Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada - June 20 - June 21, 2015

Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada - June 20 - June 21, 2015

June 20, 2015

This morning we left St. Andrews By-The-Bay, NB heading to St. John, New Brunswick.  That is a total of a whole 73 miles.  It took about 2 hours by the time we got lost and had to go around town to get back to the park.  Thank goodness for GPS.

We arrived at our park at about 11:15. We had time to get settled and take the cats for a walk.  We are having some power issues – since there is only 30 amp power.   We are luckier than one of the other rigs.  They are a fifth wheel that had some major problems on the road – they still have not arrived at the park.

Our first activity was a Saint John City Bus Tour at 1:45 pm.   First, we went to the Historic Old City Market.  This market is a bit like the Pike Place Market at home.  When we first go into the market, there is a young boy that was selling Beef Jerky – for $10 a bag no less.   But he was such a salesman (telling us the best place to get a great picture of the market) that we went back and bought a bag.   Actually, it is pretty good jerky.



 

After the market Ken, the driver, took us around St. John to show us Reversing Falls, Fort Howe, and many homes in the area.  We may have to go back tomorrow to get more pictures.   The architecture is so old and cool back here.

We got back to the coach and now we have time off until dinner tomorrow. 

June 21, 2015

Rain, rain, go away.  It has been pouring down rain part of the night and ALL day.  We stepped out of the RV on the rug and found that it was floating on about 2 – 3 inches of water.

The rug floating in the water

Luckily, we don’t have any official plans for today.  The Optional Boat Ride was cancelled – just as well, we are wet enough.

We played lazy for the first part of the day, the ventured out for a little shopping at our favorite store, Costco.  We found a lot of the items the same, but many different in the area.  The one thing that was different was that they do not take American Express (even the Costco Am Ex) or Visa.  They only take Master Card, which we don’t have.  Luckily, we had old fashioned CASH. 

From there we went on the grocery store.  We shopped at Sobeys.  A very nice store.  Again, it was fun to see the different brands and types of foods here in Canada.  One thing that we were looking for was oyster crackers for the Clam Chowder feed tomorrow.  Unfortunately, they don’t have them up here.  I guess Saltine Crackers will have to do.

We slogged back to the rig – after using two GPS’s to get us there. 

Dinner was hosted by Fantasy at the Lily Lake Pavilion.  It was a nice time and good food.  It is nice to have dinner with other tour members, to get to know them better.