2011 in Review: Atlantic Road Trip Honeymoon

What a week!  I finally recovered from my "food poisoning" only to have to spend the next several days dealing with a sick husband.  Turns out it was stomach flu, not food poisoning at all.  Then my little God daughter came to visit and, unfortunately, it got her too.  Sad times have been had by all.
Good news though… I finally got my LSAT score back and I did awesome!
Ok…. before I share more wedding details I wanted to post about the second most exciting thing to have happened to us in 2011- HONEYMOON ROAD TRIP
What started as a "mini moon" turned into the trip of a life time.  It was an excellent Honeymoon idea- low stress and the freedom to do whatever we wanted, when we wanted.  I recommend it to ANYONE, even if you love travelling to far away, exotic places.  We did SO MUCH and enjoyed ourselves entirely.
Here is the story:
The trip started out as any Newfoundland road trip needs to… with the Marine Atlantic ferry ride to Nova Scotia.  Here I am waiting for the boat to arrive:

Since we took the 7 hour night crossing, the first night of our trip was spent sleeping in chairs.  Here is a peek at our accommodations:

Our first stop after reaching the main land was Halifax, Nova Scotia. There, we lived the life of luxury, staying in a hotel on the water front and enjoying the most amazing meal ever at The Bicycle Thief.  We were there during the annual Busker Festival, which was an added bonus.  In the morning  we headed to Mountain Equipment Co. to gear up for our upcoming camping extravaganza! Before heading further West.  Here is the view from our hotel window and some other Halifax sites:



Next- We left the city behind and took the "long way" to Fundy National Park in New Brunswick. For the next couple of nights we tented in the Point Wolfe campground and spent our days watching the tides, getting muddy and making friends with horses.  The camp food was great and the nights were cold- but hey, we were on our honeymoon and had each other to keep us warm!





After we had had enough of Fundy we packed up our tent and headed South.  We stopped in the scenic town of Saint Andrew's By the Sea for lunch.

The first thing we spied as we explored the town was this guy:

Here's Jonny waiting for food and enjoying the view

The next almost full week was spent in Maine… which, we have discovered, is one of the most awesome places ever.  We should honestly move there, they have shopping AND hunting.  They have a Cabela's AND an H&M and they have an awesome "on the go" beach AND snow in Winter.
The first thing we had to do, being Newfoundlanders and all., was indulge in a traditional Maine Lobster bake.  A lobster with muscles, corn, potato and butter in A ROASTER is pure genius.


We also did Guy Fieri proud and stopped at an old diner for a lobster roll:


Besides lobster, Maine also has many many antique shops- which is a love that Jonathan and I both share. My find-

A 1950s sock monkey (Jonathan bought a hundred year old fishing reel)

The Beach (Old Orchard) was amazing


The shopping was amazing

The Macdonalds was amazing

And we ended it all off in Bangor with our tent neatly tucked under a sweet little apple tree, with our campsite neighbours singing us to sleep

After another hotel night back in Canada (Fredericton) we headed to PEI.  Here we did many PEIish things, like buy potato chips, visit the old fashioned town of Avonlea, eat Cow's ice cream and get our truck full of red dirt.  We made sure we experienced it all and crossed over the bridge one way and took the ferry across when we left.  Here are some pictures:






After PEI is was time to head home, back to our own island on the Ferry. We had two weeks of honeymoon adventure and exploration under our belts.  No two days were the same and no time wasn't well wasted.  It will be hard to ever have a better trip.
I loved going back through all these pictures today, as a pile of snow is falling outside my window as I write this :).
Tara