July 4, 2008
Circumstances beyond my control have kept me offline for longer than I definitely WANTED to be. I’ve been chomping to get a post up but well….you know, shit happens.
The trip started out on Tuesday morning and was fairly uneventful until just after lunch. Something I ate decided that it didn’t like me and I was VERY sick. This slowed us down considerably, seeing as I had to stop often to run to the bathroom. Grrrrrrr. I don’t know what did it either.
We stopped for the night at a Comfort Inn $68, not too bad, the room was clean and it was quiet. I was whipped and we all slept like the dead.
In the morning, feeling much better, we took off around 6 am. We made much better time and reached the border around 4 pm. The border crossing was easy, we didn’t have to wait and they only did a cursorily check of the trunk. We stopped briefly to say hi to one of my Dads friends, they live right ON the border and it is really back in the woods. I wish I had of taken some pictures but as usual, didn’t think of it until after we were driving away.
After stopping for dinner at a truckstop (ewww, not tasty) we pushed on. The last two hours were hell but we arrived around 10 pm. My Mom was standing outside the house, vibrating. Hehe.
That was Wednesday and today is Friday, I’m just getting around to writing something down. Yesterday I took some pictures of the garden, which is spectacular. This woman can grow anything and she does. Her house is the last one on the street and although I had seen pictures of it, it looks bigger in person. Don’t get me wrong, the house is tiny but once you’re inside it feels bigger. The wind blowing off the marsh is pretty constant and it keeps the bugs down but it also makes it COLD. I brought summer clothes, not realizing that their summer is like our fall. Luckily we all brought one pair of pants and some sweatshirts, which we are wearing daily. I miss Virginia, boo hoo, my tan is fading.
The Poppies.
Mom has a phenomenal garden. I swear that she can grow anything, anywhere.
The dead trees in town (that had Dutch Elm Disease) have been cut half-way down and then carved into various things by a local artist. They vary in content and even in placement. I thought the trees were carved in place but I guess the entire trunk is cut, carved somewhere else and then replaced. Odd.
This is an eagle carving that we walked past near my Moms house. There are a bunch more of people and animals, I'll try and snap them while I'm here.
Tomorrow we are planning on going to The Festival On The Marsh. Its a big artist thing held by Mount Allison U in nearby Sackville. It looks like it might be fun, I'll try and remember to take some pictures. Okay, thats it for now. I'm hoping to get a post up at least a couple times a week. Fingers crossed.
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