Where in the World are the Schlafmanns?: Canada

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Sunday, June 23, 2013

Flower Pots @ Hopewell Rocks

It's funny how I can read about a place and have a picture in my mind of what it is like and then arrive and see that while the description was accurate, my imagination was not. Bay of Fundy was sort of like this. I don't think I realized just how BIG it was until we were actually travelling there. I also thought that most of the bay looked like this place -- Hopewell Rocks. This seems to be where most of the pictures of the bay are taken due to the cool rock formations, but I found out that it is just one small section of an enormous area. The other thing is that I never imagined was that when the water came in, it would be so brown.

We had a great day of exploring -- it is very strange to walk on what will soon be the ocean's floor, knowing that when the water comes in, it will be far above the top of our heads.

These are the flower pots and I really never gained a clear understanding of why they were named such, but there are pretty cool.

Some before and after shots --

A kayaker explores the area --

Saturday, June 22, 2013

THE Bay of Fundy

Even though we stayed dry in our tent camping through a very rainy night at Acadia, all our camping gear was soaked and wouldn't be usable again until dried out. This sort of threw a wrench in our plans since we'd intended to camp during our time in Canada with a hotel night here and there. So, we decided tojust drive up to New Brunswick with the intent of just staying 2 - 3 nights in a hotel and essentially spending our week+ trip budget in 2-3 days instead, skipping Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia for this time.

With the highest tides in the world, Bay of Fundy has been on my list for a long time and it was really really cool to see it in person.

We found an adorable "chalet" to stay in just minutes outside of Fundy National Park and had a great time exploring the park ...

The quintessential Fundy picture -- boats on dry land one minute and floating in feet of water the next

SO many beautiful waterfalls!!!

AMAZING sticky buns at Kelly's Bakeshop!

Other pretty spots

Our little chalet :)

View from our porch with the bay in the distance

Jason cooked a lobster for the first time -- he said it was delicious

Treated to an unbelievable sunrise on our last morning

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Vacation's over ...

We arrived back in Shanghai 10 days ago. Our students arrived at the dorm on Tuesday and school started on Wednesday. It was a busy week last week and I haven't been ready yet to let go of our time in the US (although I'd happily "let go" of the 5 lbs I gained on vacation!). I've been going through the pictures I took while we were home and reminiscing about being with family and friends. I still can't get over how restoring it was to our spirits to be in wide, open, beautiful spaces...