July 16

Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Last night, we went to bed with Sasha asking in the dark tent: “Mom, does tooth

fairy come in the tents?”  It was a rocky night, with a family of raccoons attacking

our garbage bag; they threw a real party, and Anna and I could not sleep for most

of the night.  In the morning, the neighboring Christian family with six children

brought us the some propane and noted that there is a raccoon family living nearby,

so we have to take the trash out.

The wind was really strong, so we decided to go to the Anne of Green Gables house

today.  It was unexpectedly good.  The house reproduced the life of 19

pretty well, with many interesting facts—such as when you say “sleep tight,” it

means you need to tighten the ropes on the rope bed you sleep on (on exhibit

second level).    We then walked the trails and tried on awesome hats.  We did not

try Anne’s favorite Raspberry Cordial ($2.75 a bottle).

Next, we gave up to Sasha’s requests and went to the amusement / water park in

Cavendish.  It was unexpectedly really good. They had a roller coaster (Sasha went

three times) and a toilet bowl water slide.  In addition, ponies, guinea pigs and lamas

were on display.  We had fun for about four hours.  

Then we went to COW’s Ice Cream (The best in the world, apparently—in a list

where Ben and Jerry’s is # 10), and took a detour to buy shrimp and PEI oysters

(really cheap).  We cooked shrimp on the grill and ate it with buckwheat and PEI

wince.  Delicious.