Holiday6.

I know, it’s getting monotonous these reports of fine weather, alls not lost as the forecast has hints of a change.

Yesterday was the last of the three get togethers of Fran’s re union. A brunch [of sorts] at “The Rooms”, a tour [little familiarization] then your on your own.
The 10 minute walk up the hill in 24 degrees seemed like a half hour walk, and that six way crossing! good thing it was a Sunday. I have noticed that most drivers will stop to let pedestrians cross the road, alas many do not use their car turn indicator lights, At a six way crossing this can lead to confusion to say the least.

The building interior is quite nice, lot of open space, glass and marble. The exhibits did not excite us, but then we are not big museum buffs.
There is still a lot of material not yet moved to the new building, so maybe then.
IMO the first priority should be to unearth the ‘fort’ under all that ‘green space’ at the side of the building and incorporate that into the exhibit. But then that may be asking too much.
The views are to die for, and on such a clear day, wow!

All in all a pleasant few of hours. The girls had their final hugs, laugh, pictures taken and promises of keeping in touch more often, and they will.
After 40 years 23 girls out of a class of 27or28 at this weekend is not bad, other classes should be so lucky.


These two photos taken at the BBQ Saturday, the first one was taken by Bruce Shelswell.



Up date:

Last evening we located/touched base with a couple from NY. Earlier in the month they had been attempting to get up to Nain by boat from Cartwright. Ice prevented that so they headed back to the island and spent the rest of the time touring, camping and working their way to St. John’s.
We had a pleasant meal with them at a restaurant overlooking the harbor.

They are still heading for Labrador, will end up in Nain for a week in August, neither ice nor sleet nor fog is going to prevent them. Perhaps engine trouble with their VW vanagon may, but not the other stuff.
Seems the van has been giving some trouble, the couple are impressed with local help in outports in keeping them on the road, even had one guy locate a distributor cape in a day one time.
They were not impressed with the weather in their travels, seems it was not as good as here on the Avalon, they are still enjoying the trip though.
They are off to a mechanic this morning to try get some other little kinks sorted out, no shortage of assistance from locals as to the ‘best place’ for these things.

Our last full day will be a relaxing one for a bit, then off to do a bit of business this arvo.