Another Day of Adventure

It was another early morning for me as I woke at around 6am and couldn't get back to sleep. Our room has a beautifully big half moon window with only the lower half covered by curtains, so I get full sunshine as soon as dawn arrives.
Not long after I woke up, J. came down and we had some coffee and checked the morning news online. G. and K. also woke up fairly early this morning, which is odd since they have typically been waking up between 9 and 10am. The kids had breakfast and then quickly got dressed to go play outside. It's so nice that they can go and play without supervision. Though the house in on a highway, we are set far back from the road and the kids enjoy playing in the backyard.
At around 11am, we decided to head to Confederation Trail and then the North Cape to do some more geocaching. The twins are in love with these nature scavenger hunts and it's an amazing way to show them what it's like to work, as a team, toward a common goal. The feeling they get when they find a cache is the same feeling most of us get when we set a goal and accomplish it. I believe it leads to internal motivation, which is great for everyone.
Confederation Trail has thousands of geocaches, but most are hidden in the forest, where mosquitoes love to lie in wait for their victims. Poor K. with her sweet blood wasn't faring well there, so we opted to leave and move on northward.
We stopped along the way, to find our first cache of the day. This one was in the brush, but because it was in a large container, it was easy to spot. It's always exciting to find one.

We got back in the car and headed toward another one. Deeper along an ATV path, we found this one in an abandoned chicken coop.

The cache is right by K.'s right cheek.

Seeing that there was yet another farther down the trail where we found the chicken coop, we ventured to find that one as well. The hint said that this one was about 5.5 feet off the ground and, soon, I spied it on a tree.

The cache is up in the tree to the left.

By this point, everyone was getting hungry for some lunch, so we made our way into Tignish to grab something to eat. First, we stopped at "Shirley's Cafe", but checking out the menu proved that it had little for the twins. I remembered that there was a little restaurant in the local coop, so we drove across the street to check it out. Sure enough, there was a wide variety of items from which to choose. The kids each had grilled cheese and an order of fries and Joel had a lobster roll. I ate the scraps, as I usually do (and a large amount of fries). The fries on PEI are like none other. Delicious! It seemed like everyone who came into the diner knew someone. Tignish is tiny, so it's likely that everyone does know everyone!

After lunch, we headed to Tignish Shore to search for more geocaches. While searching for one near the fishery, two men in a pick-up truck stopped on the side of the road and said, "How's Ontario?". At first, I was worried that they were up to no good, but it soon became apparent that they were genuinely interested in us and what we were doing. We chatted a little while, then headed off to the oceanfront to search for more caches. We were unsuccessful with the first, but found the next two.

It's difficult to see, but there is a container just in front of G.

J. bought the twins each an ice cream cone at the snack bar on the beach. While eating their cones, a lady named Mary who was walking along the boardwalk stopped to talk to us. She is a native of Tignish and a former teacher. She chatted about the area, about the people, and then gave me a big hug before she headed off to finish her walk (she told us she walks the boardwalk every day). The people here are incredibly kind.

By this point, we were all a little tired and a little cold, so we decided to head back to the cottage.

We spent the rest of the afternoon and evening painting, playing games, and enjoying the country life at the cottage.