July 4: PEI

Ok, so PEI is my favorite province so far this trip!  Maybe it’s because the sun has been shining but I think there is more to it than that.  We started out our day by checking out Greenwich National Park which has a beautiful white sand beach that we had all to ourselves!  

We took a nice morning stroll, listening to the "singing sand" as it squished between our toes.   We also made sure to take my belly shot because today I am 25 weeks prego!

  

Last week according to “the bump” website the baby was about a pound.  This week, it could be close to 1.5 pounds meaning it’s grew half it's size in one week…And I can feel it!  It’s been getting harder and harder to get up or get out of the tent!  I have managed to fall into the tent a few times as I lose my balance and unfortunately for Carl, one of those falls was on him in the middle of the night when I had to crawl over him to get out and pee! 

Carl wanted his photo taken too... 

After our lovely stroll it was off to Charlottetown.  Charlottetown has a nice downtown right on the water with several stores and restaurants, many of them catering to the "Anne of Green Gable" fans, me of course being one of them... 

...And Carl following suit.

I remember watching "Anne of Green Gables" and "Road to Avonlea" as a kid so this brought back many memories for me.  Cavendish (which we visited next) is where the author of the books grew up and did most of her writing.  All of her novels except one, were based in the area of Cavendish.  

After walking around town we decided to splurge and get a lobster lunch!  This was both mine and Carl’s first time trying lobster (the McLobster doesn’t count) and we enjoyed it! 

From Charlottetown we headed to Cavendish to see the Anne’s house, Lover’s Lane and the area that Anne of Green Gables was set in.   

After that, one last stop in PEI was in Darnley to see the contrast between the white sand beach and the red sand beach (east has more white sand while west has red sand).  It was gorgeous!  

If we had more time, we would have loved to stay longer in PEI and spent more time on the beaches!  I loved just driving through the rolling green hills of PEI, passing potato fields and farmland, seeing the rich red soil that looked much like the soil in Uganda.  PEI has a calmness to it, a relaxed feel that we were much in need of!  We were sad to leave but this evening we took the 13km Confederation Bridge over to New Brunswick.  We are currently just outside of Moncton and plan to bomb through the rest of New Brunswick to make it to our final destination, Quebec City!