Hello all, my first blog post. I'm not here all that often and only pop in whenever the mood strikes me. For those who don't know I'm engaged to administrator Nicholas.

Anyways the mood has struck so now I am copying and pasting a post from my LiveJournal blog detailing my recent trip to the Mainland, to compliment Nick's blog and to get my blog here started. So without further adieu...

Well I know its been a while since I've posted and so much has happened since then. Nick and I have traveled to the mainland and while there we went to Amherst, Joggins, Parrsboro, Peggys Cove, and the Cape Breton Highlands.

We left early the morning of the 30th (I believe) and traveled to Amherst where we stayed for the night at a Comfort Inn. We explored the town and tried to find Joggins (but failed - I blame the GPS) and ate at Jungle Jim's..wonderful food bad waitress. The next day we ignored the GPS and left for Joggins and found it easily. We stayed for several hours exploring the many fossil exhibits and exploring the beach. I got a ton of wonderful photos that I need to hunker down and edit and post. After we finished exploring Joggins we set a course for Parrsboro where we visited the local fossil museum. I did not enjoy Parrsboro but I did love the scenery. We were going to travel down to Yarmouth afterwards and travel along scenic trails home but Nick and I decided we'd rather not and instead drove towards Peggy's Cove before making the night drive home. We made it to Peggy's cove right before sunset and it was gorgeous. As we were driving out of the parking lot the sun was setting..it was a beautiful scene. Then we started our night drive home and the whole way Nick was freaking out about Moose, but we decided we'd rather not stop. Once across the causeway we both kept an eye out for Moose but never saw a single one, however we did see other things. He say two deer and we both saw a coyote, a dead racoon (roadkill giving Nick the hairy eyeball) and a shooting star. The shooting star was perfect, we saw it at just the right time and we were both looking at the right spot right in front of us right before the cloud cover. It was amazing! And we haven't found evidence that anyone else saw it either or that there was a meteor shower. Once in a life time.

And yesterday after two days of trying but failing we traveled the Cabot Trail twice, starting at Ingonish to Cheticamp and back. The reason for the double trip? We don't like the French. Actually its because on the way there we were looking for the exit to Meat Cove but missed it and didn't have a map so we were at Cheticamp before we realized. By then there were stops I wanted to make so after much arguing we turned around on the trail and headed for Ingonish again. We did two short trails, took photos and I saw a partial moose. It was beautiful and I'm glad we went..well worth it.

Now we're hanging out around the house mainly waiting out my final days here. I head home August 14, so it won't be long.

As much as I don't want to go there are things home I miss as well so this parting will be painful and bittersweet just like always. But alas life goes on and we are well adjusted to this by now, even so the tears will come.