Maritimes - Day 27

Today's post is a little late, as we didn't get back to the hotel until 11:30pm and that was time for bed.  For our first full day on PEI, we went to all the Anne stuff in the morning, primarily because we didn't actually know where we were going.  At the tourist office, I had picked up brochures for the Anne of Green Gables Museum, which isn't the Anne of Green Gables Historic Site, which isn't the Anne of Green Gables whatever, because everything around here is named Anne of Green Gables something and claims some relevance to L.M. Montgomery.

Anyway, we drove out to the museum and toured the house, which is an old house owned by L.M. Montgomery's grandparents.  As we toured it, Sandra pointed out that this isn't the house we were at last time, so after leaving, we found the historic site, which is the big place that everyone goes to.  Unfortunately, travel now is much more common than travel 16 years ago, and it is way more commercialized, with a giant parking lot and a huge Parks Canada building you have to walk through to get to the house.  Still, it was the same house as before and it was nice to see it and to take the walks through the forest.

We then returned to our motel for lunch and then walked to a nearby amusement park with go-karts for Evan.  We walked more than we needed to so we could get to some traffic lights and avoid running across the busy highway.  At the go-karts, Evan and Jonathan each drove by themselves, while I took Bradley in a double kart.  As we were near the front of the line, we were able to watch the karts on track and pick the ones that looked faster, so Bradley and I were able to get in what looked to be the quickest double kart.

I was pretty excited to drive the kart and didn't hold anything back and Bradley only lasted about three laps before he covered his eyes.  I should have slowed down for him, but I was having too much fun.  After we got off, he pointedly walked up to Sandra and held her hand as we walked out of the park.  He says he's never getting in a go-kart with me again.

Then we did a bunch of shopping and ended up a nearby burger restaurant in an old church (that L.M. Montgomery attended).  It's called BOOMBurger and the ads were all about using local meat, potatoes, cheese and butter, so we thought it would be cool to try.  Upon entering the church and ordering, it was apparent that while the restaurant does use local ingredients, it is literally a rebranded Five Guys.  Other than the font and the logos, everything was identical.  So, not a bad meal, and Evan loved the fries.

After some ice cream, we rested for a bit and then drove out to a nearby drive-in movie theatre, because no one in my family has ever done that (and technically, I've only worked at them, I don't believe I've ever attended a movie).  It was a nice fun night and the kids got to watch the DC League of Super Pets movie.  As the theatre was about a 25min drive from our motel, it was quite late when we got back, so it was bedtime for everyone.