Leaving NS For 1st Time in 29 Months

For the first time in 29 months, I left my home province of Nova Scotia to go travelling and I was very excited.

I have done a few road trips around NS the past two years (that I have shared on this blog) as we have mostly been forced to stay close to home. The last time I went on a trip outside of this province was in February 2020 when I travelled to Winnipeg for a Jets hockey game. Just like last year, I decided to do a road trip to celebrate my birthday and once again my cousin came with me. We took a three-day road trip to Prince Edward Island in mid-July. 

PEI is the smallest province in Canada and the birthplace of Confederation. We didn't check out anything really that had to do with confederation because there were other things I wanted to do in Charlottetown. My cousin and I left Wolfville around 9am, met up with my dad in Windsor so he could wish me a Happy Birthday in person than remade a stop in Oxford. The town of Oxford, Nova Scotia is known as the wild blueberry capital of Canada and because of that, they have a gigantic blueberry statue which I have wanted to see for a while. After we ate lunch we kept going to Charlottetown some could check in to our motel and chill out for a couple of hours. I was really wanting steak for supper so we went to a restaurant called Redwater Rustic Grille and celebrated my birthday. 

The next day, we headed to the north side of the island to check out the Anne of Green Gables museum. I'm glad we got there before they even opened because by the time we left, the parking lot was full. It was raining that day but it didn't ruin really what I wanted to do. We than went to the Cavendish Boardwalk where I got some Cows ice cream. The boardwalk was not what I was expecting but it was still nice to visit it. 

Than we drove to the beach, the sun came out while we were there but we didn't go swimming. We hung around watching the kids have fun in the water than we just drove the long way back to Charlottetown. Part of our drive was through the Prince Edward Island National Park which was really pretty. 

On Wednesday before we went back home, we visited the Argyle Shore Provincial Park and Victoria. Argyle Shore is best known for its red sand beaches and that was one thing I wanted to see. It is very shallow for a long time so kind of hard to go swimming at the Argyle beach but we did walk in our bare feet which was really nice actually. 

I had a good time and it was so nice to visit another province. Hopefully I'll get to check more things off my summer fun list. Follow more of my adventures on Instagram at @adventuresofansgirl 

Summer fun list
- Road trip for my birthday ✓
- Walk on a red beach ✓
- Check out a National Park ✓