We Made It To Canada!

Hi all! I'm writing to you from Moncton, New Brunswick! It's 9:30pm and the sun is just setting. We spent a great weekend in Bar Harbor, ME. Jacob finally got to have his Maine lobster dinner and he loved it! (Emma had a bright pink hot dog...we're not sure why it was so pink, but she loved it!) We went to Acadia National Park and saw Sand Beach and Thunder Hole. (Auntie Jen, please tell Uncle Sean that the water temperature in Maine is...cold!)  Yes, we did put our toes in the water, but that was it! We found a great campground in Bar Harbor with extrememly helpful people. It felt like family...Ruth and Tom helped us! It was like Grammy Rufus came down as an angel in Ruth! She helped us with so many things. Being our first night "hooking up" in a campground ("hooking up" has a whole new meaning now!), she helped us with everything and then Tom came by to make sure we were all set. We saw fireworks last night; before they started, the entire crowd of thousands of people sang the National Anthem...it was very cool!

 

We left Bar Harbor this morning at around 10:30 and drove most of the day. Maine is VERY rural when you get east of Bangor! We went through some towns that didn't even seem to have names...Township 26 and Township 29! I'm not sure if that was the name of the town, or the population! When we crossed into Canada we pushed the clocks ahead an hour, so by the time we pulled into this campground it was about 5:30 local time. Long day on the road, but traveling in the RV is great. The kids were fantastic; it helps that they can get up and move around. The drive was uneventful, although these darn Canadians and their metric system threw us a little! Quick...is a clearance of 4 meters enough?!?! Yes, there are 3.3 feet in a meter, which most of us know, until you are 100 feet from a bridge and in panic mode!

 

The weather is warmer than I expected here, we even went for a swim when we got here today. The kids have been riding their bikes, we had a campfire and cooked dinner outside, and then made s'mores. I even have a load of laundry in...which reminds me that I need to walk over and put them in the dryer now! Anyway, we're having a great time and are looking forward to making it to Newfoundland. Tomorrow we will finish the drive to North Sydney, Nova Scotia and we'll get on the ferry. It leaves at 11:30pm and gets us to Newfoundland around 4:00 in the afternoon on Thursday. Not sure when I'll have accesss to wifi again, may not be until Thursday night. But I'll update again as soon as I get a chance.