Epilogue

It has been a fantastic vacation spending time with family. Here are a few snippets that did not get put through into the blog.  

Ever since we decided to go on this family vacation, we have been talking about playing board games, particularly Risk. We played Risk during our first cottage experience long time ago and thoroughly enjoyed the challenges and possibilities. However, we still have not been able to recreate that magic moment. Once again this time, because PEI and the farmhouse are so new to us, we spent most of the time exploring rather than staying to play games. If we were to come again, we will certainly have a different mind set and Risk will definitely be on the menu. There are tons of games at the farmhouse and we also brought a few favourites but the only one we really played was Wizard. We played Chutes and Ladders and a pretend Monopoly game with Zoe; too young to deal with the financial aspect of the game.  

There are also a lot of tapes and DVDs at the farmhouse, we managed to sneak in a couple of movies but not much time for TV.

It is interesting but seems a bit unfair that the beaches in the middle part of PEI are all part of the National Parks system. I truly understand the need to have income to maintain the beaches but there should be some stretches that people can enjoy without paying.  As it is, other beaches in the provincial parks are free, but not in the middle of the island.

You really feel it when you are deprived of something that you take for granted, like a full hot shower after Spike Ball or the beach. Thanks to everyone to be conscious of the constraint and hopefully we have not depleted too much of the water .

I already mentioned that we had a lot of seafood. Interestingly enough, we did not have too much meat. No beef or pork. We did have chicken at Swiss Chalet and for pasta. We did not use the barbecue or the oven to cook meat. Why waste a meal on meat when you can have seafood, right?

We visited 4 beaches with our 5 days on the island, not bad. Well, we did not visit Cavendish Beach other than Dustin and Sarah but we all visited North Rustico, Greenwich and Brackly Beaches. 

Everyone says PEI is small. It is really small compared to Ontario or Quebec but we had to drive an hour to get to Greenwich which is still in the middle of PEI. We have not figured out how long it would take to circumnavigate the island but it would be a long drive.

We fit in quite a few things but far from everything that we wanted to do. One of the highlights this time is the Canada Day Firework. On the list if we were to come again: Anne of Green Gables, Confederation Trails, Old Triangle Irish Alehouse, perhaps one or both ends of the island.

Until next time, PEI.