Departure Day

Hi


Today Robert Kathleen and I woke up early and started playing the Wii. We had a very good breakfast and all of us were driven over to Lucille house. That is where I am now. We will leave to the Airport around 10am. We will fly to Toronto stop for a bit then on to Vancouver where we will get on the plane bound for Auckland. We have had a fantastic trip, thanks to everybody who were hospitable to us.


Thank you

Luke


P.S. Happy Birthday Joanne from all of us.

Thursday

Hello


Yesterday we didn't do much. I caught up on my blog most of the day. We went to Rose Anne and Josh's house and played their Wii. Mum decided that since their was an extra ticket to the Bruce Guthro, Chris would go. We went to see Kathleen's soccer game where her team tied 4-4. Then we came home and went to bed.

Luke

Lower Sackville + Ray and Lori's cottage

Hello again,

Yesterday (Wednesday) we drove down from Antigonish after lots of goodbyes and thank-yous to Grandma to Lower Sackville with Elaine. We had lunch and headed down to Lake Mush-a- Mush where Ray and Lori own a lakeside cottage. We swam in the fresh water lake. They had a small inflatable raft where we all were playing on. We all really enjoyed the swim and the kyaks. For dinner most of the adults had lobster. After dinner we went in for a second swim and played around. We all played lots of pool, air hockey and ping pong.

We drove back after a Cape Breton sing song and fell into bed at midnight.

Today is our last day.

Luke

Fortress of Louisbourg

Hi

On Tuesday we left Vern's house in Sydney and headed to Louisbourg to see the Fortress of Louisbourg - a french fortress of 1744 used to defend Nova Scotia or Ile Royale from the British. It is a re-built working model of the original fortress complete with people dressed and working as if it were 1744. It consists of about 63 buildings in the town and the soldiers quarters has about 20 rooms. The town has a bakery, cafe, many restaurants, inns, taverns and shops. It was fantastic and we all really enjoyed it.

After that we went into the town of Louisbourg where we had lunch and looked in one souvenir store.

Tuesday was really fun.

Luke

The Cabot Trail + a 65 inch Plazma TV!!!!!

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On Monday Mum decided we would drive the Cabot trail to her cousins place, and go to the Fortress of Louisbourg the next day.

The Cabot trail is in the top 3 roads of the world to travel. It is a very twisty and turny road ( like NZ) and it is about 2 hours long. We made it and arrived in the safety of Vern and Pat. We were soooo amazed to see their 65 INCH TV!!!!!!!!

Chris and I played pool and we had a delicious meal of Lasagna.

We fell asleep around 12am.

Luke

Cheteicamp + Broad Cove concert

Hello again

On Sunday we drove to Baddeck were we touched base and had lunch at the yellow chello Cafe.

That was great. We decided we would meet in broad cove where a concert was being held. The heat was soooo intense (it felt like 35 degrees!). I got a blanket and hung it between seats and sat in the shade! Then we all made our way to Cheteicampa small french town where Mums cousin lives. They own a huge chunk of land right on the coast! I went in for a swim but all the rock discouraged me to stay in!

We stayed the night there in 25 degrees!

Luke

Another Wedding

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On Saturday we drove over to another one of Mum's cousin - Refina's house for brunch. That was delicious but my mood changed big time when we found out about the All Blacks' 34-19 loss to Austrailia! :-(

We then went back to the hotel to get ready for another second cousin's wedding! Norma and Andrew. After the wedding we went to 4:15 mass along with lots of other people from the wedding. We drove back to Refina's place where all the children were dropped off while the adults went to the formal wedding dinner. All the children watched Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.

After that we went to the dance where Kathleen and I danced alot!

We fell asleep at around 2am.

Luke