 Both are still in a lot of pain and intubation too. So if you didn't watch yesterday's video, I have to go back and watch that wiener had a surgery done in his mouth yesterday and still recovering today. Good day everybody. It's a good day for a road trip. Even just a little one. You can get out here on the road. We're on our way to see three of the 101 Manitoba attractions today. We're knocking off three in one day. I know, kind of ambitious. There's two in Grunthal. That's south of Steinbeck. And there's one in St. Molo. We're going to get all those three done today. There's a bull, a buffalo, or yeah, a bull and a bison, I think. They call it a buffalo, but it's a bison in Grunthal. Then there's the white-tailed deer in St. Molo. We're going to go check them out. I've driven past them countless times in my lifetime. Never really paid attention to them. But with this 101 Manitoba Roadside Attraction Challenge, it's kind of a mouthful. I've got to come up with a better name than that. But I didn't create it. I'm just accepting the challenge. That's 101 Roadside Attractions. And we've already knocked off two of them. Three of them, right? 101? No. We did Le Broquerie. That was Le Broquerie Holstein. Oh yeah, the centre of Canada sign. The Steinback Rolls Royce. Then we're going to do three more today, leaving us with a total of 95 remaining. So I'm glad you're here. You can come explore Southern Manitoba a little bit with me today. It's not too far. Grunthal isn't too far to go. St. Molo's a little bit of a hike, but not too bad yet. We're still getting the ones close by Steinback done first. And we'll work our way out from there. Alright, so we took Highway 12 south of Steinback. And we're turning on to Provincial Highway 205 now, towards Sardo. We'll go through Sardo, and that'll take us right up to Grunthal. Grunthal is still in the same municipality as Steinback. Well, like I said, not very far away. Well, you've got to start somewhere, right? These will get longer and longer. That's actually pretty fun, you know? It gives me an excuse to get out and explore my own home territory. I've spent the last 9, 10 years exploring all of North America everywhere but my home territory, my home province. I've been everywhere else. That's time to see what I've all been missing right here under my nose at home. Come in here, Diesel. Looks like it's open today. I just want a picture with your bull. Don't mind me. There's a lot of people here. I guess the livestock sales would be essential. I mean, people still got to eat, right? A lot of these trucks here. I'm going to park this way. There she is. My truck said it's 1 degree Celsius outside again. My thermostat is busted on this truck. That is not true. That is not accurate. Let's see. What have we got here? What does my phone say? No, wait. My phone says it's minus 1. Yeah, right. Let's refresh that. Zero. Really? So that is pretty accurate. Why does it feel like it's minus 20 outside then? When did I become such a wuss? The bison is just on the other side of Brunthal. The Brunthal Livestock Auction Mart. Oh, Diesel, what do you think? A lot of people here, man. What are you expecting? Yeah, really. I thought it would be a little quieter. So too, yeah. People need to trade their cows. It's a big deal. We need our steaks. Now I want steak. All right, so I'm going to show you on the map here where we're at right now, how we got here. So like I said before, we went down Highway 12 from Steinback. We turned right or west onto Highway 205. Am I right? I'm not looking at the map right now as you are. And then this Brunthal Livestock Auction Mart is just east of the town of Brunthal. So we're going to go to the other side of the town of Brunthal where they have the bison. And I think they got a plaque there on that one. They didn't have one here, but we'll hear what they have to say about it when we get there. Let's head over. I didn't see that here last time. We weren't here that long ago. Would you look at that? This is a local hotspot to hit if you're into food like I am. Most people are, they like to eat. Go to the Red Wing Diner here in Brunthal. The hockey team here in Brunthal is called the Brunthal Red Wings just like the Detroit Red Wings. So it's called the Red Wing Diner. It's the same logo. It's got some really good food and you always want to support local as much as you can, right? So when you're headed west through town you go around this curve that will point to your nose north and the buffalo or the bison is right here. Right here on the left. Right by this probably a manateuvahedral outpost building thing. Looks like someone else has been here recently too. Probably doing the same challenge. Some other tire tracks in here. Let's go see what it says. Maybe I can read it from here. Maybe I