A-touristing we did go - Part I

As promised, here is the start of a weekend wrap-up - pictures will be added shortly, so be sure to check back:

We awoke reallllly early on Saturday to embark on our journey to NB. The instructions via Google Maps had us taking a different route to Moncton, which was kinda neat. We headed straight to Hopewell to check into our room at the motel, the Hopewell Rocks Motel and Country Inn. In retrospect this was a little silly - seeing as we headed right back to Moncton, and didn't even drop the luggage in the room. Poor planning, and lack of itinerary - but a spontaneous journey, just the same. We dined on Lonestar for lunch (never a trip to Moncton without going to Lonestar for me). Chris had the ribs, so his experience was a little better for him (he hates the place). From there, we stopped at Princess Auto for Chris, and a scrapbook store for me, and then headed back to Hopewell.

Our sole reason for the trip was to visit the Hopewell Rocks - the tides there being the highest tides in the world - where you can walk on the bottom of the ocean floor, and then 6 hours later, the same spot that you walked is covered with 12 meters of water. By the time we had eaten lunch and made it back to Hopewell it was going on 4:00 and the park closed at 5:00pm (again poor planning...whoopsie). We figured an hour wasn't enough time to get down to see the rocks, so figured we'd wait until Sunday. Forgoing the Rocks, we ended up turning into the NB Railway Museum. The tour was much more than Chris & I anticipated - we had a personal tour guide - Ed, and he walked us through a variety of original railway cars, the museum itself and the history of the Canadian Pacific railroad in NB. It was very interesting.

After the museum, we headed back to the motel to clean up a bit and headed back into Moncton for supper, first stopping at Future Shop to buy more memory for my camera since I took so many pictures at the museum! We supped at Pizza Hut, Chris' favourite. I have to admit, the pizza was better than the fajitas. From there, we headed to an NBLC establishment, picked up a few "sociables", and then headed back to the motel - a nice, relaxing end to a busy day :).

Our journey continues soon :)