Monday Morning:

Today we woke up...about 11:00 AM to the sounds and smells of my wonderful wife making pancakes and bacon. Mmmmmmmm good stuff. We had originally planned to spend the day relaxing here at the cabin but we still haven't found our "monster" lobster. Richard was going to try and find one for us outside of the "normal channels" but the bad weather and the rain (fresh water kills lobsters) coupled with the fact that market price jumped .75 cents a pound over the weekend meant that they sold everything they had.

We decided that, since the Americans had us at a stand still and we only had one day left, we were going to see what we could find back over on Campabello Island. We went back to the restuarant from yesterday where they also had a fish market and found some great looking lobster.

We got a couple of 2 pounders and a couple of 3 1/2 pounders (which are illegal in the U.S.) and loaded them in the cooler. Now that we had our catch for dinner we still wanted to find that "monster" so we went down to the harbor only to find out that they had sold an 18 pounder just yesterday (aaaarrgh...so close!!!). We stopped by two other places but no luck so I guess the big dog gets a free pass on this trip. That's OK though because I don't think it'll be the last time we come out here.

We brought our catch back to the cabin and proceeded to have one of the best dinners EVER!!! The downside was that we really had to work for our food because we didn't have any shell cracker thingys. We had to do it all with forks and fingers (typing gingerly right now). It was a real mess and a whole lot of fun.

OK, it's 1:30 AM and we've got a lot of driving ahead of us tomorrow. I'm not sure if we are actually coming home or stopping somewhere along the way but we have all week so I'm sure we'll make the most of it.

Bye: Craig