can zoom in on it for you guys. If not, you can pause it. Let's say donors to this project. The people who paid for it. It says the Brunthal Chamber of Commerce erected this statue in 1995 to commemorate the tourism brought to this area through the efforts of Nick and Sarah Jantz and their family at the Cottonwood Corner Game Farm. Cool. I don't know about you but to me it looks like this bison has a few bullet holes in it. One right in the butt over there. One right in the center and one in the head. But you know those could be where they lifted it from as well, you know? That's probably how they lifted it up there. That's what I'm thinking. I'm thinking a bullet hole would probably be a little bit more messy than that. I hope people aren't shooting this thing. That wouldn't be very nice. Cool. Let's get ourselfie and we'll be on our way. Let's see where this next one is. Saint Molo. Something called Saint Molo. I believe it's Saint Molo. Where is this? The White-tailed Deer. How far away are you? White-tailed... White-tailed Deer. Saint Molo. Oh, there it is. It's got its own little field in there. Okay. We're going to go back through Grunthal. We can go all the way around or we can take the gravel. Yeah, we'll go back through Grunthal and then go by. It's 20 kilometers from here. About 15 minutes. Let's go before the sun is taking away from us again. Okay, instead of going all the way around through Grunthal, we're going to take this one. This is Cottonwood Road on the west side of Grunthal. It doesn't tell me if it's a provincial road or anything. I'm pretty sure this is going to turn to gravel in just a second here. Speed limit is 70. Let's see where this takes us. Let's do a little bit of back country exploring, shall we? I didn't even expect it to be paved this far. I'm actually pretty impressed. While we're passing through Grunthal here, figured we'd stop by the Grunthal Centennial Park. What else seems to be here? I think the weasel would like to stretch his legs a little bit. Let's go check this place out. I believe we came here for family photos a long time ago, but I don't really know much about this place. Big open area for him to stretch his legs. The snow isn't too deep yet. A couple inches maybe. Not too bad. It's nice looking park though. Very impressed. Oh, they got more over there. Looks like a motocross track. Oh, yeah. I would love to have a dirt bike. I'd love to have a snowmobile. I'd love to have all the toys in the world. I'd also love to have all the money in the world. I'm not there yet. Get him, Diesel. Get him. Get him. Come here. Diesel. Diesel, come here. Oh, this thing needs a wash. I say that every day. Come on, Diesel. And I mean it every day. Hey, Diesel, it's just so hard to keep a truck clean. You got to pick the right days and winter time to wash it when it's not too cold, so your truck doesn't freeze, except I don't have a garage to park in anymore. And also a day when it's cold enough that the road isn't all messy to get your truck dirty right away again, right? I just got to go and do it. I don't know. I'm trying to save some money too. There's that. This Highway 59 southbound. This highway goes all the way up to Winnipeg. It turns into Lajmodie Boulevard. When you hit Winnipeg, it goes right through the east section of Winnipeg, then continues on north of the city as Highway 59. All the way up to Grand Beach, I believe. I'm not even north of the city anyway. I'm from south. I'm from the south of the city. I don't know much about the interlake or anywhere else in Manitoba. That's why we're doing this challenge. So we can learn more about our own province. Like these, like today, going to Grunthal Saint-Malo, this isn't anything out of my way. This isn't anything super special for me because I'm here all the time, right? But I want to cross the mall off, and I figured I'd start off with the ones I know first. Or the towns I know first. I'm really excited to start other parts of this region that I never even knew existed. I can show it to you guys too. Visit Manitoba for whatever reason. You'll know where to go. Not many people visit Manitoba. So you can explore it virtually with me. We're not going to do this every day. Like I said, I don't got enough money for gas to drive around that much. At least we'll go once a week. That's what I want to do. At least once a week we'll go out and check some of these off. We'll see. Maybe we can do more. No promises. We're going to get it done all 101, including up in Churchill. Oh, it's right here. Your destination is on the left. There we go. That sign over there says, Coming soon, Future of Community Project. Oh, cool. It must be building something here. But here's the Whitetail Deer anyway. Cross another one off the list. Let's see what this plaque has to say. That sun is exactly in the wrong spot for us to read that. Alright, we're going to have to get out here and walk up to it. That sun is right in my eyes. So there it is. Two Whitetail Deer, Buck and a Doe. Here in St. Malo, Manitoba. You can pause it and read this if you want to, or you can Google it. It says, Unveiled by His Royal Highness, the Prince Edward, the 7th of July, 1990 to commemorate the only successful deer relocation program in Canada. Wildlife for the Future. This Whitetail Deer Statue is placed in recognition of the valuable volunteer assistance provided to the Department of Natural Resources by the St. Malo and District Wildlife Association and Area Residents from 1985 to 1988. 