Our new RV friends came over and visited a few minutes this morning before they took off and before we left for Halifax. We gave them our "business card" and they plan to contact us when they get back to England.
We headed into the city today and walked around the boardwalk area near the harbor. It was sunny and a beautiful day for a change. We also went to the cemetery that has a large number of the Titanic victims buried there. It was a pretty cool thing to see, but also pretty sad. The grave of the unknown child was pitiful. It had a lot of "trinkets" in front of it....baby toys, a straw hat, bracelet, money, etc. A few of the other graves did as well, but there was a lot of stuff at the unknown child one. It was actually a very interesting place to see.
I learned a few things today. I learned that the Canadian coin for a dollar is called a loonie because it has a picture of a loon on it. The two dollar coin is known, then, as a toonie! So when you see the dollar store, it is called Loonie and Toonie's dollar store.
We were discussing various types of motor homes and the various equipment that can come on them with our new RV friends from England. Glenn mentioned that some of them even come with dishwashers and garbage disposals. Kate had a confused look on her face and Andy said oh, you mean the "muncher".
When we were in Halifax this morning, a Middle Eastern family was marveling over Sparkle, who looked rather adorable in her sweater. The father asked if I minded if he took a "snap" of her.
My vocabulary increased considerably on this trip.
Tomorrow...Thanksgiving Day here...we are heading out. We didn't get invited to anyone's RV or house for turkey, so no reason to hang around and be sad about it. We'll move on into New Brunswick and into Maine, down the coast and toward home. We'll just eat our pumpkin pie all by ourselves. I am thinking of writing a letter to the president and asking if the US would be interested in changing our Thanksgiving to the same time as Canada's. That way it wouldn't be so close to Christmas and things would be a little more spread out. The weather would be a little nicer too. Don't you think that it would work out a lot better that way? Well, Happy Thanksgiving everyone!