Birthday Weekend Road Trip

I couldn't think of a more clever title :) 

Last month was my birthday. Normally, I do a dinner with my grandparents and parents, however there was a lot of stuff going on with them this summer so I decided not to do the normal and go on a trip instead. My cousin Julianne came along with me which was nice because I think if she didn't, I would not have done some of the things we ended up doing. I had been to Truro (which is in the Bay of Fundy region) and to Joggin's Fossil Cliffs (near the Nova Scotia-New Brunswick border) but had not been to the areas in between on that side of the province so this is where we decided to go. 

She lives in the valley and I am in the city so she slept at my place on Friday night so we could get an early start. We were off by 7 a.m.and our first stop was a place called Hurricane Heidi's Cafe which is in Brookfield, about a 50 minutes drive from Dartmouth. It's a small cafe meaning there is not much seating and it is a popular spot so when we arrived, there was no space for us. We did take out but that did effect what we ordered. This was not the first time I have gone to this cafe before last month; when mom and I are going that way we make a point of stoping in. The owner of the cafe is Heidi Cooke and she is a motocross racer and when I was younger I used to watch her and her brother race in Moncton and in their hometown as well so I wanted to support her. 

Then we drove to Economy to check out the Cliffs of Fundy Welcome Centre to see if we could find anymore information on what to do in the area but it was more of a museum sort of. Through thousands of years of erosion, archaeologist have found interesting rocks and fossils so they have those displayed and some history of how it all happened at this welcome centre. We had mentioned that we wanted to go to Economy Falls while we were there so they gave us directions, follow these not the ones Google gives you to get to it. Google's directions make you have to go in a C and it is very rough where the other ones are a straight line basically. Half way through our drive to the falls we actually debated if we should keep going because it was so bumpy but I have wanted to go to these falls for a number of years so we kept going. The trail really isn't that long, according to my Fitbit watch it was just over 3km there and back but I did not realize that you had to go down stairs to get to the bottom of the waterfall. Again, I had second thoughts about continuing but we said I would regret it if we didn't go down. The waterfall was worth all that trouble and we were able to take a break before going back up to our car. 

We continued on to Parrsboro where we went to the Fundy Geological Museum (more for children), Five Islands Lighthouse and the Parrsboro Lighthouse. For supper, we ate at a restaurant called Granny's Seafood Restaurant and I had a bacon cheeseburger, it was pretty good. We spent the night at the Sunshine Inn which was cute. It had a lake that you could use as well as a giant chess board and fire pit on their property, we didn't do any of that but it was cool to see. 

The next day, we woke up and had breakfast at the inn then drove to Truro for a walk through Victoria Park. This park has a couple of waterfalls so we went to see those. The first time I had been to the park, it was during the winter so everything was very icy and not flowing too well and I wanted to see it again. Had quite a break here and we ended up coming to Jacob's Ladder on our way back to the parking lot. Jacob's Ladder is a 196-step staircase so I had been trying to avoid it but either way, we had to walk up many stairs. We also went to Masstown Market for ice cream before heading home. 

All in all it was a good weekend, nice to get away for a bit and spend some time when my cousin.