Trip to the Bay of Fundy

Nova Scotia has water everywhere.  Spring has finally arrived and things are really greening up.  The really good news is that our pool in the apartment complex is opening this weekend.  The weather isn't what we would call "hot" yet but it it is approaching the 70's.  The last few weekends have been warm and sunny so we have tried to get out and see some different places in Nova Scotia before we need to leave.  The only real downer is that I am still wearing a boot on a broken leg that keeps me from being able to walk very far or very fast.  A couple of weeks ago we decided to go back to the Annapolis Valley.  It was one of the places we went last summer after we first got to the Mission.  Our first stop was Bridgewater to see Elder Olson and Elder Barrett to take them to lunch.  Elder Olsen was an AP for awhile so we saw him in the office a lot.  It was fun to see those Elders again.

Elder Barrett and Elder Olsen

                                                                                                           

After Bridgewater we drove on the backroads to Annapolis Royal.  Every since last summer I have wanted to go back to see the Heritage Gardens there.  It was almost closing time when we got there but they said that they would stick around a bit and let us go through.  The best part was that they had a scooter that I could use to drive around on the trails in the gardens so I wouldn't have to walk around on my crutches.  The spring flowers were beautiful.  Some of the gardens weren't in bloom yet-like the roses-but the tulips and the magnolias and the cherry blossoms were were very pretty.

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This was a new building in the Gardens.  It is a replica of an Acadian home that would have been in the kind of home the first French settlers built.  They called themselves Acadians.  Eventually the English came and tried to destroy the first settlers and take over the land.  The Acadians were forced to leave and hide from the English or be banished to the places where they were told by the English to live just like the American Indians that were forced to reservations.

The tulips are gorgeous.  They reminded me of the tulip gardens in Oregon and Washington.

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After we left the gardens and Annapolis Royal we drove to another fishing village on the Bay of Fundy called Digby.  Cool Victorian architecture, monuments and parks, lighthouses, and the ferry that goes from Digby to Saint John, New Brunswick.

Main Street of Digby

Every seaport we have visited in the Maritimes has monuments to those who have been lost at sea.

Or in the first World War.

The beautiful green country-side on the way back to Dartmouth.

Elder Bluth from Mesa, Arizona and Elder Groneman from Riverton, Utah came for Sunday Dinner.