We arrived at the International Peace Garden today. It is on the border of North Dakota and Canada. When you drive around the park, the southern loop is in the U.S. and the northern loop is in Canada.
And if we don't make a left turn before this, we'll be going on into Canada.
The person on the left in the orange shirt checked us in. There is a campground right in the park.
She had us pull up in front of the stop sign and when Dave opened the door, we were right by one of the hanging flower baskets.
This is the original boundary marker, a cairn built of stones gathered from both countries. The following pledge is inscribed on the cairn:
"To God in His Glory
We two nations
Dedicate this garden
And pledge ourselves
That as long as men
Shall live, we will
Not take up arms
Against one another."
It was dedicated on July 14, 1932.
And here is Dianna who checked us in, but when she found out our last name, she really wanted us to drive to Steinbach, Manitoba, Canada because there is a huge group of Funk's in that area. When she told us that she would estimate it to be a 4 hour drive to southeast of Winnepeg, we pretty much decided that we wouldn't be doing that this time! She was a real character and had a wonderful Canadian accent . . . eh?
There is an International Music Camp here and we happened to arrive on the day that there was a concert. There were a lot of cars parked along the road to the Campground.
Canadian Maple Leafs
Just something I picked up at an earlier stop.
This picture is hard to tell what it is, but those are the flowers that they are growing for the gardens under a plastic tarp for a hot house. We were really too early for most of the flowers. The gardens are supposed to be more in bloom from July - September, so we are just a bit early and they have had so much rain this year, so the weather has been cooler.
This is a view of the Peace Tower.
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