Booked for PEI

I've mentione before, i think, Mom and I are going to go away for a few days to Prince Edward Island, a little province off the east coast of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. It's mostly rural, lots of rolling hills and because there's a lot of clay in the soil, the earth is quite red/ terra cotta. Famous for golfing, lobster, potatoes and of course, Anne of Green Gables, PEI is a really pretty place. Tourism is an important industry so there are lots of B&B's, cottages and inns. PEI is also famous in Canadian History. In the capital city, Charlottetown, the Dominion of Canada was ratified in 1867. Oddly enough, PEI did not actually join Canada then, not until 6 years later after entertaining a bid from the US to join them! Something else i didn't know, it's original name was St. John's Island but it was changed because there was a St. John's in the nearby province of Newfoundland and Saint John over in New Brunswick.

So anyway, after that little history lesson, back to the purpose of the post. I've booked a Bed and Breakfast Inn, called the Beach House Inn which is not far from Cavendish. they have some lovely rooms and two or three cottages, one of which i have booked. I've discovered that a great many of these lovely inns mostly only have queen and king bedded rooms. If they do have twin rooms they are up in the top floors of the houses which is not great for Mom to have to climb too many stairs. I'm not over fond of it myself. Anyway one of the cottages in this place has two double beds and a sitting area along with en suite. Here's the photo from their website. Off season rates ended up $20 cheaper for off season rates so that's good. Two nights there in mid October and a night at my cousin's place on the other end of the province. Nice thing though, PEI is so small that nothing is very far away.

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The oven will be cleaned tomorrow. that's a promise, seeing as i've already sprayed it down to sit overnight. When the oven smokes and the smoke alarm goes off and you haven't even used the broiler, it's time to clean it lol!

Had coffee with my friend T today. We were discussing baby names and how the celebs are all naming their babies strange names. T. thought that the poor kids would suffer in school. Au contraire! all the celeb kids will probably go to the same school anyway so it'll be the kid named David or Mary that gets their arse kicked in the schoolyard!

Got a baby fix today, cuddling the 2 month old son of teaone and hello_city. He found a nice comfy spot (left boob and shoulder) and had a nice long snooze. Photos are in my sister's camera so will point to them when available. I can go years without holding a wee one and in the last month i've got to cuddle three!

You will be pleased to know that the new pillow was very nice indeed. Time will tell but so far, so good.

that is all.