Week 4: New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island Trip

I made my annual summer trip home to NB to visit the family, and friends who are practically family. 

PEI

I spent a night in PEI in search of something new to explore and found the cutest village called Victoria.  It reminded me of the small fishing villages in NB like Peggy's Cove.  It was a bit tricky to find the place and my map App took us on what felt like a wild goose chase, but we made it.  The nearby beach was filled with cool little critters like crabs and snails. 

The Drive

    

Victoria Provincial Park

 

These are pics from Victoria.  Can you tell the weather sucked?

This was the motel we stayed at in PEI:  Carleton Motel.  It was very simplistic but served its purpose for a night.  What do you expect for $65?

Why buy prints when you can simply take a picture of them for free?  So pretty.

Here's a new food adventure for me:  chocolate covered chips from Cows, PEI.  They are actually quite tasty with a nice combo of salty and sweet.






NB

My adventurous endeavor in NB was sea kayaking the highest tides in the world at the Bay of Fundy's Hopewell Rocks.  If you've never been to Hopewell Rocks you should definitely put it on your bucket list of things to see.  The rock formations alone are beautifully stunning, but the extreme low and high tides are the real show.  At low tide you can walk out on the ocean floor in ankle deep mud for miles and miles.  But at high tide you can't even get down the stairs to the beach.  In fact, there is no beach, only water.  I took lots of pics to show the drastic changes from low to high tide and tried to capture our experience of what it was like to kayak around and through the rocks.  I have kayaked before in Canada and the Caribbean but this was truly an awe-inspiring treat.  It was fairly easy and great for anyone in decent shape.  I would definitely recommend sea kayaking The Rocks.  Here's their link:  www.baymountadventures.com

Low Tide

High Tide

 



The motel we stayed at in Hopewell Cape (Hopewell Rocks Motel) was super cute and quite great as far as motels go.  It has a pretty view of the water, an outdoor heated pool, and continental breakfast.  It's also less than a 5 min. drive to The Rocks.  It was totally worth $100 in my opinion.  

This is the view from the back porch of my room. 

Week 3 - Summerlicious, Take 3

Tonight we had dinner in Little Portugal at Lisbon By Night.  It was another first.  I enjoyed my appetizer and dessert but not the entre.  I thought that seafood risotto would be quite good, but I keep forgetting the fact that I don't like seafood and this doesn't seem to change with time.  Oh well.  I would suggest people to give this restaurant a try.  In the future I will include pics of the food to show everyone. 

Week 2 Ends Excitingly

Friday Night's Summerlicious Dinner:  Embrujo Flamenco on the Danforth

First of all the Summerlicious menu states the cost at $25 per person, however, they tell you it's a minimum of $35 per person because of the live entertainment.  That alone annoys me enough to never return.  I'm including a video and a pic of the live entertainment they surcharged me for.  The food?  It was OK.

Saturday's Trip to Niagara Falls:  Safari Niagara & Whirlpool Jet Boat Tour

Safari Niagara:

I enjoyed Safari Niagara and would recommend it.  I got to feed a giraffe out of my hand.  I had no idea their tongues were so long!  I also tried catch and release fishing, although the fish were too smart in our area.  The hardest part was actually trying to hook the worm.  It was quite disturbing at first.  It's noteworthy to mention that we were the only people who didn't catch any fish:(

Whirlpool Jet Boat Tour:

This was really cool.  The boat goes 60 miles per hour along the river crashing through a series of rapids that get you very wet.  It was thrilling and exciting.  Bring a change of clothing for sure.

 

 



Week 2 Continued... Food & Travel

Yesterday I tried Toronto's Summerlicious.  We went to Big Daddy's Bourbon Street Bistro & Oyster Bar.  They serve Cajun and Creole cuisine.  Lunch is a preset price of $15 which includes a 3 course meal.  I enjoyed the clam chowder and bread pudding, but the jambalaya was mediocre at best.  Tomorrow I'm trying Summerlicious at Embrujo Flamenco for dinner.  I'll let you know how it goes.

Today, at the D&H staff appreciation luncheon, I got to try an electric scooter.  It was quite cool.  It would be great for a non-driving city dweller. 

Week 2 is all about the techology... so far anyway

Yesterday I went to the island with a couple of friends from work; that's not the adventurous part because I've been to the islands many times.  It was a nice visit though. 

The remainder of my day was sitting here on my couch attempting to create this blog.  So far, so good actually.  I started another blog last week but after committing plenty of time in getting it started I later realized that it was free as a trial for one month only.  That's no good.  I have to give credit to Kyla for giving me this link to blog with Google.  I never had a Google account.  Anyway, so far I'm pleased with Google's Blogger and will continue to keep anyone who will read this updated.  I know that people are having difficulty posting comments so I'm going to try to figure out how to fix it. 

Last night I also attempted to post a video on YouTube for the first time.  That was a lot harder than I thought it would be.  I still don't really know how to do it but I'm not giving up.  It's a good job I have so much time on my hands. 

The Beginning

This is my second attempt at creating a blog.  My purpose in blogging is to create an outlet for sharing my adventures during my year off from work.  I consider an adventure to be anything that is a new experience for me and noteworthy. 

To summarize week 1:
-saw Corey Hart in concert (he was OK; I only heard about 1.5 songs)
-went to the Chin Picnic (it was a bit boring)
-walked to and from The Beach from my place with ease (now I know I can walk further distances)
-went to the Honda Indy (now that was quite cool; very fast and loud)