Deep Sea Fishing/ Anne of Green Gables

Ryan with his big catch

           Seriously.  If you had the choice which would you rather do?  Those were the options for the day.  So Ryan and I opted to go deep sea fishing.  $70 for both of us, 3 hours on the ocean with a guaranteed catch of mackerel and cod.  I had no idea what we were in for.  8 of us went out and it turned out that one family with us had 2 boys, 10 & 7 and were from London.  The kids instantly hit it off and the parents were very nice.  They have relatives in Puce and go to Lakeshore Discovery.  Anyways, we go out about 20 minutes and stop. The captain says here is how you do it.  Drop the line, count to 5 and reel up.  He comes up with 2 mackerel on his line (each line had 2 hooks).  So we drop our line in and sure enough everyone had 2 on their line (see video below).  It was almost stupid how easy it was and honestly, not a whole lot of fun.  The captain showed us a ripple in the water and said that was the school of mackerel.  There must have been thousands.  The mackerel were then used as bait for the harder to catch cod (a larger fish also).  We went out another 20 minutes and now you could not see land.  This time you had to let the line sink all the way to the bottom and slowly reel up.  Ryan dropped his in and says to me that he has a bite.  I am thinking no way but his line was bending big time and he could barely turn the reel.  He asked if I could reel it in for him.  I told him “you snag it, you reel it in”.  The next 10 minutes were quite comical as Ryan struggled to reel in this cod.  When he finally got it to the surface, he had 2 on his line and fairly large ones.  I was also successful in catching a large cod.  When we got back, MP, Hannah and Emily were waiting for us and shocked at our catch.  The girls were even more shocked when the captain started cutting up the spoils and handing out everyone’s portion.  As a matter of fact, Hannah went a little grey in the face. 

           We stopped at a grocery store on the way home for some butter and that became our supper for the night.  It was very good.  MP and I ended up eating it all.  Hannah was going to be sick.

            The girls opted for Anne of Green Gables.  So they dropped us off and headed for the hills. 

The girls at Anne of Green Gables

The rest is according to Emily:  Anne of Green Gables is a book and a movie about a girl who is an orphan.  The place we went to see was the authors home and where she wrote Anne of Green Gables.  We went into the cousins house and the aunt and uncles.  Hannah and I got to sit in a carriage.  In the corner of the aunt and uncle’s house there was a fire but it didn’t burn down the house.  We went on a little walk and it was a nice walk.  We saw lots of nature stuff.  I had lots of fun there.