Feeling all Prince Albert

Things you might not know about Prince Albert, Saskatchewan:

They don't have a lot of "green" food here. Not organic, but things like broccoli and lettuce. Fresh broccoli and lettuce.

They serve marachino cherries with your meal, but only in the "fancy" restaurants. If you are lucky, the cherries are candy yellow.

They don't recycle much so whenever I get a plastic bottle I carry it around, feeling too guilty to throw it out.

Downtown, near the river, they used to have a stuffed animal nature house. It was full of stuffed, dead creatures. Covered in dust with marbles for eyes. My grandpa used to take me there and we'd reach over the rails and "pet" the animals.

I got married in the nursing home here. I really did like older men. Kidding, I got married to Chris!!

At the B&B I'm staying at, they give you a decanter of sherry so you can have a glass before you go to bed. It kind of sounds like the plot twist in an Agatha Christie novel.

There are three turns of any sort between Saskatoon and here -- other than that the road is a big long straight line.

They got a Starbucks in the Safeway two years ago. But since most of the people working at the Starbucks had never been to a Starbucks, it's like nothing you've ever experienced before.

My grandmother wanted to put one of the roses I brought her "between her teeth" and then she wanted to give it to the man in the room next to hers...

More revalations to come.