We had a short travel day today.  We left two and a half hours later than we planned because  it rained so hard last night, roads were flooded!  In a little while we are having a big dinner with the whole group.



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We have four exciting days scheduled here in Halifax, including city tours and the famous Tattoo.  While we were driving here, a stone hit the windshield and put a big chip in it.  Lucky for us we are staying put long enough to get it fixed.  It is also fully covered by insurance so it won't cost us anything.  So, not such a big deal overall.  

Tuesday, June 26th

Today is the day you get your new house!!!  Have fun exploring the new rooms!  Today was a travel day to Nova Scotia.  Once we arrived we visited a military museum.  It was very interesting.  Then we went to a huge grocery store and Grandpop bought a lobster pie and Grandmom bought crab cakes.  We also bought cookies and potato chips - we were hungry when we got to the market!!!  Here is Grandpop enjoying his lobster pie!

Yesterday I showed you a  picture of the flower pot rocks at low tide.  Here are the same rocks at high tide.   There are people kayaking where we were walking yesterday!

We also met a lobster fisherman unloading his catch.  He caught 1,000 (yes, one thousand!) pounds of lobster.  He goes out twice a week - that is one TON of lobster a week!  Here is what they use for bait, it is a frozen block of fish.  They break off some and put it in the trap:

When the tide goes out, their boats are sitting in the mud.  To keep them from falling over, they use a little wooden structure they call a cradle.  They lower it down next to the boat before the tide goes out.  As the water leaves, the boat starts to rest against the cradle.  When the tide is completely out, the cradle is the only thing keeping the boat from falling over.  You can see the cradle under the light green boat.

This might be a better picture of a cradle:

This last picture is just a pretty view:

Sunday, June 24th.

  We are at the Bay of Fundy.  They have the highest tides in the world here.  They also have what they call "flower pot" rocks.  As the tide comes in each day, it carves away a little of the rocks and gives them their shape.  Here is a picture of them from the road at low tide. - see how far away the people look and  how far the tide is out:

We had to climb down a long staircase to get to the bottom.  Grandmom is afraid of heights, but managed to get to the bottom without crying!

They have named some of the rocks.  One of these is called dinosaur rock and the other is called E.T.  Can you tell which is which?

We also found a beautiful Luna Moth.  He was trapped in some seaweed and soaking wet.  The Park Ranger rescued him and took him to the Ranger Station to dry out so he could fly again:

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Spent a great day sight seeing.  Below are some pictures of the views.  But the highlight of the drive was the "HA HA Cemetery"!!!!

We have seen a number of covered bridges.  This is the only one that was painted.  We were told the reason the bridges  are covered is because they had a hard time getting horses to cross the rivers when they could see the rushing water.  So they covered the bridges to block the horses' view.

We found out later that the Cemetery is built along side a river that was named by the "First Nation" (Canadian Indians).   They called it the Ha Ha river. 

Saturday, June 23rd.

Today was a travel day and not much to report.  Except while we were driving Grandmom thought she saw a moose and quickly got on the radio to alert the other rvs to look to their right to see it.  It turns out Grandmom got on the radio too quickly as the "moose" turned out to me a horse.  Now everyone is having fun teasing Grandmom and calling every horse they see a "moose" (especially Grandpop!!!!!  LOL)

Friday June 23rd

In this campground, there is a pond where a family of beavers have build a huge dam.  We were able to watch the beavers swim out from the dam (also called a "lodge"), go to the water's edge, find a stick, and swim back to the lodge with the stick in his mouth.  I couldn't get a picture of  the beaver, but here is a picture  of the lodge.

We were talking with a fisherman and he took us into his hut to show us the huge lobsters he caught that day.  Here is a picture:

Yesterday I told you about the Looney and Tooney.  Here is a picture.  The Looney ($1 coin) is on the  left and the Tooney ($2 coin) is on the right

 Today we took a bus tour to see some ocean caves that were carved out of rock by the tides.  We were surprised how big and deep they are!  Here are a couple pictures at low tide where we could walk inside them.  See how the tide is out and we are actually walking on the ocean floor.  Look how far out the water is!  

And  here is a picture we took about an hour later when the tide was coming back in. Look how high the water is now!!  If we were still standing inside the cave at this time, the water would have been over Grandpop's head!

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Tuesday, June 19th

Today we drove into Canada.  Although it is a different country, the people here speak English just like to we at home.  Grandpop lead the caravan so we had to get up at 6 o'clock in the morning to get out early.  We now are so far north that we are on a different time zone.  When it is 3 o'clock at home, it is 4 o'clock here.  This campground has internet at the office, so I am able to send this  post.  When we got to the campground I saw a Canadian coin on the ground and picked it up.  I just looked at now (5 hours later) - it is a $2 coin.  WHOOHOO!  They do not have one dollar paper money - they use one and two dollar coins instead.  They call the one dollar coin the "Looney" and the two dollar coin is called a "Tooney"!

