PEI: Blueberries and Charlottetown

 

Readers can see from this photo that PEI looks dry!  This was our hottest day and we had plans to be in the city, but in the morning 8/10 of us showed up to a u-pick near Summerside to pick blueberries.  This is a family activity - we all seem to love picking berries.  Within 35 minutes, we had picked $70 worth of blueberries and took them back to the rental house.  They were gone by Sunday and we enjoyed 2 mornings with blueberry pancakes!  Despite the heat, these blueberries turned out very well. 

The afternoon in Charlottetown was hot but we didn't go in "early" and got the grandkids picture in front of Confederation Place where the discussion about forming Canada took place (it's had scaffolding around it for a few years now) and the kids very much enjoyed the Cows store across the street.  Almost everyone had ice cream - this family is pretty addicted to that product.  I can say no to much of it.

After a family dinner at a hotel across from the Confederation Centre and Art Gallery we headed off to our big night out to see "Anne and Gilbert" at the old Holland College theatre.  I enjoyed it very much, but it wasn't Anne of Green Gables.  This is the "sequel" and does follow the story line of Anne's life in college and her resistance to Gilbert's advances, and  of course the story has its happy ending like most of Montgomery's books do.