Sept 6, Flower Pot Rocks you say?

Up and down for breakfast(as in got up and walked down the stairs),  there was a trio who were from the Netherlands, one of them having immigrated to PEI very friendly.  My little buddy (the grandson...did  I mention he was 4) eventually came for his breakfast so we had a nice little chat with him,  buy the time we left he was trying to talk his granny into spending the day at Hopewell Rocks and hanging out with us.  The rocks is where we spent a few hours of today, in low tide the place looks so different and you can tell how really high the tide does get.  Climbing down about 6 flights of stairs we reached the beech along with several hundred other people.  I have no idea how far I walked but it was great,  looking at the cliffs, the rocks, the ocean, trying not to get stuck in the red mud, great work out.

Hopewell Rocks  High and Low tide

I headed back before the other two,  stopping for my daily fix of ice cream (today's flavour was grizzly tracks, white choc swirl with choc cover caramel chunks...mmmm) then the 15 minute walk back to the gift shop where they had tons of great stuff much of which I bought or so it seemed.  Tons of lobster humor stuff...love it.  I then settled in on the deck with NB fries.  I have noticed on this trip there are lots of people with dogs and today was no exception  one of each color of lab, husky, bull dog, collie, and grey hound....I have noticed a fair amount of grey hounds since arriving here, which I mentioned to the mom of this greyhound,  she told me there has been 800 grey hounds rescued in the area....retired racers.  I was talking dogs to one guy when E and W2 got back, so after a quick snack and trip to the shopping area for them and a quick trip to the info center we were off.  About an hr later we arrived at the Confederation Bridge and I must say I have never had so much fun crossing a bridge before.  Poor W2 is afraid of heights and this was rather terrifying for her, much to the amusement of myself and E who was taping the whole trip.  Again I was laughing so hard I was crying, today it might have been more due to fatigue than fear.  I can also now get an idea why dad use to love scaring the crap out of me doing such things when I was little.   We finally got across the bridge and stopped at the visitors center where Emily was so nice and helped us book our remaining 3 nights even thought it was closing time.....3 stars to here for being so helpful. About half hour later we arrived in Summerside and booked into the Loyalist hotel, a short stroll across the street for supper, tonight W2 and I shared a fish taco and a burger, with a couple Keith's.... now a relaxing couple hrs and I'm ready for bed.  I think we did more walking today than any other day since leaving Halifax and poor E is looking a bit like a lobster....did  I mention its been around 30 since we got here.

todays sign