Forecast is wind, wind, and more wind!

We have finally arrived!  Almost a month to the day from leaving Kelowna, 13 days on the road, 5400+ km's, and approximately 50 viewings of the movie Cars, we crossed Confederation Bridge at 5:00 PM ADT.  Our trailer containing all of our "stuff" did not make the journey across the bridge due to high winds on the bridge, and all tractor-trailers, RV's, towing, and "high-sided" vehicles had to pull over and wait.  The bridge staff directing people to pull over noted that the wind gusts on the bridge were clocked at 100 kph.  I'm guessing that is a mild breeze in PEI standards.  We tried to wait a while to see if would re-open, but after an hour and a half passing by, and two kids going squirrley (we did promise them this would be the last day of travel), we headed back to Sackville, NB for some lunch.  While driving through Sackville (not even an hour after we left the bridge), we heard on the radio that the bridge was open and traffic in both directions was flowing smoothly!  So, after lunch we headed back to the bridge only to find out that it was still closed!  Apparantly, different broadcast stations were relaying conflicting info and bridge traffic was still closed and had never resumed.  There we were, future landlord's expecting us, kids going squirrley, Shan's eye's a rolling (she loves the wind), we dropped our trailer off at a diner parking lot and high-tailed across the bridge to PEI.  Wow, was it gusty.  The steering wheel was at a good 20-30 degree tilt the entire way across, and I'm sure if we had the trailer it would have pulled it and the truck (along with us) into icy Atlantic.

We indeed made it across and met our new landlords, and they are fantastic people.  The farmhouse is very nice, newly renovated, spacious, clean, and well organized.  The house sits on six acres of land on the top of rolling hills,with 360 degree views of surrounding farmland.  When we pulled up the driveway, there were some cows in pasture nearby which Liam loved!  The cows won't be here long, they are going to a "different" place soon.

Our first night involved picking the rooms that we were all going to sleep in.  Liam and Alaina are going to share a room, and I'm hoping that Shan and I will be able to share a room once again.  Liam enjoyed getting acquainted with his room and is probably just glad that we aren't traveling anymore.  Alaina just "goo-goos" and "ga-gaas", and is at the stage where she will do whatever we say.  What a good little girl.  Barely made a fuss the entire trip.  We had a pretty good night's sleep in the strange beds, and woke up early by our standards.  We had no food, so priority one was finding a Tim Horton's.  Being Sunday, we kind of figured that not a lot of stores would be open early on Sunday...after all, everyone here is probably in church until noon!  We hit the Tim's, and with the weather forecast on our side, he paid our first dues ($42.50) and hopped back on the bridge to go get our trailer before the wind picked up once again.  You see, everyone is welcome to PEI, but they get you when you try to leave!  The trailer was back on the vehicle we did the bridge thing yet one more time and headed off towards the Superstore in Summerside for some supplies.  We arrived back home in the afternoon and unloaded the trailer and gobbled down a nice home-cooked meal (a first in a long time for us).  There are a lot of boxes around now, and I know we'll have to do it all again in 8 months, but I think in the end, the trip will be well worth it.  Worth what you ask?  Worth the experience, the sights seen along the way, and getting to meet new people here and across the country.

What I like about PEI already, and probably more so about the place currently living, is the tranquility.  It really is peaceful here.  If you need to go anywhere, everything you need (except for a Costco which will cost us $42.50 every time) is inside of twenty minutes!  The locals are friendly, and the pace of life slowed down at the northern end of that bridge.  We're hoping to continue on with some stories of adventure while experiencing the seasons out here, I know winter will be interesting.  Thanks to everyone for following us across Canada.  I'm hoping you could live a little bit through us should you have ever dreamed of traveling across the country with two small children!