Back in the States

Our last day in PEI was nice and relaxed. We had dinner at Victoria Row and of course we stopped at Cows for ice cream. After getting a sweatshirt, we took another stroll on the boardwalk. We stopped at Victoria Park and watched a local baseball game. The evening sunset was beautiful. On our way back, we chose to walk down by the ocean. We found some really cool shells and I stepped on a nasty, ooey-gooey jelly fish. Those things are all over. I know why they call them jelly fish, GROSS! Oh, yea, we also ran into some sister missionaries. That's was pretty fun to talk with them. One was from Sandy, Utah and the other was from California. Anyway, yesterday was a very long travel day. We got up at 6:40 PEI time and didn't arrive until 8:15 MST, which is 11:15 PEI time. We had two layovers. One in Michigan and the other in Minnesota. Fun stuff. Customs wasn't too bad. Chris got his pocket knife through in CA...that's a good sign, right? Ha.
Well, due to the termites downstairs, granny upstairs, and all of the rules and regulations at our family and friends apartments, Chris and I slept out in the Prowler. It was bloody hot, but better than the floor. I believe we are doing it again tonight. Oh, JOY!
And, as we all know, Chris is a "money guy." He is getting ready right now to go sign papers for his job. Way to go Chris!! I'm glad he get's things done. I'm running errands today and trying to consolidate all of our crap that has acquired in Granny's front living room. I think tonight we're sharing pictures with the Utah Fam. Thursday, we're on the road again to get MORE crap from Reno. Oh, the joys of joining two people's junk and moving it to a different state!! You gotta love life...

Saturday

We made breakfast, AGAIN. Oh yea!! Then we took a nap. Hehe...well, Chris claims that he never fell asleep, but I'm not sure I believe him. After we got up and at 'em, we went down to the "harbour" and did the most touristy thing ever: we took the harbor hippo. It's a land tour that ends in the water. Yea, the crazy huge car thing drives right into the water and then it turns into a water tour. It's amazing and Chris was like a little kid the whole time. He kept wanting pictures and his eyes were about to pop out of his head, I swear! Oh, and we saw jelly fish. They were every where. They're really cool looking...
We decided to hit up Potatoes PEI for freshly cut french fries. Then we hit up a few more shops...I just can't keep Chris out of them. We're working on it ;-)
Ah, and this is where the Spillers's excitement begins--We stopped in a local mart to get stamps and gum. On the way out, i noticed Chris searching through all of the bags in his hand. "What are you doing?" I hesitantly inquire. "Uh, the camera." That's basically all he had to say to send me into a whirlwind of panic. In case one lost camera wasn't enough, he was threatening to lose TWO...so, he ran up ahead to the last shop we were at. Long story short, his number of lost cameras is still at one. THANK GOODNESS!! He certainly knows how to get my heart racing.
Before the show tonight, we had dessert at Just Us Girls. He had Cherries Jubilee and I had a mango, passion fruit cheesecake. Quite delicious. The show we saw was Sheer Madness. It was hilarious. A comedy murder. I guess it's the longest running non-musical play in American theater.
Naturally, on the way back to the B&B, Chris talked me into getting Cow's, yet again. We love our Cows! To end the night, we watched the first season of The Office. A hilarious ending to a comical day!!

Living More Ordinary

Today we had a fun and relaxing day on the golf course....which is much more familiar to me! We started off the day with a great breakfast and a two hour nap, which we sorely needed after struggling to make the 8-9:30am breakfast allotment. On the golf course we enjoyed a fun-filled 9 holes which is the perfect amount of golf for a beginner like Andree (who shows incredible instincts for the sport I might add) and a has been like me. We both struggled in the beginning but turned it around as we got our mental games in line. Andree and I both hit the 8th green, a par three, from the tee and she proceeded to provide the best excitement of the day as her putt for birdie did a 180 around the hole! Unfortunately it did not go in but my birdie effort did. I would have much rather hers did than mine. Golf is a tricky one for my sweetheart and definitely a mind trip as I referred to it. She is improving vastly in her swing and her focus however. (she loves to think of anything but golf just as she is about to swing that little club : ). From the golf course we had a great dinner in downtown Charlottetown and then did some more shopping. It seems to be our fallback plan of choice! Lastly we ended the day with COWS ice cream, an amazing, and very popular, choice among tourists and locals alike.