1988. That's a good year. A lot of good people were born that year. Including me. So the Whitetail Deer were captured and moved from the city of Winnipeg to the St. Malo Wildlife management area and surrounding region. Area residents provided countless hours of assistance and equipment to transport deer during the relocation program. Isn't that cool? Also recognized is the contribution of the St. Malo District Wildlife Association Area Residents who contributed volunteer time and provided financial resources to establish the St. Malo Rat River Wildlife Management Area dedicated towards the preservation of our precious wildlife resource is equaled by few. So this was placed on the 7th of July, 1990. Okay. Isn't that cool? Now we know. Really cool. It's right across. If you know the area it's right across from the co-op and right where that van is going down right over there. That's the entrance into St. Malo Provincial Park where you go to the beach and stuff. So next time you come here take a gander out this way and you'll see that. Hopefully the sun won't be right in your eyes though when you come to see it. Really cool. Another one checked off the list. Again, I've been here so many times in my childhood and throughout my adult life. Never even noticed them here. The more you know. So maybe we'll go check out town a little bit on our way home. Show you around a little bit. Let's see what Google has to say about this town of St. Malo. If you guys are wondering what this town is all about as far as I know it's a a French settled town. It says right here on Wikipedia. Where's Wikipedia? Yeah, Wikipedia says St. Malo is an unincorporated community recognized as a local urban district located in the rural municipality of DeSalaberry approximately 70 kilometers south of the Forks. That's a big landmark in Winnipeg we're gonna be going there. Don't worry keep up with these videos. We're gonna end up there eventually. It's the biggest one in Manitoba in the city. This is the biggest one in Winnipeg we'll say in my opinion. We'll see. See what you think. You be the judge. Most of the community's residents are bilingual Francophone of Métis or Quebecois heritage. But like I said French. So the people who settled this town were Métis and Quebecers from Quebec. Way back in the day. So like I said we live in a very German like Drunthal was my municipality where I'm from. That's a German heritage municipality municipality of German heritage. Is that the right way to say it? And I always say we're surrounded by French municipalities, right? Settled by people with French heritage. And this is one of our wonderful French neighbors. So if you follow my videos regularly you'll know that you can always tell it's a French town because they got a big Catholic cathedral or big Catholic church with big high steeples. The church is in my region in the municipality of Hanover which has a lot of Mennonite heritage Protestant heritage and other Protestant sects of Christianity. They have a different style of buildings. You see the Catholics always built big grand churches and parishes. I think that's what they call them which is beautiful. And ours are built to look more like warehouses. And there's a reason for that. My ancestors I guess would use say the Mennonites, the heritage we moved to Canada to escape religious persecution in Prussia and other places around Europe at the time. Everyone's always fighting over religion and it was a crazy time. And the reason they built their churches to look like warehouses and not like churches was to be able to hide them at the time in the region where they were. If the government were to find out that you were practicing your faith or your religion, they would just burn your building down and chase you out. Possibly kill you. Most likely kill you. So that's why they started making their churches to look more like random buildings and warehouses so that they could be less identifiable and it sort of come through the ages and sort of stayed that way. Most churches in Steinbeck you'll see. Some look more more churchy as you'd say, but a lot