Day 1 saw Stephane, Vic, and me, all going to Moncton in the 2015 Kia Sedona which we used for Quebec City 2015 and staying for lunch En Route to Bouctouche so Stephane could see his family.
Enjoying the beach.
Later Erin, Christopher, and Oliver, all met Mom and me at Costco, where the Camerons used to take me to browse, watch the TVs play a certain movie, and eat Twist ice cream before I moved into L’Arche.
They didn’t have much of a DVD or CD selection, but we got groceries and Mom and I looked at TVs as ours upstairs was fading and I liked the LG LED TVs and the Samsung TVs like the one in McKim House, and Erin said she didn’t like the Hi Def TVs because it makes movies look like a BBC show or soap opera.
We also looked at books and I saw an Eyewitness France book and an Eyewitness Australia book.
We went home.
Tonight after supper I watched my DVD of Pitch Perfect, enjoying the music again.
Day 2 was the day I had been waiting for after 2 Frozen-like blizzard-filled winters and no Upper Cape or Camille’s.
We love walking the beach when the tide is out.
We packed up the car...and headed out to Upper Cape, leaving our dogs behind.
Dad had left early to take his John Deere ride-on mower to mow out a path to the beach and Glen, who was already there with Stephanie and Mo, was mowing.
Mom and I went in Erin’s red Toyota Rav-4 with Oliver in the car seat, and I enjoyed his company and his excitement and his chattering.
We got there and the sight of the cottage and our beach excited me.
I had brought along, as with every year, my copy of Nop’s Trials, as a tradition which started in 2006 before I lost Molly when I was borrowing Jen’s copy of this particular book, and I read this most of the time while I was here.
I changed into my bathing suit which went very well with my T-shirt!
After a lunch of snacks, such as nachos with salsa, crackers and cheese, lots of berries, and lots of Perrier, we headed to the beach for a long-awaited swim in the water.
I went in and so did Erin and Stephanie, and I enjoyed my swim so much after 2 years I was doing Jean Vanier poses from his pictures on his books.
After this I went back and relaxed, reading the book while my feet and bathing suit dried.
Relaxing in the cottage.
As a note, this was also my first Upper Cape visit since I had my BlackBerry Q5. Therefore I used this to take some pictures.
After hours of relaxation, visits to the water, strolls on the beach, reading Nop’s Trials, and enjoying the cottage we drove to Camille’s and I went with Stephanie and Glen in their new Mini.
Once we got to Camille’s we waited for the rest of the group.
Enjoying Camille's with the family.
Then we ordered our traditional summer meals, which in my case was Fish and Chips, and Mom had a Lobster meal, and Erin had Chicken Fingers and Fries, and some had Fried Clams and Fries or just the Clams.
I brought along a Perrier can as all they served as drinks was Coke and Pepsi pops and water.
We went home and I went in Dad’s Porsche Macan in which I had gone to Camp Wildwood a couple months ago.
When we got home I was so tired. I was like a bicycle because I was “2 Tired” and would have fallen over. Therefore I went to bed.
At Camille's!
Day 3 was return-home day.
I had breakfast again with Erin, Christopher, and Oliver there to have fun with.
I watched a PVR recording of an episode of Amazing Race Canada set in Halifax and I came up with the idea of L’Arche Saint John being a place where teams would come to do something to collect a clue and I thought in this place I would play a song and the contestants would guess the title of the song and if they guessed it correctly I would hand them their next Amazing Race clue.
After lunch we went to Chapters to browse at books and I looked at a few travel books and then looked with Erin in the children’s section and I tried looking for, and looking up, Mercer Mayer’s Just For You, my favorite childhood book which when I used to read it had a tape with a song. But I saw a whole shelf of Robert Munsch stories in big style and little style, like Mortimer, the Paper Bag Princess, Murmel, Murmel, Murmel, Thomas’ Snowsuit, I Have To Go, Pigs, and Mud Puddle, and other Munsch favorites I used to read and listen to as a child.
Then we went to Shoppers to get a Globe and the Mail, excuse the pun, and I browsed at the movies and I liked one which was a 4-movie collection in which one was Bingo, about a circus Border Collie who saves the life of a boy whose father is a pro football player and the dog and the boy become friends for life, and I wanted this.
Oliver at the beach.
We went home and I watched another PVR recording of an episode of Amazing Race Canada, here set in Sudbury, Ontario.
After saying goodbye to Erin, Christopher, and Oliver and kissing Oliver, Mom and I went to the bus station and she bought me a ticket to Saint John and I brought my 12-string guitar, so we checked a suitcase and my guitar.
We watched the train leave while we awaited the boarding of the bus, which happened within minutes, and later we left and I got home safely.