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46 2015 SPRING/SUMMER EVENTS & ITINERARIES GUIDE Winnipeg Saddle up on that cycle and feel the rush of wind in your hair as the cupids fly overhead slinging you two love birds with arrows of youthful exuberance. Leaving downtown, set your sights on Wellington Crescent where your path will take you past Winnipeg's most stately homes and into Assiniboine Park, where a stroll through the Leo Mol Sculpture Garden awaits. This tranquil garden contains more than 300 awe-inspiring works from Mol, the renowned Ukrainian Canadian sculptor, including depictions from Greek mythology like Europa and the Bull, which if you know your classics is pretty much foreplay. From there, have a picnic amongst Assiniboine Park's expansive green spaces. You could pick up lunch from The Park Café at the Qualico Family Centre, then take a seat in one of Assiniboine Park's six other gardens where floral fragrances hang in the air like your wanton desires. Once you've sufficiently taken your fill in nature, do as the locals do and get yourself over to Bridge Drive-In (BDI). No spot in the city can claim to have kindled more relationships as BDI is the spot where high school couples get soft serve cones before yearning to hold each other's sticky, ice cream-laden hands as they stroll over the Elm Park Bridge. This amour often continues later in life, as elderly and middle-aged couples have made BDI their Sunday night tradition, honouring the site where their love first caught flame. If you are looking to get real steamy, boy do I have a spot for you. It's called Thermëa by Nordik Spa-Nature, a Scandinavian spa so exquisite that its very name, when whispered amongst the pines of the Fort Garry neighbourhood, will bring you to pure, sensual bliss, as if its eucalyptus vapours were nibbling at your ear. All you need is a bathing suit, a robe and some flip flops, and this place will do the rest with its hot thermal pools, its steamy and dry saunas, and its cold pools and waterfall, which are all meant to use in a hot-cold-hot cycle. Thermëa offers hours of total body rejuvenation. It's ideal for couples as you'll need someone to rub the invigorating and exfoliating lavender salts on your back between steam room sessions. Plus, they have tantalizing dining for lunch and dinner where – get this – you can only eat in robes. You can spend all day and night here (they don't close until 10 p.m.), so make your romantic plans to do so. As night falls, take in an indulgent romantic dinner on Winnipeg's best patio at 529 Wellington. This converted mansion brings white tablecloth dinning to the banks of the Assiniboine River in a garden setting whose al la carte menu (featuring top-notch dry-aged steaks) and first class service will have you swooning. After dinner, go get cozy in Assiniboine Park where outdoor movies, Ballet in the Park and nightly concerts will see you on the grass in a blanket under the stars (which is as romantic as it gets). Thermëa by Nordik Spa-Nature: Nordik Group Assiniboine Park: Zyron Paul Felix PASS WINNIPEG WWW.WINNIPEGPASS.COM EXPERIENCE MORE FOR LESS TOURISTS ๏ STUDENTS ๏ FAMILIES ๏ LOCALS BUY ONLINE OR AT SELECT LOCATIONS □ Museums □ Festivals □ Special Offers □ Leisure Activities □ Art Galleries □ Heritage Sites □ Nature □ Theatre □ Tours □ Attractions