of them just look like regular warehouse buildings and that's because that sort of followed us down through the ages I guess. People always had to hide where they were practicing their faith. The Catholics on the other hand broadcast it loud and proud. This is the house of God. It is here. You know that the steeples used to by law have to be the highest point in any city or town. It was illegal to build a building higher than the church steeple. So when that was still a thing church steeples would have to get built higher and higher and higher because the buildings were getting built higher and higher and higher and you weren't allowed to build your building higher than the church steeple but they wanted to build big buildings. Tongue twister. So what they did was they just kept building them higher and higher. Anyways, a little tidbit for you there. I'm going to go check out that Jesus statue over there. You want to come with me? I guess we sort of got to come at it from the front here. I don't want to walk across the yard. I'll walk on the walkway. So it's a very small town. This is the main drag right here. I guess they call this Main Street. You got your co-op food store off to the left. Groceries, liquor, lotteries, hardware. They have a hockey team as well. We used to play against them. Like I said in past vlogs, I played for Landmark. We were the Landmark Blues. Forget what Saint Molo called their team. I know Grunthal was the Red Wings. Niverville were the Clippers. Niverville Clippers, Grunthal Red Wings, Landmark Blues. Oh, such a long time ago already. I miss it though. I miss playing hockey. I'd love to get involved in a rec league again or something. There's the Whitetail Deer just off to the right. We're going to go the opposite way now towards the Provincial Park. When you come to the beach in Saint Molo or to the park, this is the road you'll be going down. So most of these places in here are not people who live here full time. They would be people who have extra money for a second getaway home. They could be in the summertime but they would also a lot of people are here in the winter time as well. Maybe they do live here full time all year round. Some of them probably do. This is what we'd call cottage country, Manitoba. I know diesel, I'd really like to have one too but can you imagine taking care of these places? The only way we could do that is if we had people who could take care of them for us. See, there aren't people here through the winter as well. So I guess it's all up to you. If you want to be here in winter, it's accessible. But people like this look like they shut it down for the winter and just come out here in the summer. So I'm sure there's so much more to share with you about these communities we visited today, Grunthal and Saint Molo. Hopefully you got a little taste of two different communities with different heritage but only about 15-20 minutes away from each other. Sounds a lot of fun, ain't it? We've got to stop by the park in Grunthal too. You've got to run around. That was fun. I'm going to go home now. Britt didn't want to come with on today's adventure because she wanted to stay home with Wiener. He just had his surgery yesterday. He's still feeling a little rough today. It'll take him a little while to recuperate so she wanted to stay home with him. Which is understandable so it's just me in the ways allowed exploring today. Next time we go out we'll go somewhere new. I'm not too sure we could go to Westhawk Lake by the Ontario border or we could go down to Emerson by the US border or out to Winkler, Altona area or into Winnipeg. There's 101 of them, right? How much do we have left now? 95? I am not going to return home without bringing gifts. I must return bearing gifts of the best sorts. We got the goods. I am not returning home empty-handed. Very important. I feel like it was a good day today. I feel like it was good. Felt really good to get out and about. Come on in Diesel. Chef, you want to come too? No, you're going to stay for a bit. Where is he? Diesel, you find her? Diesel? Why are you sitting in the kitchen? Couldn't be because of this. Could it? Is that why? Look at this chicken Caesar salad. Get a good look at that in quality, high definition. You have an admirer. Usually have a couple. One more over there. Another one. Over there, still recovering. You stay there, Wiener. The last one, I don't know what's up with him. He never begs. He never begs. Unless it's yogurt. Unless it's yogurt, I bet ya. Oh, he's in this one. Somebody in here because they want a bath? He usually doesn't come in here because it's too close to the bathtub and he hates baths so much. You can stay in here, but it's quiet and cool in here. There you go. Continue. 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