Here's the SCOOP

My trip was worth the visit ... yea to YES!  Campobello Island in Canada is like taking a trip back in time and that was AWESOME.  Everyone knows everyone.  Everyone knows everything that happens on the island.  Most have no TV.  People take walks and drives and KNOCK on doors - unplanned!  Given our current climate at home (ugh Trump), it was a welcomed example of simpler days.

And EVERYONE hates Trump.  My people.

And it was CHILLY.  I slept with the window open - fog horns in the background.  It's a real-deal fishing island.  I felt like I was in a novel - corny, but cool!

My aunt's cottage is spectacular ... tiny, but spectacular.  She's one of those triple threats ... decorator, caterer, host extraordinaire.  She's done all three professionally after she retired from teaching.  Vegetables from her garden, baked goods (all gluten-free) like you've never had before, fresh seafood from the locals.  Plated on vintage dishes from the previous owner.  I didn't get any pictures of the interior though.  Bummer.

Dahlia from gardens at FDR's summer home.

Huge oval window made of optical glass at FDR home.
Magnifies the outside with perfect clarity and no distortion.

View outside my aunt's cottage.  Highest tide change in the world.  The boats float at the top of
 the dock all the way to about 5 times their height below.  It's deceivingly deep.

Maine lobster, just over boarder.  I've never had a whole one.  Clams, winkles and oysters too.

The island is beautiful.

Whale watching.  Fin backs and others I can't spell lol.  

The working light houses were just as you imagined they should look.  When the tide is out, you can walk to this light house.  That's how much the tide shifts.  This was at high tide so the boat was able to maneuver next to it.

A walk back in time.  Ukulele band sing-along at the local coffee shop.  Corny and awesome and so much fun. 

The weather cleared Thursday afternoon and we were able to do some of the outdoor activities.  I'll write more tomorrow about my free "souvenirs" ... super cool.

No exercise though.  Why?  The upstairs room where I stayed creaked and squeaked if you moved at all.  As you walked around the bed, the ceilings sloped so I couldn't even stand up straight.  It wasn't worth the attempt at anything.  No worries.  Back at it with a long, hard, interval run.  Absence makes the heart grow fonder - missed you treadmill.

My gel polish lasted one week.  Not worth the price or the nail damage.  I might be saying good-bye to gel (with some exceptions).  I forgot how shinny my nails look - that I like a lot - so for very specific occasions I might get it again.  Back to the home stuff for now.  Maybe it's my nail tech?

We survived IRMA and all her destruction (as did our family and friends in FL).  Living at the tippy top of the state was to our advantage yesterday.  People about 30 miles south of us got pummeled - and still no power.  We had some blow-the-5-pound-dog-away winds but not even a flicker of the lights.  Once all of our people were in for the night, hubby and I hit up the drinks.  That's unusual that we both drank lol.  Just a couple of pina coladas with left-overs from his party (I still had the pineapple frozen - thanks food saver).  I don't love a frozen drink though.  I'm over it until next summer.

Today begins the clean-up-my-diet road that I know so well.  Remember those "skinny" jeans - well, time to work on getting back into them.  Fall IS around the corner (even in the south) and I have some work to do (actually, a lot of work to do).

Today is a hibernation day.  Ugh - I know.  Maybe that's not a great idea.  Lots of stuff closed with the storm - still raining.  I'm stocked up with no place urgent to go.  As I'm typing this, I wonder if I should force myself out.  I'll give it some thought.  The rest of the week is busy so a quiet day to myself might be a good thing.

Later gators.