When in Winnipeg..

Now after sometime, i got a chance to write about our activities in Winnipeg.

We arrived on Thursday , noon - we grabbed the rented car (i think it was Hyundai) and drove to the Mint - a place where Canadian government produce coins for national circulation & also make for foreign countries orders.

The lake outside the Mint building was FROZEN!!! It was really, really cold!

It was about 2.10pm, then me & hubby (another quickly) joined a group of Mint tour up-stair. Not many visitors, only 6 of us. We can see from behind the glass wall, high above on how the coins is made from scratches to ready to go. The tour took us about 1 hour to finish.

After the tour, we went to the coins boutique downstair and there was a big pure gold block for an exhibition. Mind me...the gold block was really heavy - not sure what was the weight but i know the value was about Cad$400,000-00!! Wish i can steal this block??? There was a guard standing next to it all the time and the block was chained!! hahaha



From the Mint, we drove to down town and check in at the hotel - i took a nap while hubby checking on his e-mail. Then around 5.30pm, we went down to the Winnipeg Convention Centre. After registration, we went for dinner at the sushi restaurant and back to the Convention again.



There were (i think) thousands of Conservative members inside the hall. For the 1st time in my life here, i saw the PM of Canada just few feets away from me giving the prime speech! Unfortunately, i didn't get any good photo as i only brought with me a back-up camera of Olympus.