PEI Bound

My boyfriend and I left Ottawa last Thursday for our trip out East to Prince Edward Island.  It was sunny and warm when we left in Ottawa when we left so we drove with the top down until some spot in Quebec where the clouds threatened to open up and rain on us. My ice cream for the day was soft swirl cone.  We navigated around Montreal as we didn't want to travel through those crazy routes.  Our final destination on Thursday was Québec City in the Vieux-Québec (Old Québec) neighbourhood.  We walked around the cobble-stone streets in the pouring rain looking for a place to eat and finally settled on a place where we both had steak.  Yummy steak.

On Friday, July 1st, Canada Day, we ate breakfast at our hotel (Port Hotel-Royal Suites) and the service was very poor considering there were about 10 people dining in the restaurant and there were at least a couple of servers.  We even had to ask if we could get coffee and tea, they never asked if we wanted anything to drink.  Finally, after our long breakfast, we left Québec City, took a ferry to Levis and drove further east into New Brunswick.  The highway in New Brunswick opened up and it was just us with few other vehicles.  The roads were much better in New Brunswick than Québec. Since it was getting late and we were on vacation we decided to spend the night in Moncton, New Brunswick and celebrate Canada Day.  We checked in to our hotel (Delta Beausejour), which was downtown and right in the middle of the Canada Day celebration.  There were two stages with live music and loads of people walking around.  We went to The Old Triangle Irish Alehouse and nabbed a table just as people were getting up to leave.  We ate and had drinks and sadly, we missed the fireworks.  We walked around after our late supper to see what was going on.  I managed to get a swirl cone from an ice cream truck just as it was about to close.   

Saturday, we got up early and went for breakfast in our hotel's restaurant.  We had the buffet and it was so tasty especially compared to yesterday's breakfast.  It almost matched the Chateau Laurier's buffet spread.  We walked around downtown after breakfast and finally, we packed up and head out on the road again to PEI.  We drove across the Confederation Bridge, which is the world's longest bridge over ice-covered water, from NB to PEI.  We stopped on the other side of the bridge to take some pictures and drove the rest of the way to my boyfriend's parents' cottege near Maximeville, PEI on the Northumberland Strait.  We have a great view of the water from the many windows and deck.  

We drove into Summerside and tried the ice cream at Scooter's Dairy Bar.  I had pineapple-orange and it was refreshing and fresh.  We bought some groceries and I was in ice cream heaven at the store, so much selection to choose from.  I brought a flavour called Sticky Buns that is caramel ice cream, cinnamon, brown sugar and chunks of sticky bun.  It's very cinnamon and Nina, you would love it.  We returned to the cottage and went for a walk on the beach while the tide was out.  

We drove to Saint Ann's Church for a lobster supper on Saturday night. The chef special for the night was $37.99 instead of $39.99 for homemade seafood chowder or soup, mussels, caesar salad, 1 & 1/2 lbs of fresh lobster in the shell, with hot melted butter and it comes with fresh baked rolls, choice of potato, vegetables, dessert and a tea or coffee.  Dessert choices were strawberry shortcake (which I had), strawberry&rhubarb crisp, lemon meringue pie (which I had because it was the end of the night and the waitress was super special).  I wanted to try all of the desserts because they all sounded so good and were homemade.  I asked the waitress if they had a sampler plate.  The answer was no, but the waitress liked my idea of a sampler plate.

We spent yesterday and today relaxing at the cottage.  Yesterday the weather was beautiful, sunny and warm.  We spent most of yesterday outside on the deck getting some sun and walked on the red sandy beach as the tide went out.  We looked for sand dollars, but only saw clam shells and a few hermit crabs.  I also spent some time swinging in the chair hammock while I read.  Life can't get better than this. 

Tomorrow is a day for a exploration.