August 15 - Still Winnipeg
Today we went to the Royal Canadian Mint to see where all the coins for our country and 73 others are made.  I had no idea they were not made in Ottawa along with the bills.  The tour was excellent and the building is beautiful.  It was very interesting to see all the big machinery and to watch the process, well worth the $5.00 entry fee. 

Dalton in front of the Royal Canadian Mint, isn't it a beautiful building!

Dalton at the entry, every well kept

A 28 lb. gold brick, it comes with it's own security guard

When entering you drive between the flags of the countries that Winnipeg makes coins for, pretty impressive when you see the flags against the building.  I tried to get a postcard but they didn't have any.  I would have had to stand too far away to get the picture I wanted.

Next we went to the Cuban Pavilion.  Last night we strolled into the Scandinavian Pavilion at 6:00 when the door opened and we were the last two people they let in, so tonight we went early, 5:10, it was cold and raining, a nice Cuban gent let us in (there were 7 of us).  He said if we were very good and didn't wander around we could sit inside.  We were the first in this time.  The food wasn't so good but the show was wonderful, full of energy and great bodies.  The Cuba Libras were good but they had no dark beer.  We really enjoyed ourselves. 

The costumes were really good, they were doing the Cha Cha

This was the Conga

The Mombo and Rumba were in there somewhere

This guy had a washboard stomach that was the envy of every guy in the place

The finale, everything was so colorful and vibrant

It was still pouring when we came home, driving through little lakes, could hardly keep the windshield clear.  Glad to be home in our cosy, little RV.