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Charlottetown

Today was a great day for one specificreason that I'll get to I a second.

The day started offwell, breakfast inthe hotel with a woman from Florida who had never even heard of PEI until Regis and Kelly came here. 
We spent the dya I the town and visited Province house, the birthplace of confederation and the building is still unused forthe Pei legislative assembly! We watched the 17 minute parks canada video about the charlottetown conference and I have a few comments:
1. Parks canda needs to provide thei guides with more flattering outfits... Those green shorts are not doing anything for anyone. Let's be honest.
2. Parks Canada needs to invest in promotional material... The video looked like a grade 8 reenactment of a 17 minute long Heritage Moment, but got the point across nonetheless .
3. Apparently the idea of Canada was created by a bunch of drunk white dudes, with bad stick k bears.... According to parks Canada. It was pretty great though and neat to see the actual rooms and furniture. But the best was yet to come.

Little did we know that we were about to be in the company of Young Company, a young peoples theater  company who were putting on "Abegweit: The Soul of the Island" part of the Canadian Series, (I assume there Are troupes across the country putting on pieces about their own provinces.) This group went to the olympics folks... They were great. You better believe we got a picture with them after the show. They were  a very talented group of young people and we learned a lot about Pei via song including:
1. Some used to call it Abegweit, some called it ile st jean something something something but we'll always call it home.
2. The red soil stains your heart like it stains your White shoes
3. Islanders like that they have a beach and the sense of community... A lot
4. Canada is made for love
5. Sonar destroyed the fisheries and many awakward and serious pop songs were written about it
6. Raise your hand and praise the lord thank god for the farmers rustico bank
7. Islanders are really good at choreograped dances
8. Aaron hastelow.... You are going places, Big places
Keep up the excellent work Young Company you were fantastic and we thoroughly enjoyed your performance, well done.

After that we wandered around Charlottetown, checked out Cows and bought some ice cream and local beers.

Our night was topped off with the hotel pool and the 105 ft waterslide that I'm pretty sure is illegal, the entire pool had a current because of the force of the water slide. We a lovely dinner intown complete with live Jazz on the street!

Thanks for the great times Charlottetown! On to cavendish and Anne's house! We'll stay out if the raspberry cordial!

Have a great day!
Kate