Anne Fulfilled

Thursday, July 24th  

It was a rainy day today, good opportunity to drive around a little and see some of the beautiful sights along the way.


We visited the birth place of L.M. Montgomery and the Anne of Green Gables Museum.

The museum is the home of Montgomery's cousins, with whom she was very close.  Very cool history.

Best part was meeting the great granddaughter of her cousin who actually lives in the house. For us, finding an actual relative of the author was a little like meeting royalty. 

We ended the day with a concert by our now favorite Irish Folk Song Musician, Michael Pendegrast. Luckily he was not creeped out by our stalking him, and gave us all a proper goodbye hug at the end of the concert!

Our favorite song of his is "Belly Rubber".  He wrote this song about a women at a concert one time that asked him to sing a Belly Rubber.

Come to find out she wanted a waltz so she could rub bellies with her husband. So he played the waltz and they danced beautifully around the floor. She died a few weeks after that and her husband followed shortly after. The song goes on to say that now they are together forever in heaven "rubbing bellies/waltzing." As he finished this song, we discovered we were all in tears.  It was too hard not to think of Mom and Dad and the two of them waltzing together in heaven.

So far, we have closed down the establishments we have enjoyed at the end of each day:  Blue Mussel Cafe, St. Ann's, and the Stanley Bridge Community Center.  As luck would have it, things close down pretty early here on the island, so we are still home before 11:00 PM. 

Friday, July 25th

Today we said goodbye to Prince Edward Island.

We have had three fun-filled days and are feeling quite "Anne" fulfilled.  The four of us have all met Anne (read her books) at different points in our life. For some, it is pretty recent, for others it has been a long history.  

I (Marianne) have dreamed of visiting the birth place of my beloved "Anne" since I first met her in sixth grade. I am so grateful that I have been able to enjoy this lifelong dream with my fabulous sisters.