Hellooooo from Yorkton, Saskatchewan!

THERE'S ACTUALLY FULL CELL PHONE COVERAGE HERE! It was all too exciting of a time, driving into the area and receiving all the delayed texts and messages!

Anyways, to keep you updated... I arrived here on Saturday.
Since my last post, I pretty much was just heading to my point once a day (since it was a 4 hr round trip journey from the hotel - usually you check on it a few times a day, but this was a special circumstance given that I was so far away) with a coworker who was staying in dauphin. I would just add another battery each day to ensure all the data was effectively being collected. On the dirt/gravel road that I spend about half the drive on each day, I came across a really sad beaver. It had a broken leg. It wasn't even frightened by the car barrelling down the road at it.. just kept limping across the road on 3 legs. I wanted to rescue it so badly. It ended up swimming away in a 'lake' (former field) off the side of the road though, so hopefully he'll be alright!
I believe I also managed to ruin my immaculate record of zero animal killings. A bird flew into my windshield. Didn't see where it went, but I doubt it was in very good shape. Sad day.
I also found a tick on me 3 hrs after being in the grass by my point... that was fun.
Also learned they're quite difficult to kill, so I just flushed it down the toilet haha. I now wear rainboots whenever I go into the tall grass around here.

On my drive to Yorkton, I stopped in to get an oil change when I saw a GM goodwrench that had a big NOW OPEN sign... buut when I stopped, it appeared not to be open whatsoever. All doors locked, very empty inside. There were a bunch of cars at the next lot over though, and I could see and Esso sign in the distance, so I figured I'd pop over and see if I could get it done there. Turns out it was an auction! So now I can say that I've been to a real live auction haha. I only stuck around long enough to see a large old fashioned milk churn being carried away by a jolly little woman, and hear the craaazy fast talking of an auctioneer (of which I couldn't understand a word).

CURRENTLY
Odometer Reading: 23500 ish..
Hotel Number: 7
Harry Potter AudioBooks Completed: 2
Animals Seen: deer, rabbits, fox[dead :(], beaver, groundhog, countless cows, sooo many herons, sheep.
Big Things Visited: Nickel, Baseball, Canada Goose, Winnie the Pooh, Golf ball town mascot.

Other Tidbits
Booked all of my accommodations for the rest of my trip so that I won't run into any of the issues that I did in Fairford. (phew)
Had another incident with a creeper from my last hotel following me into the elevator and to my floor etc. while maintaining excellent creeper eyes. No harm done though.
Was talking to another man at my last hotel over breakfast about how worried he was as to what was going to happen to he and his wife. They were staying at the hotel because they had been evacuated from their home (along with many others at the hotel) because the water level on much of their land was up to his waist. All of his crops were ruined, which were his livelihood and source of income. So sad. It also stormed later that day. Poor guy :(

On a lighter note, it was sunny today!?

Miss you all!
Erin