ENGLAND

I haven't posted since I've been back in Canada from my trip!  Apologies for anyone who actually still follows my blog (Meghan!?)...  Here are a few pictures from the trip that I'm sure a number of you have already seen.  It was the best trip of my life!

Cheers!

dots & loops

Second favourite place we visited on our trip had to be Lunenburg, Nove Scotia (from about the early 1700's).  I will dedicate another post specifically on the place.

Dots & Loops was a shop that I had about 1-2 minutes (literally) to look around in as we were running late for wedding decorating back in Chester, NS.  I wish I had found it earlier; it had such neat things!  I wouldn't have minded a souvie from there.

souvies

I was fully prepared to end up coming back with zero souvenirs from my trip simply because I was on a strict budget and my pictures would be enough of a memory keepsake.  However, in Peggy's Cove, two lovely ladies (Irene & Grace) had set up a stand with some of their home knittings and when I saw these wool socks, I didn't think twice about taking this little piece of Peggy's Cove back with me to shield my feet from the horrid Winnipeg winters.

As the weather gets cooler here, my body will only thank me.

bay of fundy

If any of you have not had the opportunity to go to the Bay of Fundy, you must!  It has some of the greatest  fluctuations of high to low tides in the world.  I was told that in 6 hours, it will rise/fall 15 meters.  It seems difficult to put that perception into a picture in your head, but I was able to see if for myself and was blown away by the craziness (for lack of a better word) of it.  We saw the "craziness" from Hopewell Rocks, NB which has those highly famous flower-pot rocks (where the tides have eroded the base of the rocks away over the course of the years).

Yes, I took these pictures (below) and they are actually the two same locations documented at both low tide and high tide.  The park wasn't even open when we arrived at 9am and we hung around until about 3pm to see the final stages of the shift.

Also, to blow your mind a little, I will include for you a real time video I took of how fast the water is actually rising.  It'll make you careful of how long you linger in one area for too long...