I’m impressed that Moose Jaw has managed to turn a few spurious tourist attractions into a destination. This past weekend, my wife Jenny and I spent the night there and I had some reflections. I’ll preface this blog by asking you to please take this as a humourous entry and not an attempt to talk smack about Moose Jaw. Moose Jaw is a friendly little town and its people are very nice. I know how proud we in Saskatchewan can be, so I don’t want anyone to feel disrespected. I have to say though, there are some smoke and mirrors behind the Moose Jaw tourism draw.
Moose Javian? I heard someone on the radio refer to being a Moose Javian. My daughters wondered what kind of creature that is.
Someone from Moose Jaw I explained. “Weird,” they thought.
“What do you call someone from Regina or from Saskatoon?” they wondered. Then we started going through some other Saskatchewan place names and some good questions arose.
Have a look at Friday's highlights between Dallas and Ottawa off of TSN. In the intermission some nine year old players were having a shootout. This 9 year old named Matts Gerlach scored an amazing goal.
Click on Highlights in the related info box:
http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/news_story/?ID=224673&hubname=nhl
Unreal.