First day of school- Trying lobster

As first day of school customs insist, we started our day off with first day pictures. These were taken in front of the RV, in an arena parking lot in Souris PEI. The morning started off cool with a light mist, promising rain by the afternoon and limiting our view of the harbor with fog. It was perfect walking weather, which was good, seeing as we decided to walk today. Once Hunter and Autumn were strapped to our backs, we started our Souris first day of school field trip. Our first stop was a cute little shop that sold local artists creations. If our budget wasn’t so strict, maybe we could have walked away with something. Instead, we chose to feed our family for another week. Art isn’t cheap, nor should it be, but when you are on the road for a month, spending money goes towards experience. After that, nature called and we dashed across the road to a visitor information centre so that our oldest could pee. While there, Elijah obtained a map of the city with tourist attractions on it, a recommendation for lunch and an invitation to visit the town’s museum which was attached to the building. Trying to read anything in a museum is impossible with a two year old running around, but we saw some neat stuff and walked away with a pamphlet detailing town history. From there we walked the rest of the way through town, to a beach that is popular for finding sea glass. We walked the beach for close to half an hour and left with a small handful each of treasure.

At this point, our stomachs were asking for lunch, so we started our trek back into town in search of the Bluefin restaurant, where we would cross ‘Try a lobster’ off of our bucket list, The children weren’t at all turned off by watching their lobster being chosen, learning how to eat one, or by the knowledge that they gained about how lobsters are cooked. We all then satisfied our curiosity and took turns twisting, cracking, sucking and picking at the lobster until it was mostly gone. None of us liked the roe, it turned out that ours was a female, but the rest was quite good, especially with garlic butter. My personal favourite parts were the meat in the claws and the little bits here and there. Would I try it again? Yes, but not at a restaurant. I would love to try cooking one myself, but I honestly wouldn’t go out of my way for a lobster meal. I prefer fish.

After our bellies were satisfied, we began our walk to the lighthouse, stopping halfway for a break at a playground. There they pretended that they were pirates on one of the ships in the harbor and proceeded to take our map and directed us to the lighthouse. I know, you’re thinking “hey, you can’t cross two things off of the list in one day”. Don’t worry, this was just a bonus. It was the very last lighthouse on PEI to employ a lighthouse keeper. We took advantage of the sweet lady who worked there and had a great little tour. The view from the top was amazing. The little girls were too small to go up, but were conveniently asleep for that part, so the adults took turns between watching sleeping babies and looking out over the harbor. We ended our trip with a quick stop at the gift shop, where we bought a neat map of PEI ship wrecks to hang in DJ’s room. Once back in the RV, we had two more quick stops at the liquor store and grocery store for some rye and ginger ale. Now we sit at the campsite, watching the sun set while listening to tired, worn out children melt down, sipping on our purchase.