July 20

Saturday, July 20, 2013

We stayed pretty late with the beautiful campfire last night; Nicolas did not want

to go to bed, he liked the fire so much.  Finally, he threw his fire-tending stick into

the pit and went to bed.  Half an hour later, he asked me from the tent, is my stick

burned completely? And I said yes.  And he started crying.  Then I went into the tent

and Anna got out, and I read him Tom Sawyer, which never fails to put both kids to

sleep.

In the morning, we woke up early and got the campsite packer.  Nick and Sasha were

playing on the playground.  It was really sad to leave Brudnell.   Hope to come here

some day. We then drove to the ferry, and sailed to Nova Scotia.

Our first stop in NS was in Antigonish, we ate at the main street pizza parlor

(surprisingly good midetterenian fare).  The town itself was pretty nice, wish we

could stay there more (they had the annual Evolve festival at the time, but it is not

feasible with kids).

Finally, at around 4:30, we were at Mabou River Inn.  The day got extremely hot,

and we reluctantly went to the West Mabou beach.  It turned out to be a gorgeous

beach… mountains with little cottages and pastures around a sand dune.  Warm,

shallow water.  We spent a good deal of time there, and I even made friends with

a M’iqua (native American) dude.   He showed me how to catch jellyfish and gave

recommendations on local beer.  I later met him, his kids and “his woman” at the

grocery store—people in Cape Breton eat dinner really early, and restaurants close

at 7.  We had to eat in the little kitchen in the B&B. We were then too exhausted to

go to the 10 pm family step dance, and went to bed.  Celidihs tomorrow!!!

End of day odometer: approx. 1100, it is thunder and lightning out, I don’t want to

run to get the exact figure.