Friday the 13

Although it's a superstitious day, we finally started off right!! We made it to breakfast on time today. That's a first for us. Chris and I did a little jig on the way down the stairs after we saw the clock that read 8:54am. It was a great start to a great day. Shelley made us pancakes today that we didn't get to eat yesterday :-( Half way through our meal, the power went out. "Just one of the ghosts," Shelley said. It is Friday the 13th, after all. Well, after breakfast, we promptly came back upstairs to take a nap. Yes, a real nap. We were out for 2 hours, solid. Finally Chris woke up and got me outta bed. We went golfing, naturally, cuz what else would we do after a nap on Friday the 13th? The course was beautiful. It's so green. I did ok, considering I was wearing open toed shoes (on the course?!? What terrible etiquette...). Ah yes, and the taxis we took were both Dodge Intrepids...classy, right Met? Anyway, back to the golf. Jeff, you should be jealous. We only did 9 holes, but it was great. Chris ended well, which made BOTH of us happy!! I almost had a birdie on the 8th hole. My putt was a ringer (not sure if that's real golf lingo, but that's what my ball did. It rolled right around the hole and came straight back at me a few inches. Heart breaking, really). So, that was my exciting hole, I suppose. After golfing, Chris was starving so we went to Victoria Row and ate at Meeko's. I had a vegetarian pita and he had....take a guess...yup, the pasta mamamia. Go figure! HAHA... We rocked out to jazz music and then did a bit more shopping! All in all, a good day. Until next time....Livin Life Less Ordinary

Welcome to PEI

Well, the flights aren't too bad-when you sleep through all of them. We've had a few fabulous days here. The first day we missed breakfast because we didn't leave the room until 4pm (now don't get any ideas, we were exhausted from the late drive to SLC and then the traveling and 4hr time change ;)! Yesterday we made breakfast and then took a nice little 30km bike ride. I'm not exactly sure how long that is, but i do know it's long enough to make your butt numb and your legs sore. We took the Confederation Trail...it's exhaustingly beautiful. Everything is lush and so colorful. Chris was infatuated with the local bovine. "They're HUGE! Let's take a picture with them..." So we did...only to cross on to private property. Later we went to the Anne of Green Gables play. It was phenomenal-but how could it not be when you're in love with Ann with an "e?" Today was our tour. Just the two of us. We woke up for breakfast and were about to eat, when Shelley (the B&B lady) told us our tour guide was there. Chris said we weren't expecting to see him until 10:20am-it was only 9:20, OR WAS IT. Shelley leans over me and squints at the very large clock against the wall: "It IS 10:20," she says. Yes, so it was. We were an hour late to breakfast the day before and we were an hour late today. We had been waking up to Chris's cell phone alarm, whose time was off. Guess it's just the fate of a Spillers.....
ANYWAY, we did a little shopping and looked at the amazing sand sculptures. We stopped for dinner on our way back to the B&B. We went to Off Broadway. We went in and sat down...it didn't take long for me to realize this was a Fancy Shmancy Resturante!! We had a delicious meal, though i was shrinking in my seat a little as Chris was oblivious to the fact that they stuffed us in the cob webbed corner away from the other "refined guests." BUT, the food was good and they still provided the nice warm washcloths to warm and clean our hands (very upscale, for sure). We payed, Chris left a nice tip :) and we headed down to Cow's Ice Cream (chris has been dying to eat there-go figure, PEI cow fettish. On our walk back "home" we encountered rain. We ate our cones and got drenched with smiles on our faces. Such is the life of a Spillers!! (Getting used to this Spillers thing...oh, the name? no, i'm pretty much over that. It got trumped by the "comedy of errors that are a way of life," as Chris puts it. As the days continue, we will continue to strive and "live a little!"