Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS)

Here are the lovely people we had the privilege of working with this past week.  It was such a pleasure to get to know everyone.  Pictures always turn out funny when five cameras are going at once - no one knows where to look!


This is one of the houses we worked on this week.  When we showed up on Monday, all that was complete were the pillars.  By the end of the week, the roof was up and windows and doors were being installed.  




Wednesday, November 14, 2012

World War II Memorial.  Each gold star represents ~1000 people who died in the war.  This is about 1/8th of the wall.  




It's still Autumn here and the trees are so gorgeous.  We have been chasing Autumn for the past two months.


Closest we could get to the White House.  I checked the Canadian Embassy website several times for tour opportunities, but they were not accepting applicants.  


We were super tourists today.  We took the MetroTrain to downtown Washington DC and walked around looking at Federal buildings, museums, and monuments for about 7 hours.  My legs hurt!  But we saw some pretty cool things.  The National Museum of Natural History was incredible.  We thought we would wander quickly through the exhibits, and ended up perusing for over 2.5 hours.  We even saw the Hope Diamond.  The National Mall is pretty incredible.  Definitely worth the one day trip!

Newfoundland and Labrador - Everyone must see this place!



We stayed at a B & B in PEI and they were beach combers.  They were always excited about finding blue sea glass.  




Most Easterly point in North America

Shout out to the Badger Family


A cold walk in Sydney, NS resulted in warming booze and interesting photos.  


Lobster, Lover's Lane, Lighthouses in PEI







This one is for Paul Muns.



PEI is shockingly beautiful.  The red soil, emerald grass, and sapphire sky too our breath away.  We could clearly understand where Lucy M. Montgomery drew her inspiration for the lovely Anne of Green Gables story.  Oh, and we ate Lobster for the first time.  It was rich and incredibly delicious.  Exactly what we were expecting on the east coast.  

NB - Highest Tides in the World!

         





Shediac, NB - World's Largest Lobster - we are such tourists


Our time in New Brunswick was brief.  We stayed with our first Mennonite Your Way hosts and saw the Hopewell Rocks.  It was more of a drive-through province to the other Atlantic Provinces.  However, it was beautiful and provided us with some sight-seeing.