This for the adults following the blog: 

We had an exciting crossing into Canada.  We were the lead car of the caravan.  The border guard asked if we had any alcohol, plants that were not food or firearms.  We replied yes to a half a box of wine and negative to all the rest.  I guess we looked like alcoholics as they had us pull over.  A nice female guard came back to our rig to check it out.  We showed  her our half a box of wine.  That was fine.  She then started looking in ALL cabinets and storage spaces.  When she got to the pantry she found a bottle of bourbon I keep to cook fresh salmon in.  It is not something we drink and so we forgot all about it.  We also forgot about the bottle of rum for my rum cake.  Unfortunately I had grabbed a bottle of Bailey's from the basement that I had totally forgot about also (HONESTLY!!!!!).  Once she saw that, she  wanted to go through the rig with a fine tooth  comb and we had to put out the slides and open all the outside compartments.  In the compartment we had some fire wood - something else that is a no-no.  We bought the wood in Canada (it is so marked) on our last trip and it was kiln dried and certified bug free.  So she said that was ok as long as she didn't find anything else.  Then she got to the car and found my potted herbs.  I explained that the guard said that plants for food was ok.  She said no, we misunderstood somehow because they could not allow the dirt in.  So no potted plants are allowed, food or not.

We spent at least an hour there.  They took our bourbon and rum, our herbs and firewood.  Pleasantly though.  I was also relieved that we did not have to pay any fine.  The bad part is that we held up the most important part of the caravan as it was our job to arrive early and get everything ready for the rest of the group. (not to mention the three rigs traveling with us had to wait at the border for us!) So we felt a little like dirt bags.  Also felt bad that the guards probably thought we were lying through our teeth and trying to sneak the stuff in.  It is kind of funny as we took out all the wine and beer we usually carry as we knew what the limit is!   Darn my short term memory!!!!  LOL

Spent the day in Acadia National Park.  Beautiful views from mountain tops.  We had lunch by the ocean in a cafe that served us huge popovers which are like big donuts with an empty center.  They were as big as grapefruit!!  Grandpop had lobster stew, of course!  Then we went to a stable where Grandmom had fun feeding the horses grass from around their pen.  The horses were in heaven and thought Grandmom was their      personal chef!!  Tomorrow we drive into Canada.  If we  have internet, I'll post.  If not I will save the posts until we do.

Monday, June 18, 2012.   WHOOHOO!  We are in Bar Harbor Maine.  Your Grandfather had his second lobster dinner and is ready for more.   We are right on the ocean and it is beautiful here.  We will be here today and tomorrow and then it is off to Canada.  We are making a lot of new friends and eating too much junk food!  No pictures to post today.

Today was the first "leg" of the trip.  We drove 128 miles to the Desert Dunes of Maine.  Here are pictures of how the cats spend their time when we are driving.  Marly likes to sit on the dash board.  Keys hides under Grandpop's seat!

  Grandpop lead our group of three rvs.  On the way he kept everyone amused by telling tales of his youth in this area.  The other rvs traveling with us enjoyed the stories so much they awarded Grandpop the "Lighthouse" award.  Here is a picture.

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Saturday, June 16th - today was a free day and we stayed home doing laundry and getting ready to leave tomorrow. We will leave in groups of 3 rvs at a time about 20 minutes apart. We are in the third group (of five) to leave. We will be going to Maine where Grandpop is hoping he will find a nice lobster dinner.

Today we met a lady (not part of our group) who had 22 (yes, twenty-two!) cats in her RV.  She took us in to see them.  They were all different sizes and colors - I wish I  had a picture of that!

Friday, June 15th - felt a little better so decided to join everyone on the bus tour of Boston.  It was a fun tour and we learned a lot of History.  Tell mommy to look for a book called "Make way for ducklings"  We saw statutes of the momma duck and the little ducklings from the book.  Here is a picture of them.  We also saw the "Swan" boats.  Over 12 people rode in them and the man steering it had to pedal it like a bicycle with all those people on it!  Here is a picture of that too!

Thursday, June 14th. First night of our trip to the Maritimes. Everyone gathered for a meeting at dinner time. I was feeling sick to my stomach, but went anyway. After a few minutes, I started feeling sicker and thought I better go back to the motor home. I only got about 10 feet away before I started throwing up in front of everyone! It was so embarrassing!! I tried to hind behind a pole, but they still saw me. UGH! My friend Lorraine, who is a nurse, came over and helped me get back to the motor home. What a way to make a first impression!