Today was our last full day in PEI and the kids spent the majority of the morning sleeping in, as we tired them out yesterday. Once they woke up, we spent the morning doing fun tourist stuff with them. Our first stop was a nearby mini-golf course that was lots of fun. The scores were pretty close and Alex managed to get a hole in one. The location also had a laser tag room, so we stuck around and did that, as the kids were pretty excited about the possibility. There were two other groups of 3 that wanted to play around noon, so with us added in it made a full group. Laser tag is pretty fun, though there were some upset kids at the end due to perceived injustices in play style.
Then it was lunch and out for some more adventuring. There were a couple of lighthouses Sandra wanted to see. We found the first one easily enough, though you had to basically walk through a bunch of long grass to get there. After a few pictures we went to the nearby beach, which was absolutely beautiful. It was a large red sand beach, with hardly any waves. The next lighthouse was a bit sketchier to get to, as the final road to it was a rocky country access road that was only wide enough for one car, and there was a handful of cars at the lighthouse when we arrived, with a couple more that arrived after us. There was also a wedding party taking their pictures there. Luckily we managed to get back to the main road without encountering anyone and then we drove to our final exploration destination, another beach with a cool rock formation at the end of it.
This beach was much busier than the others we have gone to. The access road to it was packed with cars, so we had to park a long way away, and lots of people were on the beach. However, it was also a very nice, large beach, with waves, but it really looked like it stayed shallow for a long way. Unfortunately, the rock Sandra wanted to see required you to walk around a rock formation that stuck into the water. We weren't dressed for water, so I decided to stay behind, as did Alex and Evan. On the rocks, Bradley immediately fell down, and as I watched, I got quite concerned that they weren't going to be able to make it on the rocks without falling. Sandra paused for a long time and then waded into some deeper water, but by that time, the two younger kids were out of my sight, so I didn't know what was happening to them.
However, once Sandra was in the water, she looked much more stable, and she got the boys to walk back to me. Bradley was actually hurt and crying, as he had scraped himself on the rocks, but it didn't take long before he was running back into the water. It didn't hurt that a friendly dog with a ball wandered by and dropped it by the three younger kids feet, so they happily spent some time throwing the ball into the water for the dog.
On the way back to the motel, we had a bit of a momentous occasion as our van hit 100,000km, so we stopped for a quick picture. Then it was supper, back to the first beach to play in the water for awhile, where Jonathan found a clam of some sort in a fist full of mud, and finally back to the motel for Bradley to swim in the pool, as he wanted to swim everywhere. Tomorrow we leave PEI and head back to New Brunswick, as we start the back home part of our trip.
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