Blogs from Prince Edward Island, Canada, North America - page 6

This year marks Thrivent's 10th year in partnership with Habitat. Amazing things happen when thirteen people with heart commit a week of their lives to help a family become home owners. The thirteen of us from Thrivent partnering with the local Habitat Affiliate, Don (the best construction manager who not only directs us but is also teaching us valuable construction skills), Travis (a local student who is studying to become a machinist), Pascal (an exchange student from Quebec here to sharpen his English speaking skills), and technical contractors doing electrical and plumbing have made some amazing progress this week. Today we finished the framing for front and back decks, finished the inside to be ready for sheet rock, and completed the roof prep to be ready for shingles. Most of us have not had much construction ... read more

After a full day of work on the home site, the Habitat affiliate treated us to a fantastic lobster dinner . For many of us, it was our first experience working our way through a whole lobster. Overwhelming number of "thumbs up" and left us wanting more. Mike Paulson won the award for the most enthusiastic lobster eater and earned the coveted nickname of "Lobster Man".... read more

Souris, I-P-E, 23 juillet Ça y est, j'y suis presque! Je m'embarquerai dans quelques heures pour les îles-de-la-Madeleine et je suis fébrile de retrouver ce petit coin de paradis... J'ai traversé hier l'Île-du-Prince-Édouard et malgré le temps pluvieux, je retrouvai certains sites avec bonheur, me remémorant mes vacances passées ici en 2003. La campagne verte et ondulée, la terre rouge, les champs de pomme de terre (les meilleures au monde à mon humble avis), les plages magnifique, les mignonnes petites églises à tout les carrefours et la mer jamais bien loin font de cette province une destination de choix. La région de Cavendish est d'ailleurs passablement envahie et le tourisme de masse a malheureusement contaminé les lieux. Je retrouvai aussi avec le sourire aux lèvres la paisible Charlottetown et son cachet particulier, musardant dans les petites ... read more

Today’s destination was Charlottetown, the capitol of Prince Edward Island. The bridge here is the Confederation Bridge and we’ve seen signs for the Birthplace of Confederation, but really had no idea what that meant. To remedy that situation, we started at Founders’ Hall. It is a multimedia history lesson framed as a time machine. I usually don’t do the audio tour things, but this was well designed. Marks on the floor showed where to stand, and it all flowed easily. While there, we learned that twenty-three representatives from Canada East, Canada West, PEI, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia met in Charlottetown in 1864 and ultimately decided to unite as one country. They, as well as representatives from Newfoundland, met again in Quebec a month later to draft a constitution. Canada as a country was officially created ... read more

Know we are back but updating blog any ways. Had a real problem with it crashing but i think it was my I-Pad, so giving it a go here. We left Charlottetown, and drove to the ferry at the tip of Wood island. When we got there we found out one of the 2 ferries was not working and it happened to be the bigger of the two. We had stopped to tour the lighthouse that was there. It was a really great experience, they are not as tall as I thought they would be. After touring and watching the ferry come in we decided to see if we would be able to get on the four o'clock ferry, which was four hour wait. Told chances were slim but could reserve the eight o'clock one, we ... read more