Day 7 - PEI in the Rain!

We woke up to a cold and rainy day in PEI.  The plan was to drive to see the Fisheries Museum, which was an hour away.  Unfortunately when we arrived, it was closed - only open on weekdays in June.  Since we were there, we took a little walk on the beach.  There are supposedly "singing sands" there, due to the make up of the sand.  But, it doesn't work if the sand is wet, which it most certainly was.  We weren't the only ones who made that mistake.  There were several other cars there, and I chatted for a bit with a couple from Texas.  

David walking on the beach

The view of the beach from the museum

Do I look cold?

Some pretty houses we saw along the way

We headed back toward Charlottetown, where our rental is, so I could change out of my wet socks!  Then we went to the Founder's Food Hall and Market, (kind of like a mall food court) where we looked around and got some suggestions from the Visitor's Center rep.  Next, across the street for a delicious lunch!

Something that is a specialty here is chocolate made from potatoes!!  One of the stores in the Food Hall had all kinds of potato chocolate, (I just love white chocolate).  They also had different flavors of potato fudge.  All delicious!

I saw the above sign in a liquor store we stopped in.  I asked the salesman about it (and indicated my political leanings, so he was comfortable talking with me).  He said that Canada pulled many American products off the shelves in anger with some of the talk about "making" Canada the 51st state.  But people were concerned that items were just sitting in storage, so they decided to make good use of the products and either donate them or donate the profits from the sale of these items to food banks.  This is really a nice country!

Next, we went across the street to a small neighborhood restaurant for a great lunch.  I had a lobster roll and David had seafood chowder and fried oysters.  Sorry, no pics, except for the restaurant below!

Next, we drove about a half hour southwest to the village of Victoria by the Sea, where a whole neighborhood has craft shops, mostly right in or next to their houses.  It was charming and the people were lovely!

One of the craft shop houses

I just liked the look of this boat.

We then headed north to New Glasgow, where there wasn't really anything to see.  We were going to continue heading north, but decided that we were too cold and tired of driving, so we went back to our rental.  

Later, we went to dinner at a small restaurant.  The waiter messed up my drink order, but it was fine.  We shared lobster spring rolls, then David had mussels and I had a seafood pasta.

And finally, I've been meaning to mention, that everywhere there are pride flags - in the bigger cities and even in the most back woods towns!  It's really uplifting!  Happy Pride month!