Summer Travel Map

Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Tropical Storm Chantal

July 31, 2007
Upper Sackville, NS

Monday and Tuesday were almost complete washouts as far as the weather was concerned. It started raining Sunday night and it continued on and off, sometimes heavy, through most of Tuesday. Yesterday, we took it easy, doing some reading and napping, and taking the dogs out as best we could between the raindrops. I was able to get the park’s Wi-Fi working well enough (just not consistently – lots of drop outs) to download some e-bills and update the finances.

For dinner, we had the rest of the rotisserie chicken from Saturday, done up in a quick sauce with spices, onion and garlic and some diced tomatoes, served with angel hair pasta and a nice Chianti. We watched a movie, “The Shooter”, with Mark Wahlberg, which was pretty good for a formula piece.

We learned today that we've been sideswiped by a tropical storm, which apparently formed overnight off the coast. And to think we came this way to avoid the tropical and monsoonal weather!

Today started with another downpour, so we were off to a late start. We wanted to give the new bread machine a try, but found we were an ingredient or two short, so we made a list and headed to the stores. I did some online research into fishmongers and found a couple in Bedford, just north of Halifax. We stopped at the local Visitor Information Centre for some local guides and at Wal-Mart to pick up the photos from the film I dropped off, and then headed to Bedford. We saw another Canadian Tire, and they had the fire ring Geri wanted so we picked that up. We found some nice Haddock and a few scallops at Fish Market International (clever name), and got everything else we needed at Atlantic Superstore. We didn’t eat before we left home, so we were a bit hungry, or grumpy, or both, but we got through it.

Dinner was good but a little difficult to manage with limited counter space due to the bread maker. We had a rather pedestrian Bordeaux that I’d picked up on the cheap at the New Brunswick store (it met our generally low expectations, so it was OK).

Within the space of an hour late today, the skies cleared almost completely. I was able to snap a couple of pictures of the sunset clouds over the coach (I’m trying to take one or two pictures of each place we park), and we sat outside for a while after applying the industrial-strength DEET. We’re in the process of getting a few things ready for tomorrow’s day trip west along the “Lighthouse Trail” toward Yarmouth. It should be a nice, relaxing day…

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