Wrapping Up Our PEI Adventure

We had 3 great full days on Prince Edward Island. It was fun to see where my grandfather Bremner came from even though I never knew him. Friday, Eileen and I continued on the family history portion of our trip while everyone else toured a lighthouse and enjoyed the beaches once again. We first went to the home of Dave Hunter who runs the "Island Register.com" where we have learned much about our family. While we were in Iceland, Eileen bought a book from Dave and asked him to hold it as we were going to visit PEI. We have been planning this trip for years so we included a stop to see Dave and pick up the book. He also showed us his telephone museum which is quite amazing with the earliest telephones to the most modern including a complete telephone booth, old switchboards, switching equipment and even teletype machines. After leaving his home we headed to the various areas of the island where many of our ancestors lived - looking for whoever we could find in cemeteries along the way.

We all came back together at the motel to go for our final dinner in PEI. We looked on the internet for a place to go and saw Canada's oldest family operated Inn and PEI's oldest business - the Shaw Hotel. Shaw is a family name and the menu looked fantastic. It was only about 20 minutes from us so we decided to give it a try. It looks just like the picture but the menu had been changed and I was really disappointed with the offerings. I had to have scallops again as there was no other seafood offerings. They were delicious though. Kristi was brave and had the scallops and loved them. Zeke had shrimp linguine which he really enjoyed. The rest had good food just no seafood or fish. The view from the dining room was very beautiful just doesn't show in my picture.

Saturday morning we headed back to New Hampshire taking a different route than the one up which meant getting off the freeways. We went south along the New Brunswick coast which was beautiful and then as we crossed the border into Maine we headed west through Maine and New Hampshire into Vermont where we headed south to Kristi's. The drive was a very beautiful scenic drive on two lane roads through many towns. Kristi was very frustrated with drivers who did not even drive the speed limit but we got home just about as quickly as the less interesting freeway route so she enjoyed the drive too. The architecture and the rural New England atmosphere was very fun to see. Many of the beautiful old homes have been turned into Bed and Breakfast or Inns. Families must have been very big when those houses were built as they are very large. Many of them look the size of the modern mansions being built today.

Today we enjoyed Church with Kristi's family and tomorrow it is off to Palmyra, Kirtland and home - yea home!