Scope for the Imagination

Post from Liz:

As a lifelong Anne of Green Gables fan (both the L.M. Montgomery books as well as the Megan Fallows series), I couldn't wait to see the beautiful Prince Edward Island.  Our drive in did not disappoint - we sailed in over Canada's longest bridge and headed to the North side of the Island and the region of Cavendish. We puttered through potato fields and over red dirt roads and up and down hills. We passed shimmering lakes, all of which we dubbed the "Lake of Shining Waters", with picturesque farm houses in the distance.  The beach was crowded even at 4 pm (okay, crowded is a relative term), but we all splashed in the waves and read our books and soaked up the end of day sunshine.

We learned a few key PEI phrases - there was "talk of dirt coming" (bad weather on the way) and "Lord Tunder and Jaysus" it did rain and blow.

The weather did not cooperate with my plans to run through fields of flowers - torrential rains and strong winds made us glad we were not camping. We explored a fun used bookshop and tried an all you can eat sushi place.  We briefly braved the weather to walk along the waterfront in Summerside. There was an epic game of Monopoly where Trev cornered the Boardwalk-Park Place strip. Sometimes nature just hands you a down day.

We did make it to the Anne of Green Gables heritage site, sampled raspberry cordial, and enjoyed more drives through colorful countryside. The kids tolerated my randomly quoting entire passages from the move when so inspired.  

Thanks to insider tips we found a lovely uncrowded beach down a red dirt road and braved the clouds and COLD water. 

While I could have happily spent another few days there, my enduring memory of PEI will be the contrasting colors of the green pastures, the yellow wheat fields, the red dirt, and the blues of the sky and waters. Plenty of scope for the imagination (especially when the sun is shining!)