What's up guys? Kristin here with Be My Travel Muse and today I am in a winter wonderland
in Canada and as a California girl, I really wanted to know what's it like to have a full-on
winter experience. I've been here once before, it was in the summertime, and today I'm in
a place where there's almost no other tourists, going to go play in the snow. So, let's go
on a little adventure and I want to show you the top 10 amazing things that you can do
in this province. I'm on an airplane right now, going somewhere cool.
It's minus 30 but it looks so sunny.
This is the adorable cabin that we're staying at in Whiteshell and now
it is hot tub time.
Getting ready for minus 21. I'm ready.
These are my Burning Man googles?
This is crazy, I'm on a frozen lake right now. I don't know, that's wild to me.
Are you sure this is fine?
Man 1: Is this your first time on the ice?
Kristin: Yes. Oh, my God, it's so cool, though.
It's really hot when you have the right gear
on. It's minus 21 and I'm really hot, I don't understand how this works. I'm actually sweating
now. Such a beautiful winter wonderland out here. I thought I was gonna be way too cold
but I'm actually more than warm enough, in fact, I'm a little bit hot. And I'm a dragon.
We did it. How do you feel?
Man 1: Great.
Kristin: I feel like I want a soup, pronto, pronto.
So, since it's this cold outside,
I think it would be really fun to do a magic trick.
Good morning. Time to head out on the way back to Winnipeg, maybe making some
stops along the way and then hang out in Winnipeg tonight.
Our wintertime transportation system.
Kristin: Whoa, super cool. So, they're carving snow behind me, let's see what they're doing.
Check that out, it's a sandcastle made of snow, sandcastle made of snow. This is neat,
they've got teams from all over the world carving these snow castles. It's beautiful,
I've never seen anything like this. This is basically a 10-day festival or a 9-day festival
in February that celebrates the early settlers in this region who were fur traders and so,
now I'm in this area where people are reenacting what it used to be like. Where'd you get all
these?
Man 2: I trade them.
Kristin: Okay. It's like an Arctic fox.
Man 2: The real one.
Kristin: Yeah, you can walk into any one of these buildings and there'll be people inside
who you can ask questions, like I was just talking to a fur trader, fur used to be the
currency of the time. And then another man over there was talking about the diet at the
time, which I don't think I would have enjoyed.
Man 3: It's just dried meat that's been pounded into a powder, you eat it with some fat, it
keeps very, very well. And actually, recently...
Kristin: This whole festival is sort of celebrating culture from then to now, there is an aboriginal
tent that has aboriginal music all day.
Kristin: And I'm really interested in going to the sugar shack because I love me a maple
syrup. So, let's head there now.
Oh, yes. Oh, yes. Oh, yes. Maple syrup on the snow,
give me the maple syrup on the snow, yes.
Man 4: Okay, I just pour this.
Kristin: Okay. And then?
Man 4: And then put your stick like an L.
Kristin: Okay.
Man 4: Yep, just lay it down on there and leave it there for about a minute and then
you'll be able to roll it up.
Kristin: That's really good.
I'm going to give axe throwing a try.
Who's up next?
Kristin: Okay, now we're back in Winnipeg, so thus begins the nighttime adventures in
this wonderful city. Since we're focusing on wintertime stuff, I want to take you around
the light displays that they have right now. So, you can skate all along these trails through
the lights, it's pretty cool.
Kristin: Good morning. Heading into a spa right now, this is the kind where they have
a bunch of different pools of different temperatures, different, different, different, and saunas.
And they've got them all over Canada and Europe and I really missed them, so this is very
exciting, especially in a snowy environment. Yes.
Man 1: Are you going in?
Kristin: No. No way.
Oh, that was so good, so good. What's next?
Goodmorning, Winnipeg,
but don't let this sun fool you, it's still minus 17 out there. That is a serious snow
maze, a serious snow maze. Let's get lost.
So, our adventure brings us now to the largest
snow maze in the world. It's about 30 minutes south of Winnipeg and I've never done a snow maze before.
There we go.
Kristin: This is a movie theater. This reminds me of the snow hotels in Finland, this is
super cool. I didn't expect to find this here.
Kristin: It's a game, woo-hoo.
Kristin: Good morning. It's snowing. The game was tons of fun and today it's time for a
little bit more fun. First, the zoo and then some winter driving academy stuff.
Oh, that's so cool.
Kristin: So, the Assiniboine Zoo has the Journey of Churchill exhibit and so that's where the
seals and the polar bears are. And the polar bears were orphaned out in Churchill and so
if they're orphaned, they won't survive so they bring them here. Actually, they bring
them to a conservation center and then they bring them here, so these are all polar bears
that are getting sort of a second lease on life. And they sometimes will swim above you
like the seals were, they didn't feel like it today but it's really cool to see them
all snowy in their natural habitat, especially since right now you can't see them in Churchill
in the winter because they're out fishing on the ice. So, hopefully, we will see some
northern lights when we head up there tomorrow, though. But for now, I'm gonna go take a Mercedes
for a spin.
Kristin: So, we're actually doing all of this on a frozen lake.
Man 5: We're doing everything on the frozen lakes. All these charts, you can see it using
the navigation screen.
Kristin: Dang, that's us right now on a lake.
Man 5: You're not gonna panic or anything, right, and cover my eyes?
Kristin: It's like a roller coaster without a track.
Man 5: Exactly, but roller coasters are much safer because you can't fall off.
Kristin: Great.
Man 5: Crazy.
Kristin: I'm from California. I've never done this before.
After getting over the initial...getting used to
the feeling of it, it's a lot of fun. I can see it being amazing coming out here and doing
it for a few days, anywhere from one to seven days?
Man 5: One to three and a half.
Kristin: One to three and a half days so you can learn how to do this as well. And now
I'm in the ice garage, you could see our sexy car behind me.
This is super cool. Okay, the
car was awesome but we're not done, we're not done. Time to fly.
All right. Oh, okay.
A lot of toys in here.
Man 6: Yeah.
Kristin: Wow, check this out.