Monday, February 11, 2019

Who won a Door Prize?

Feb 10/2019  Weather sunny but cold !  We had two days of mid 50’s with frost at night..... then warmer days mid 60s low 40’s at night.  I guess if you were in Arizona this past summer this is a relief!   Ok.  Today is nice 69, feels good.
Big Canada party tonight, potluck, Canadian trivia, prizes,  red & white, games and friendship.  Who won a Door Prize?  Way to go Rosey!!!  And it was such a good one - Tim Hortons Coffee, 2 mugs and a bottle of Irish Cream. We are liking this :)
our Door Prize at the Canada  Party

Provinces at the event were mostly Westerners, especially British Columbia.  We had an interesting couple (Flo & Ed) we sat with, they are from Calgary but building a home in the Magdalen Islands, Quebec.  Do you realize where that is?  It is out way out in the Gulf of the St Lawrence - with a land area of 80 square miles.  That’s tiny!  
Magdalen Islands
Gosh, why would you build a house there, we had to ask. Flo has a Mum, sisters, brothers, there and it was where she was born and raised! Wow!  To get there you can catch a 5 1/2 hour ferry 
ride from Prince Edward Island.   It’s an arpegelo of 8 islands with one highway 60 miles long!  A segment of the population are descendants of survivors of the more than 400 shipwrecks on the islands. Some of the historic houses were built from wood from the shipwrecks.  This is like the land that time forgot!  What an interesting night and we got the “Timmies” , Bonus! 
a settlement on Magdalen Islands

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