Avonlea

One of the many drama presentations throughout the day. This is Anne, Diana (in blue dress), Miss Stacey (black hat), Gilbert (standing) and the nasty girl (I've forgotten her name) doing the school concert.

Anne, aka Catherine at the railway station.

In the dressing up house. The girls really loved this. I got Matthew to dress up too but he was too interested in the old fashioned typewriter to pose for a picture.

Well, a visit to PEI would be incomplete without visiting one of the Anne of Green Gables sites. We chose Avonlea primarily because it involved the whole book and someone told us about the dressing up part. It really was great. We arrived at 9am (an early start for us) in time to see the first drama sketch of Anne arriving at the train station. Throughout the day there were other sketches from the book....like Anne losing her temper and her apology to Mrs. Rachel Lind, smashing the slate over Gilbert's head when he calls her Carrots and the Tea Party with Diana. The sketches were very funny and then throughout the day there were extras like oyster eating and square dancing. There was pony rides and wagon rides and kittens and goats to pet. The day ended with a Country Fair with old fashioned games for the kids (egg and spoon, manure tossing and sack race). Jenna, Catherine and I really loved it. Rachel and Matthew enjoyed it too but Richard spent a good part of the day in the hammock in the picnic area.