July 26

Friday, July 26, 2013

Had an interesting breakfast with a couple from Halifax and a couple from

Newfoundland at the B&B.  The guy from Halifax was actually from Britain

originally, so we had a real British breakfast conversation.  We discussed the Queen

and her dominion (including Canada), baby prince and etc.

Afterwards, we went to the Fundy Geological museum; it was really not that great,

very small and with only one tour (which starts at 10, so we were late for that).

From the museum, we made a dash to the Joggins Unesco fossil site (45 min drive).

We had to be there before the high tide precludes the access to the fossils.  The tour

of the fossil cliffs was really interesting; we saw lots of fossils, and kids actually

found a bunch.  We also found sea glass and other interesting things.

Afterwards, we started our long drive home.  Our first long drive was to Fredericton,

where we are stopping for the night.  We lucked out as they had Highland Games

in Fredericton, so after a very nice dinner at the Snotty Fox restaurant we went to

listen to more Scottish music.  It was raining really hard the whole day and by the

time we got there it was one continuous downpour.  They let us in for free, since

there were too few takers; but the music was great.  Unfortunately, the last band

was the bagpipe band, and it was so loud that we had to cover our ears.

We returned to our hotel around ten, exhausted.  Kids are ready to go home.  It is a

seven hour drive according to Google.