Annapolis Valley, St. John and St. Andrews

Well, we finally left Halifax, none too soon for Richard who was getting ichy feet after 7days. We have arrived safely in St. John. If you accidently say St. John's (as in capital of Newfoundland) they will correct you.
Our last 2 days in Halifax were very fun. On Saturday we headed up to the Annapolis Valley. It was so beautiful! We first went to Grand Pre which is a Historical Site detailing the expulsion of the French Acadians from the valley in 1775. Thousands of Acadians were shipped south to the Louisiana area as well as England and France. The reason they were told to leave is because they would not sign an oath of allegience to the English king. There is very famous poem by Longfellow called 'Evangeline' which portrays a young Acadian boy and girl who were to be married but became seperated and sent out on different ships. Evangeline searches her whole life for Gabriel and only finds him in old age, dying in a hospital. On the site is a beautiful stone church and a bronze statue of 'Evangeline'. We had a picnic and then set off to find an orchard.
The kids said that they wanted to pick apples so we stopped at an orchard and picked a 10lb bag of apples and pears. Now they can have an apple or pear whenever they want to. We drove through beautiful little towns full of old houses with big porches and gables. It was all so pretty, we felt we could easily live there if it wasn't clear across Canada.
On Sunday we went back to the CRC in Halifax. There was another family from BC there! It was Elna's (we had dinner at her house last Monday) sister and her family (6 kids) who are doing what we are doing. We spent the afternoon together on a sailboat in the Halifax harbour. We saw the guns that protected the harbour during the First and Second World War. The ships would wait in the Bedford Basin and then go in convoy across the Atlantic in the war. The kids were entertained setting the sails, tying knots and learning about the boat. It was a fun day and we hope to meet up with the Van Woerdens again. Trivia: Halifax has the world's second largest natural harbour.
It has become noticably cooler lately. The sun is still shining but the nights are getting quite cold.
We stayed for 2 nights in St. John. Yesterday we drove up the coast to the Fundy Trail. We decided not to go in because it cost money and we were tired and just wanted to sit on a beach for a while. We found one by the town of St. Martins that was very rocky and we spent and hour or so looking for pretty rocks and playing in the water. We were overlooking an area of sea caves as well but we couldn't go over there because the tide was in.
We drove for a hour today down the coast to a small town called St. Andrews. We are once again camped right on the beach and it is beautiful and warm. The excitement for this afternoon is a disaster drill taking place in the harbour right in front of us. There are helicopters and huge planes as well as the Coast Guard boats.