Sept 4 and 5 - The days After
St. John's enroute to North Sydney
The overnight at the Salvation Army Temple was nice. We shared the room with Don, Joyce, Bob, myself and Kevin and Anna Russell. The SNORING from the 3 males, unreal!! At one point, Bob sat up in the dark and was staring at snoring Kevin....I reminded him that he had been in tune also, so to go back to sleep!
I was up around 6:30...Joyce and Don around 7. Don wandered off for coffee. Kevin and Anna had left earlier to watch the sunrise from Signal Hill. We had breakfast, packed up and managed to get everything loaded in car and our bikes on rack. We said our final farewells and were off, sightseeing and exploring St. John's. Our first stop was back to Signal Hill...where I found my bike mirror, which obviously had fallen off yesterday (and I didn't notice until last night). We watched some ship traffic navigate through the narrow gut opening. Next downtown to walk. Unfortunately it was a holiday so the gift and novelty stores were the only things open. We walked several streets, stores and then asked about a good place to find a seafood meal...we were thinking about lobster. We were told about Kaye's and found it. We decided against lobster seeing it was $27.00, and Joyce and I had a seafood chowder. We both felt it was just ok, nothing great.
After lunch, which was now mid afternoon, we drove near the university before heading off in the direction to catch the ferry. We took the scenic route...through more more impressive vastness of nothingness. We could see the ocean at one side and then would climb high above and follow a range that stretched forever. No wonder the explorers felt that the earth was flat! We found a nice place to eat in Placentia. Then headed off to the ferry only to discover as we were getting in line that I had left my wallet in the restaurant. We were able to swing back for it... and the waitress had it! She had called ahead to the ferry to have them advise me, but I had noticed it missing first.
We sat in the terminal having met up with Janice, Reg, Iona, Len, Wendy and Jim. We shared some good laughs. We got on board just after 11:20 and I fell asleep only to be awakened by the loudest snoring!! There were 2 people sawing logs!! UNREAL. I do believe they woke the loudest offender and permitted him to lie on the floor (normally a no no) just to stop him from snoring. The room settled down and I was able to catch some sleep.
I am writing this on board, some 8 1/2 hrs. into the 14 hour crossing. It has been a rough and rocky crossing....much, much worse than the crossing to Port Aux Basque. Don isn't feeling too great. Joyce, Bob and I have had breakfast and now I am heading off to watch the movie.
The overnight at the Salvation Army Temple was nice. We shared the room with Don, Joyce, Bob, myself and Kevin and Anna Russell. The SNORING from the 3 males, unreal!! At one point, Bob sat up in the dark and was staring at snoring Kevin....I reminded him that he had been in tune also, so to go back to sleep!
I was up around 6:30...Joyce and Don around 7. Don wandered off for coffee. Kevin and Anna had left earlier to watch the sunrise from Signal Hill. We had breakfast, packed up and managed to get everything loaded in car and our bikes on rack. We said our final farewells and were off, sightseeing and exploring St. John's. Our first stop was back to Signal Hill...where I found my bike mirror, which obviously had fallen off yesterday (and I didn't notice until last night). We watched some ship traffic navigate through the narrow gut opening. Next downtown to walk. Unfortunately it was a holiday so the gift and novelty stores were the only things open. We walked several streets, stores and then asked about a good place to find a seafood meal...we were thinking about lobster. We were told about Kaye's and found it. We decided against lobster seeing it was $27.00, and Joyce and I had a seafood chowder. We both felt it was just ok, nothing great.
After lunch, which was now mid afternoon, we drove near the university before heading off in the direction to catch the ferry. We took the scenic route...through more more impressive vastness of nothingness. We could see the ocean at one side and then would climb high above and follow a range that stretched forever. No wonder the explorers felt that the earth was flat! We found a nice place to eat in Placentia. Then headed off to the ferry only to discover as we were getting in line that I had left my wallet in the restaurant. We were able to swing back for it... and the waitress had it! She had called ahead to the ferry to have them advise me, but I had noticed it missing first.
We sat in the terminal having met up with Janice, Reg, Iona, Len, Wendy and Jim. We shared some good laughs. We got on board just after 11:20 and I fell asleep only to be awakened by the loudest snoring!! There were 2 people sawing logs!! UNREAL. I do believe they woke the loudest offender and permitted him to lie on the floor (normally a no no) just to stop him from snoring. The room settled down and I was able to catch some sleep.
I am writing this on board, some 8 1/2 hrs. into the 14 hour crossing. It has been a rough and rocky crossing....much, much worse than the crossing to Port Aux Basque. Don isn't feeling too great. Joyce, Bob and I have had breakfast and now I am heading off to watch the movie.
posted by Unknown at 7:40 PM
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Happy Birthday Jill!
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