Monday, June 30, 2008
Canada: Day 6
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ted the day off with Blueberry pancakes, a scone, bacon, a plum and coffee. I also tried blueberry pomegranate juice and grapefruit juice. My preferred choice of juice was still grape though. Our first stop of the day was Lucy Maud Montgomery’s home where she got married. Apparently people from all over the world come there to get married. The Japanese culture loves Anne of Green Gables. In fact, the books were translated into Japanese because they look up to her character so much.
All the furniture in the house was the original furniture when Lucy lived there. There were guest books everywhere we visited, so we made it a point to sign our names wherever we went. They served us tea and cookies after we toured the home and then we took another carriage ride…this time by the Lake of Shining Waters.
We drove to the L.M. Montgomery school at Lower Bedeque where Lucy taught for about a year in 1898. She had 14 students and taught until March of that year when her Grandfather died and she went back to Cavendish to care for her Grandmother. This
school was used up until 1963 and then closed. The property continued decaying until the middle 1980’s when they decided to restore the school. It’s kept open today for tourists by the Friends of Lucy Maud Montgomery Inc. It runs completely on donations.
We enjoyed some more sea food for lunch at Gateway Village. I had the best Clam
Chowder ever. We did a little more shopping here as well. We soon found out if you’d been to one gift shop, you’d been to them all. The good news was if you couldn’t decide if you wanted to purchase something at one of them, you just had to wait until the next gift
shop and you’d pretty much be guaranteed to find the same thing there.
We had devotions overlooking the Confederation Bridge…it’s a nine mile bridge over a 7 mile bay. We took this bridge back to Nova Scotia rather than riding the ferry again. But not until after we traveled back to Charlottetown and saw the Anne of Green Gable’s Musical. It was quite an entertaining musical although a bit different than the movie, book, or play. I enjoyed it non-the-less. We hopped on the bus after enjoying the show and started to head for home.
ted the day off with Blueberry pancakes, a scone, bacon, a plum and coffee. I also tried blueberry pomegranate juice and grapefruit juice. My preferred choice of juice was still grape though. Our first stop of the day was Lucy Maud Montgomery’s home where she got married. Apparently people from all over the world come there to get married. The Japanese culture loves Anne of Green Gables. In fact, the books were translated into Japanese because they look up to her character so much.
All the furniture in the house was the original furniture when Lucy lived there. There were guest books everywhere we visited, so we made it a point to sign our names wherever we went. They served us tea and cookies after we toured the home and then we took another carriage ride…this time by the Lake of Shining Waters.
We drove to the L.M. Montgomery school at Lower Bedeque where Lucy taught for about a year in 1898. She had 14 students and taught until March of that year when her Grandfather died and she went back to Cavendish to care for her Grandmother. This
school was used up until 1963 and then closed. The property continued decaying until the middle 1980’s when they decided to restore the school. It’s kept open today for tourists by the Friends of Lucy Maud Montgomery Inc. It runs completely on donations.We enjoyed some more sea food for lunch at Gateway Village. I had the best Clam
Chowder ever. We did a little more shopping here as well. We soon found out if you’d been to one gift shop, you’d been to them all. The good news was if you couldn’t decide if you wanted to purchase something at one of them, you just had to wait until the next gift
shop and you’d pretty much be guaranteed to find the same thing there.We had devotions overlooking the Confederation Bridge…it’s a nine mile bridge over a 7 mile bay. We took this bridge back to Nova Scotia rather than riding the ferry again. But not until after we traveled back to Charlottetown and saw the Anne of Green Gable’s Musical. It was quite an entertaining musical although a bit different than the movie, book, or play. I enjoyed it non-the-less. We hopped on the bus after enjoying the show and started to head for home.
Jamie at 8:47 PM
