Sad to see the weekend end

Words cannot express how fantastic Friday night's Matt Andersen concert was... St Mary's Church in Indian River was built in 1902, and it has a vaulted wooden ceiling, providing world- renowned acoustics. It's known as one of the top 10 places in the world to perform. The Indian River Festival is held every year, and this year marks the first year Matt has performed there (I can only hope the first of many more to come). He remarked that it was the 'prettiest place he'd ever performed'. He played to a full house...the crowd completely silent as he belted out his soulful lyrics, and demonstrated his incredible guitar moves. As an encore, he had the crowd up on their feet, singing along to "Wagon Wheel", ending with him unplugging and walking up & down the aisle, completely acoustic. Again, if you've not yet had an opportunity to see this man perform, you've done yourself a disservice...go at your next opportunity (which just so happens to be a folk festival in Summerside next month).





Saturday, I got up early, and cleaned the house while listening to Matt on the iPod. I managed to get 4 loads of laundry done, the floors swept and scrubbed, the bathroom & kitchen cleaned, and the rug vacuumed. I felt very accomplished - and was impressed with myself that I got as much done as I did seeing as it was so hot. My only regret was not getting outside to enjoy the beautiful day. Saturday evening, we joined Steve, Wanda, Mary Ellen, Patrick, Leann & Cindy at the races. I hadn't been out there for YEARS...since I dated Weasel. I had a good time. It was a special night of racing being that the Maritime Prostock tour was there, and the finale was a hundred lap race. 25 stock cars racing on a short track led to some interesting moments to say the least.

Today was another beautiful, warm day, so Chris & I took advantage of it. He had to head out to the North Shore to track points of his upcoming photo tour, so we both headed out with cameras in hand to see what was photo-worthy. We ended up first at Cavendish Beach, staying there a long time. We walked along the beach and through the Dunelands. Here are a few of my favourite pictures from the beach:



After Cavendish, we headed to North Rustico, stopping at the gift shop on the wharf - and to our delights, hearing the sounds of Matt as we walked in! The girl at the cash is a personal friend of Matt's. Very cool! We ate supper at Amanda's Restaurant in North Rustico (very good), and finished our day at New Glasgow Country Gardens. It's pretty late in the season, so a lot of the flowers looked half-dead, but I did manage to take some pictures of a few nice flowers. We had a homemade ice cream there, and then called it a day.









Sunburned, and tired from the walking, we shall sleep well tonight!