Tuesday, June 8, 2010

Today we drove to St. John and took in some of the local sites. Our first stop was the Loyalist House, built in 1810 by the Merritt family who were wealthy Loyalist from New York who fled to St. John during the Revolutionary War. The house is the oldest original house in St. John. Several pieces of furniture are very rare and valuable. The sewing table, in Duncan Phyfe style, was valued by the "Antiques Road Show" at $25,000 - $30,000. The 3/4 piano and organ is only one of two made and the other one is in a museum in Boston. The tour guide made this stop very informative and enjoyable. Mary and Al, it reminded us of the piano in your home.

We also visited the local Anglican (Episcopal) Church which was built in 1786. It was as beautiful on the inside as it was on the outside. We also visited the Old City Market, the Reversing Falls, the Ft. Howe block house and the local Jewish Museum. We ate lunch at Billy's Seafood Co. and had another sample of chowder and seafood.

I thought the Reversing Falls was over-rated unless you took the boat ride up the falls. The water flows in one direction during low tide and then in the opposite direction during high tide. During high tide, you go up the falls. Maybe I wasn't impressed because we were there sometime between low and high tides. We drove back to Seaside by late afternoon.

One thing that we love about RVing, is the wonderful people that we meet in campgrounds. This afternoon, we met a couple, John and Linda Dalling. They live in Sussex, NB, about 60 km away from St. Martins, but they have a 'seasonal' lot at the campground where we are staying. We visited for a long time and then decided to play 4 -handed cribbage tonight. The women won! (Connie wrote the last sentence this against my wishes.)