Adventure Logan

On Wednesday we travelled to Lakeland (about 1.5 hours away) with Dennis and Gerrie Irwin to attend the Snowbird Extravaganza. It was our first time but the Irwins are veterans of this event. Basically it is a mini trade show with entertainment and the annual meeting of the Canadian Snowbird Association. This association has 100,000 members and over 30,000 of them attended this event in Florida. Other large events are held in Arizona and Texas.

Dave was hoping to get to see Jimmy Flynn (Dave was president of the Fleet Club in the 80’s and  responsible for the entertainment and often hired Jimmy). We were only on site for about 20 minutes when he got his wish to connect with Jim. They had a quick gab about the “good old days” and we also got to see his performance.

In addition to Jimmy’s show we also saw Crystal Gage a multiple award-winning country performer.

And to top off the day we were treated to the Celtic-based music and dance of The Next Generation Leahy. These are the 6 kids of Doug Leahy  who is part of the group Leahy. They have performed with such artist as The Tenors, and their Uncle Donnell and Aunt Natalie MacMaster). The kids range in age from 6-14 and are very talented.

It was interesting to meet this friendly RCMP officer from Winnipeg. He told us he was really enjoying the warm weather.

We were surprised we didn’t see many people we know (Dave always meets people wherever he goes). We were thrilled that we ran into Hazel and Gordie Hadley who camped with us at Evangeline Beach for many years.

No road trip is complete without at lunch stop. We had these scrumptious milk shakes at Steak and Shake!