Regina Day 1 (Moose Jaw)

A leisurely start to the day today and we drove out to Moose Jaw which is the next major town over we took a gravel road from theirs to meet the highway to Moose Jaw. Many of the local roads in this area are like this and they run for miles either East-West or North-South. And yes even out in the middle of no where where you can see for miles in all directions you sill have to come to a complete stop at a Stop sign. Every now and again the North – South roads do a big dogleg to account for the fact that they run off north every so often and have to be corrected.
We arrived in Moose Jaw which was once a huge bootlegging town, Al Capone was allegedly in town and the town seems to thrive on this. We took the 'Tunnels' tours which is a theatrical tour around various buildings and passages. It was done very will with guides in period costume and animatronics a lots of 'secret passages' from room to room. The first tour told the story of Al Capone and the bootlegging industry which existed here when Prohibition was in force in the US. The second told of the treatment of the Chinese Immigrant workers who came here to make their fortune and suffered greatly from persecution and maltreatment. Overall very Interesting and humorous but sobering when seeing what the Chinese went through. For our evening meal we went to a local church complex which was having a fund raising event. In the sports hall we had a huge meal of beef and vegetables with a side salad, the strangest thing was a sort of creamy angel delight textured dip which had soft wheat mixed in it.

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