Canada 15

New Brunswick is our home for a few days.  We drove from Quebec and took about two days, but we did stop at a few places to see interesting things.  We are using New Brunswick as our jump off point to visit Prince Edward Island (or PEI) and Nova Scotia.

We our first stop in NB was in a town called Grand Falls because, guess what, it had a falls in town!  How ingenious!  But seriously - on Monday the falls were dry, no water at all - they were in a drought.  Then two days later this is what we saw ----------------
They usually use this as a flow release dam, but the river behind it was rising.  The Maritimes have had 48 hours of continuous rain, not hard just continuous.  Everything is soaked.  They had also just installed a new zip line that goes over the falls and a training class was going on when we were there.

Our next stop was in Florenceville at the Potato Museum.  Believe me, this museum was close to the Spam Museum in Iowa (but not better than).  It traced the life of a potato from seedling to your table.  Did you know that the company right next door, McCain foods, provides 50% of the Northern American continent the french fries you get in restaurants?  HA!  You didn't know, did you?

We spent the night in Fredericton, NB (the capital) before moving to today to land at Moncton, NB.  On our way we stopped in the town of Sussex - the Mural Capital of North America.  They paint murals on the buildings around town and range any where from NB's history to a common cause.  The town or county is known for covered bridges.  You've heard of the Bridges of Madison County in Iowa or you should have if you follow my blog, since we were there.  Well this town has more and most of them you can actually drive through.  Some have their floors blacktopped and others have wooden roads.  Did you know that they are also called "kissing bridges"?  They are called that because during the days of buggies it took enough time to travel the darkened bridge that you could steal a kiss from your sweetie before you come out on the other side.  There is a rumor (that Karl and I tried) that if you make a wish then hold you breath and lift your feet off the car floor until you are on the other side, your wish will come true.  We'll see.