Day 8 – 9/11 – Green Gables

Breakfast, Check Out, On the Bus

Cheryl with Steven (our tour guide) and Doris (our bus Driver)

Doris wore her lobster socks in honor of lobster day.

On the way to Green Gables Cheryl asked me if I had mentioned corn mazes with short corn.

They grow short corn stalks here -which is kind-of cheating when they make corn mazes.

But I also wanted to point out:

PEI is basically a big sand dune – with high iron content in the sand. It’s really red and makes for really rich soil.

We were also impressed by how neat and well-kept everything is.

Our first stop today was Green Gables. Lucy Maude Montgomery put PEI on the tourist map in 1908 when her first book “Anne of Green Gables” was published. The story drew from her own experiences growing up in Cavendish. The house “Green Gables” actually belonged to a cousin of her grandparents who lived on the next farm over. But Lucy spent much time there as a young girl. Today the house/farm is a national park – one of the most visited in all of Canada.

When we arrived we were greeted by a tour guide who gave us a brief overview, escorted us to the intro movie and then walked us thru the barnyard to the house. The house is as it was when Montgomery used to visit – except that the gables have been painted green (because that’s easier than explaining to each and every visitor why the green gables was a construct of the author’s imagination).