We arrived two nights ago shortly after 7pm having spent the day driving through New Brunswick where we got to travel across the Hartland covered bridge not once, but twice! Yes people, twice! Why do you care? Why am I excited? Why twice for heaven's sake? Well, the Hartland covered bridge, at 391 metres, is the world's longest covered bridge. While crossing it was not required to get us where we we were going, hence crossing it again, it was a required activity, well, just cuz. I'm sure you understand. The boys and I made the return crossing by foot.
Look! Now with pictures! I finally took the time to find an easy to use resize app for my android tablet. See, I didn't want to be uploading all of these 6Mb pictures to the blog. You may not care about how your bandwidth gets used, but I certainly do. Anyway, most of the free photo editors I had found in Google Play don't actually resize images. Yes I am about to complain about something that is free, but don't get me started on what the actual price of "free" is these days when it comes to services and apps available online And you wonder why so many people seem to have an overdeveloped sense of entitlement.
Are blog and rant synonymous?
Anyway, I finally got clever, actually my friend Marc did and I was listening, so I searched under image resize and low and behold Resized. Tada! Easy to install, easy to use, and now I can break up the monotony of my endless babble with pretty pictures of stuff along the way.
The taller one is Noah. The one you can see is Jake. I'm the one taking the picture. Expect this to be a trend in the coming year, unless of course Jake has an enormous growth spurt. Could happen.
Anyway, we travelled across the bridge a couple of times. Sherri even got a certificate for proof. The Lion's Club offers them for $2.00 as a fundraiser. An excellent investment if you're looking for some sort of certificate to frame and hang behind your desk in case you're wanting to add a bit of professionalism into your working atmosphere, assuming of course you have a desk. As long as no one reads it you should be okay.
I digress. You may have noticed.
We stopped for a late lunch at Catch 22 in Moncton. This may be old news if we're friends on Facebook. Fish 'n Chips and Lobster rolls all around. Very good. Highly recommended.
We arrived at our friends Philip and Heather's in Lunenburg, as I mentioned already, about 7ish. Philip and Heather are friends of all of ours going back various spans depending on if you're Marc, Sherri, me or Noah and Jake. Suffice to say they are wonderful people we love to spend time with and have gotten to do so pretty consistently the past few New Years when they visit Kitchener, but the boys and I have never been out to visit them before. Hence one of the reasons for coming out east.
Now, I'm not sure how to handle this part, so bear with me. I'm quite aware of the fact that what I write in this blog is not just about me, it is about who I am with, and who we may meet along the way. Things happen to each of us. Some of them are shared, some of them are unique to the individual. While I get to choose what I write about for my own experiences here, I don't believe I have carte blanche to write about everyone else. So I ask first, and if the answer is "no thank you" then I don't write about it. And that is what happened at this point. That said I need to cap off the end of the first evening in Lunenburg (or perhaps I don't and am just not a good enough writer to figure out how to gracefully seque into yesterday) and I don't want to lie and say we had a nice quiet evening chatting because we didn't. Perhaps at a point in the future I'll be able to fill this in, but for now I'll just label this point Privacy Point #1 and move on. Oh, I will add though that everyone is okay, and that there is nothing at all for anyone to worry about. Promise.
Canada Day was a quiet day for us, and apparently that is true for much of Lunenburg, and the rest of Nova Scotia. Who knew? Bu there you go.
We spent the day hanging out at Philip and Heather's (a theme for the coming week by the way) and were joined by their friends (in fine east coast tradition now our friends too) Craig, his daughter Betsy, and Chris and Selena, and their kids Astrid, Julian and Sevy. The kids are all in and around Meara's age (that's Philip and Heather's daughter) and they spent the day doing what little kids do - trampoline, pool, running, screaming. Good times. Quiet is a relative term I guess.
Craig is an arbourist turned distiller at Ironworks Distillery here in Lunenburg. Chris is a hydrogeologist who does ocean surveys and is off to the arctic soon to chart some of our northern sovereign waters, and Selena just finished a very busy two months being one of the production managers for the Right Some Good festival that just happened in Halifax. Basically they all do seriously cool things and were a lot of fun to spend Canada Day with.
Like all good Canada Days there was a barbeque, but there were also lots of mussels, a favourite of everyone's. These were done by Philip. A few different broths, one whose base was Goat Scrotum, a stout beer that Philip has been brewing. Did I mention he was an amatuer brewer? See, cool people. Fun conversation, great food. A wonderful day that ended sitting around the fire pit in the backyard being eaten alive by mosquitoes.
So it was a quiet day, and one which, after a few days of driving, we were all happy to have I suspect.
Happy Birthday Canada. We'll miss you when we go.
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