What a day!

Breakfast at Eden Hall b&b our friendly girl on the day shift, Judy, enticed us to stay another night. We had to move from our king suite to a queen suite as the king was booked for tonight. The queen downstairs is still very nice.
Another couple who are also guests were telling us about all the music going on tonight, that cemented our reason to stay.
Judy, the hostess is an enthusiastic girl, she is also a Newfie. I told her that  I had just been in a NYC and had gone to......before I could say Come From Away.....she said it for me! She was so excited, and told me about when the play opened in New York how all the Newfies who were involved got on a bus to New York and attended the premiere. When they left the play and got back to their bus they found notes pasted to it thanking them again for all they did.
Soon we were moving on to explore more of the island. ....jeff was still not convinced we would not find my sun glasses so on our way we stopped again at McDonalds. We looked on the ground in the parking lot (we had stopped there yesterday to use the bathroom) and i again went in to ask if they could check their lost and found......much to my shock and  amazement, they had them! I was over the moon!
We drove to a town called Rustico 20km outside Charlottetown, more Rowan trees and colourful rural scenery. Many businesses closed now as the busy season is past. Next up was the town of Cavendish, many towns with Scottish names. There are many wild red fox in the area and we came across one basking in the sun on the grassy verge right next to the road. He was not at all bothered we were there! Just down the road we parked and walked to a lookout where the red clay cliffs fell sharply to the sea.....erosion quite evident. In the water lies the remains of the clipper ship Marco Polo, many of the crew are buried in the Cavendish cementary.  Also in the cementary is the grave of Lucy Maude Montgomery, author of Anne of Green Gables. Many of the descendants of the Montgomery’s still live on the island as do many descendants of the original immigrants.
We paid a visit to the home Lucy grew up in and wrote her story of Anne. Entry was free, as are all parks in Canada for our 150th birthday celebration. It was a joy to visit without the crowds there are in the high season.
We had covered quite a bit of the island, over 250 km, a prosperous island, with corn, potatoes, llamas, goats, Holstein cows, lobster fishing and oyster beds.
Back to our b&b for a quick stop then a walk into town to The Churchill Pub for a cleansing ale, or two before we crossed the street to The Steak  and Lobster House. An early dinner of mussels, scallops and seafood chowder as we were going to the Triangle Pub for the music.
It is sort of like the pickers circle in Luckenback Texas where musicians drop in and play together. This pub hosts drop ins every Thursday. Tonight there were 14 playing fiddles, a keyboard, guitar, drums and one fellow singing. The musicians ranged in age from youngins to grandmas! We joined a table with a couple and their 12 yr old daughter, who told us more about what to do and see before we left PEI. It is fun to get to know the friendly locals. Just before we left one of the musicians came over to talk to us and when jeff told him I played the fiddle (#*&,!)eek! He went and got me a copy of a publication called Island Fiddler😛!
It was a really good day....I got my expensive sunglasses back and we enjoyed fiddling music.....and we were told the leaves and the fiddling in Cape Breton are stellar ........where we are heading tomorrow!