Cavendish cavendish cavendish!
What a place! I remember being in PEI when I was younger but didn't really remember any specifics.
We made the hefty drive(30min) from Charlottetown and checked into our hotel cottage for the night.
The cottage was great, it was on a dairy farm and I feel like they took everything out of a movie, even down to the kittens drinking the milk froman overturned bucket. It was very cute. The owner was very into old farmyard country decorations, cloth wreaths, beanie babies, the whole works it was great!
I sort of don't believe that pei is a real place. Everyone we met was the perfect example of an idealized country grandpa. Every inch of the town and surrounding area looks like it was taken out of a story book. It's unreal an fantastic I love it.
Now thati think about it it may seem so storybookish because cavendish is the setting for one of the most popular Canadian books!
Jocelyn and I went to visit The house and setting of Anne of Green Gables! We drank our Raspberry Cordial, walked lovers lane and the haunted wood. We took hilarious pictures outside the house and walked out just as the bus tourists showed up!
we finished our visit and headed back to the cottage.
We watched the milking of the cows and checked out the day old calf inthe bar before we headed to the beach for a bit down an old tractor path.
We strolled along the perfect beach complete with washed up lobster traps until it got chilly and we headed back up to the cottage to make our roast and potatoes.
Now this is the part of the evening that really completed our pei stay. First we drove out to watch the sunset and I don't think I've ever seen anyhhing like it. Sunset with the red dunes, every picture looked like a postcard.
We made a fantastic roast, made our pot of tea, popped our popcorn and watched Anne of greengables ( both!) on VHS under the blankets. It was basically picture perfect...
We woke up to the cows mooing inthe fields behind us and checked out unfortunatly... I could have stayed muchlonger, but it was beach day!
We headed to cavendish beach and relaxed ALL day. If I didn't have to, I don't think I would have ever left Pei. I highly suggest a vist, if only for the Cows icecream.
We drove to Monctonthat night over the Confederation bridge and met up with Kyle!
How nice to stay in a house! We haven't been travelling that ling but even still it was a welcome change. Kyle and his fam were amazing. I don't think I've had such amazing Pesto before! We hung out hat night and got some rest for our big adventure the next day!
Friday morning we said goodbye to Emily and Kyle showed us around the town! GORGEOUS! We went to Hopewell Rocks, which has the largest tides in NA, thatchange twice ina 25 hour period. We walked through the mud, but don't worry dad I took my shoes off so I didn't loose them this time.
If youngonthe Hopewell, get your feet ready. You needto walk barefoot I the mud but there are sharp little rocks everywhere just waiting to cut up your feet.
We finished at Hopewell and Kyle took us to Laverty Falls inFundy Progincial Park.
Basically every day I think that things could not get much better but every day I'm proven wrong! I don't really believe that all of this is in this one tiny part of our country. We walked the trails and ended up at a pretty secluded swimming hole along the river. Jocelyn and I took our sea maiden pictures and convinced Kyle to do thesame. "Swan dive into the best night of your life" It was pretty unreal. The rocks were basically shaped into underwater chairs. I don't even really know how to describe it. I'll just have to show you pictures.
We hiked backed up and hopped inthe car and back to Hopewell to see if we could catch high tide.... No dice it had already pretty much gone out already. We did however have the ride of our lives on the shuttle with Kenny, amazing, thanks Kenny, shuttle driver extraordinaire.
We hung out that night and watched a movie, nothing too overly exciting, it was just nice to be ina house!
Moncton day two!
I'm pretty sure I will have visited pretty much every farmers Market in this country by the end of This trip, it's great! We hit up two markets in moncton their morning. It's Acadian celebration day tomorrow so everyone was decked out I thei red White blue and yellow stars! It's pretty cool there is so much french as NB is the only real and 100% bilingual province.
This afternoon Kyle showed us his beach shediac which apparantly I've been too. I only knew this because of the giant lobster I town. I'm pretty sure there is a very old picture of Al and I posing with it. We hung out on the beach and got all the lifeguard gossip before it was time to pack up and head to Saint John.
Jocelyn and I are slowly making our way up to MontreAl now. There could be some cross border shopping happening quite soon. In I Know there will be some CB shopping.
Thank you Kyle and the fam for being such amazing hosts! You're Amazing!!!!
I'm going to try and nit use data inthe states so my update might be a little larer....
Until then!
Have a great day!
Kate
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