June 23, Tuesday 2009 DAY 32
Today we woke up to the sound of dad making a loud “HONK!” noise. Apparently, Teyauna, my one year old sister, was pressing her nose saying “beep bee beep” and was being replied by mom with her own beeps when dad decided to join in. His excuse is that he doesn’t know how to do soft beep beeps, so he decided on a resounding “HONK!” that woke the whole family and scared Teyauna who quickly hid behind mom and wouldn’t come out until she decided that it would be fun to do it again. Crawling back over to his side of the bed she did her “bee beep” thing which resulted in yet another foghorn wake up call……..
At around 12:30, we arrived at what we thought was a little info center, but turned out to be a place that was all about whales. So, while waiting for our boat trip that dad had arranged about five minutes away, we had a picnic and learned about whales.
The people there were more than happy to tell us different facts and answer our questions. Despite the fact that we are still in Quebec and everyone speaks French, they were quite good with their English, so it wasn’t hard to understand.
After spending almost an hour (lots of our time was taken by our lunch that we ate outside) we headed off to the “AML Cruises” place. The ride we took was supposed to be three hours, but we went a little overtime ’cause we saw more whales than we had expected. It was so amazing! There was a couple (mother and baby) that went right up to the boat! If I jumped overboard, I probably could have landed on one of them!
We weren’t done with boats that day however, because we decided to take a one hour ferry that saved us three hours of driving.
When we finally made it to New Brunswick, Dad, as always, insisted on getting a photo in front of the welcome sign. We all now knew better than to complain, so we all got out.
I think that mosquitoes have just figured out that all they have to do is wait right by the welcome sign and eventually someone will come along for a picture, ’cause this is NOT the first time we have been eaten alive while dad tries to figure out how to set the camera to timer setting. Mom was quite amazing. She was running around crazy waving her arms so that the mosquitoes wouldn’t bite her. We all were trying to slap them and bat at them, but somehow, we all ended up with a few itchy souvenirs.
