic because of the people I was with.