PEI - Day 6 - Singing along to Stompin' Tom on the North Coast

Pretty good morning considering James decided he was not sleeping for a few hours in the middle of the night.  We leave the campsite and head towards O'Leary to go to the Potato Museum.  The North Coast trail is alright but I wouldn't say a must see.  It's hard to take in everything at the museum with James.  The first thing he sees when we arrive is a sand box with tractors! We try to take in as much as we can but I've got to say that it is tough with my crazy monkey going around.  We found his
exhibit! Old tractors.  That boy loves tractors.

 The potato museum wouldn't be complete without a taste test so we decide to have lunch there and we break the Keto rules for a poutine and an amazing order of fresh cut fries.  Worth the cheat for sure.

Next, Stompin' Tom museum in Skinners Pond.  Wow! Great little museum.  Gaby loved singing karaoke to the 'Good old hockey Game'.  They have a live singer and we took in a good 30 minutes of songs.  We really enjoyed it.   Even James was singing and clapping along. On the grounds, they have the oldest school house of PEI furnished the way it would have been and also the house where Tom spent 4 years of his childhood.  He was adopted from an orphanage from a couple from Skinners Pond.  He had a rough go in his early days.  Comparable to the 'Hip', Stompin' Tom is a true Canadian legend.  Canada written all over his heart, he sang in nearly every little canadian small town.  We even drove to Belleville not long before he died to watch him play and it was indeed a memorable night!

We continue our trek up the coast to make it to North Cape. They have a museum on wind turbine energy.  Janet, my RMC girlfriend, had told me that at North Cape the tides meet...If she would not have told us, I would have never known. 

We enjoyed the museum and the kids actually aloud us to take it all in.  It must be because it was more geeky science stuff that I enjoyed it :)  I'm not a museum girl. We head back and stop in Tignish for some veggies for supper.  It was a small Co-op grocery store and there wasn't much available.  We were hoping to find a spot to boondock but we have come to the conclusion the the entire island is populated. Locals have their own trailers set up on what I assume is their property by the ocean.  We tried but to no avail so we head back to the spot where we spent the first two nights.  Justin loves the view of the ocean.  The last 30 minutes is just a little too much for James.  Luckily, there is one spot left for us by the ocean!  We setup, feed the kids and James is off to bed and Gab is off to the playground with tons of kids.  I get to enjoy the last GINORMOUS lobster!  yum!!

and a repeat... Ocean view, sunset, fire and my lover!
Island life is great!