I'd heard about Brendon Peters on the CBC and sent him an email. We could have a "spooning" session with him while visiting North Rustico. It was a 90 minute workshop and we pretty much had it mastered within the first 10 minutes so I needed to save this situation quickly. Fortunately, he could tell a story or two and I asked him to show us how to adapt playing "spoons" to modern music. It was super easy and we had smiles on the faces of the girls when we did Taylor Swift's "Style" and Miley Cyrus' "Party in the USA". Another saving grace was the song from Anne and Gilbert musical, "You Know You're An Islander". Having just finished reading Chris Hayes' "The Siren's Call", I'd have to say that this activity was a perfect antidote to the attention propaganda that inundates our world today. I found it to be a fun hour and a half and I'd say that 7/10 of us enjoyed it. We all left with a set of "spoons" to play and Atley played every time we were "sitting around" at the house during the next 2 days. I liked the atmosphere of a lobster shanty during our workshop and we sat on lobster traps.
The kids very much wanted to go to a trampoline park - they'd been enticed by a trampoline in the neighbourhood that they were forbidden to use. Parents decided this was a worthwhile way to spend time, so off we went to Charlottetown to watch the kids play. For me, that entertainment lasted about 30 minutes. We drove into town to see if we could get tickets to the "sensory sensitive" performance of Alan Doyle's "Tell Tale Harbour". It was easy to get in - a performance where you didn't get the complete show with all the special effects, but the stars of the show were there. It was also "pay what you will". There were quite a few kids and crying babies, but we did get to see one more show that was part of the PEI entertainment scene in the summer of 2025.
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