I M Anne - July 11

In the morning, we packed up and hit the road again.  Just down the road there is a little attraction called the Bottle House.  We decided to stop there and check it out.   With a trailer being pulled though, we realized we couldn’t pull into their little parking lot so we just pulled over to the side of the road!  You have to love it when you can pull over and just stop with no one getting upset.  It’s a laid back life out here!

The Bottle Houses were so neat.  It is being run by the daughter of the man who many all these houses made with reclaimed bottles.  He made a church, a little house, and a bar area!  The bottles looked like stained glass.  It was a cute little stop for sure!

We went from here to another little community where we had heard they had great lobster dinners.  Despite the fact that Dad doesn’t eat meat he was OK with us stopping here and having a unique PEI dinner.  We had the lobster dinner and some local PEI fare – a meat pie, corn and chicken soup, and pork served with molasses.  It was good but I think the favourite was the lobster for sure!  Sadly, the kids love the expensive foods.

After lunch, it was time to head to Avonlea.  The community has really been built up around the storybook heroine.  They have restored the home of the author – LM Montgomery – and created a little village to bring the stories to life.   I was so excited.  This part of the trip is for me!  Navras and Shanti have read the book but they didn’t fall in love with it like I did.  As soon as we got in the kids spotted a Cows Creamery!  After hearing for weeks about how great the ice cream was here where do you think they wanted to go first?  Yup – time for ice cream but double yup – it was worth it!

And, when we came outside – who did I see but two girls walking across the street.  Anne and Diana!!!!!  I had to have my photo taken with the girls.  They asked me about my unfortunate incident and compared it to when Anne jumped off the roof of the barn and twisted her ankle.  The actors here are great – keeping in character all the time.  Rachel Lynde told me I should be careful and should have taken my horse instead!  We listened to local music, watched oyster shucking, won a potato sack race, took part in the parade, and had some great photo ops!   It still makes me smile to think about how much fun it was.  A definite must for any Anne of Green Gables fan!