Autumn

Another week has gone by and it is starting to look like fall. 

Last Sunday evening we were at the mission home for supper. 

Monday we went off to Pictou for one more time and did some research in the Pictou Archives.  We took a couple along with us so she could visit her mother.  We got back just in time to go to family home evening.

On Tuesday we had a couple over for supper and to view our China pictures.

By Wednesday I had a cold so I stayed home from the temple.  I hadn't slept well all night until 6:00 in the morning and then I slept well for a few hours.

Thursday, Friday and today we were at the Temple as usual.  This was our last Saturday at the temple so we had quite a few people to say good-bye to. This afternoon the rain started again.

We are no longer alone.  The daughter of the people who are moving into the house when we leave has been staying here this month.

Pictures from the back Deck

Foghorn

We have been having a lot of rain and fog for the past week.  However it is still quite warm.

When we first arrived here we bought a $25 printer which we thought would last while we were here.  We spent hundreds of dollars for the cartridges for it and then when we still had cartridges that were three quarters full, the darn printer gave up.  We now have a new printer that is much nicer (and takes different cartridges) but now we have to find space in our car to take it home.

We have been back from Cape Breton for two weeks now and have had mostly average weeks.  We attended a family home evening group both Mondays.  Bob went to District meeting Tuesday and we have been to the Temple four days each week.

Last Saturday there was a Woman's Conference at the Church.  I expected to miss it because it was while we were at the Temple.  However, people were very scarce at the Temple so they sent the ladies over to the conference for the last two hours.  There was a class knitting squares for Blankets for Canada right at the door when I walked in, so I sat down and knit for the whole time.

This past Thursday we attended a zone conference (our last Zone Conference) with all the missionaries in Nova Scotia.  One of the members of the first quorum of the Seventy was here for it.  He also came to the Temple for Friday and Saturday and did a Temple review.

Friday we did a last visit to Halifax and had lunch with my third cousin once removed, Betty Murray.  We had a great visit.  She reminds we a lot of some of my Murray aunts.

Bob's Pictures of Our Cape Breton Visit

From the Alexander Graham Bell Museum

Baddeck

Cabot Trail

Gaelic College

Fortress of Louisbourg

Back to Dartmouth

This morning we went to the P.E.I. Archives and did some research on my Davies relatives.

By noon we were back on the road towards Dartmouth.

 Lineup at Wood Island Ferry

From the Ferry

First Glimpse of Pictou

We drove off the ferry at Caribou and got a glimpse of sun and blue sky for the first time since Tuesday.  We drove straight back to Dartmouth.

Cape Breton to Charlottetown

Last night it poured rain and the winds were up to 100 k per hour.  We decided to leave Cape Breton and go to Charlottetown.  We left the wind behind and went through rain and fog and arrived in Charlottetown about 5 p.m.

We had hamburgers at Harveys even though we had eaten on the ferry a few hours before.

We are staying at th Holiday Inn Express. 

Was surprised to see the Stars and Stripes waving in front of our hotel.

Cape Breton - Day 3

This morning we checked out of Auberge Gisele.

Shortly out of Baddeck we stopped at the Gaelic College of Celtic Arts and Crafts and walked through the museum of the clans. 

 There was to be a Kilt making demonstration shortly and I would have loved to watch it, but rain was being forecast for the afternoon and a rain warning for the late afternoon and we wanted to tour Fortress of Louisbourg today, so we left without seeing the demonstration.

We drove to Louisbourg and the rain began before we got there.  The Louisbourg area was originally settled by cod fishers from France.  Most of them were only there for the summer.  The fortress was build to protect France's  interest in the fishing industry.

 The Gate to Fortress of Louisbourg on the other side of the Moat

 I Love the Stone Wall

 The Gate to the Ocean

 Stone Building

Garrison Chapel

 Drowned Rat

Fortress Gate from Inside

Cape Breton - day 2

Today we drove the Cabot Trail going up the east side and back down the west side.

We barely got started along the trail when we ran into construction.  We waited about ten minutes before a pilot truck came to guide us through.

The next obstacle came shortly after.

From there the Honda bounced along the rough road and we saw trees, trees, trees, craft shops (pottery, leather, glass, quilts, art, jewellery and every sort of gift), cemeteries and occasionaly a glimpse of the ocean.  The road did improve after North Shore and was good all the rest of the way.

Cape Smokey Ahead

Coming down the west side we saw much more of the ocean.

Aspey Fault

The trees were mostly green but every once in a while there was a bit of colour warning that autumn is on the way.

The following pictures were taken in Baddeck after our drive.