YOU MUST BE FROM GERMANY!

We awoke to some bright "death ray" looking thing coming through our bedroom window. Oh yea, the SUN! We hadn't seen that since we got to Canada on Friday. We decided to have breakfast in the hotel in order to save a little time for our longest ride of the trip. We left Halifax around 9 AM, and pointed our bikes north. It didn't take long until we were outside the city doing 80 MPH on a 4 lane highway. About 40 minutes into the ride, Erin was fast asleep her little helmeted head resting on Jenn's back, but with the 5 point harness keeping her safe and connected to Jenn, I took some video for posterity, pretty darn cute though. Daniel had earlier suggested a side trip to Cape George, which only added about 30 miles to the ride, but promised some good views of the ocean. The first 1/2 was a pleasant 2 lane country road that could be found in any place in North Georgia, some mild twisties, but nothing that required driving below 50 MPH. Soon we were getting glimpses of the ocean, and before long we had constant vistas over our left handlebar. We took a brief stop at a remote lighthouse and snapped some pictures, absolutely beautiful.

The sky a robin egg blue, brightly colored lobster boats running their trap lines in the ocean behind us, and a mild 73 degrees  sunny day. It was one of those rides where everything comes together perfectly that will be remembered for a long time. We eventually found our way back to the interstate and started working our way to Port Hawkesbury, our stop for the day. Erin, although sleeping much of the day, had completed her first 200 mile day! We actually got to the Maritime Inn at about 3:30, so Jenn and Erin went down to the pool for a while before dinner. I went searching on foot for some small items that we needed, and found a drug store (think CVS) a couple of blocks away. One my way back I passed a McDonald's that was advertising a McLobster sandwich. On my return Daniel and I said we were going to have to try one of those before we left Nova Scotia.  As the restaurant in our hotel didn't open until 6:30 and it was only 5 PM, we decided to find something close by to quickly fill our bellies, without having to wait for another 1 1/2 hours. It happens that right across the street was the "Rose House Chinese Buffet"! I know, I know, not traditional Nova Scotia fare, but we thought it fit our requirements (close, open, belly filling food). So we walked over an sat down, only to find they had all of about 15 things on their buffet. But we all found something to eat, and they made some fresh California Roll (sushi) for us, so we filled our plates and commenced to eatin'! During our dessert course (self serve hand dipped ice cream), Daniel, Jenn and I got into a very meaningful debate about the proper way to pronounce Caramel, and during that discussion Jenn attempted to spell it the way I was pronouncing it "Care-a-mel (the way any proper Baltimoron would pronounce it!) , and after a couple of attempts, she completed the attempt successfully. While Daniel and Jenn said it was pronounced just the way it is spelled (Car-a-mel). I know pretty deep conversation for world travelers such as we! Anyway, what I failed to mention was that Jenn had a few cocktails before dinner, and in her first attempt she spelled it C-E-A-R-A-M-E-L. Daniel and I had a good laugh and when the Asian waitress brought us our bill, she asked Jenn: " Are you from Germany?". We looked at each other kind of dumbfounded, and said no, we were from the state of Georgia in the US. She said "Oh Sorry, but when I heard the lady trying to spell caramel, I thought she must be from Germany". We laughed our way back to our room, and settled in for the night. Tomorrow, we enter the Cabot Trail, but we hear there are storm clouds a brewin' in the local weather forecast.  So there may be more wet riding in our future!