On Vacation!

We spent Wednesday night at a hotel in Northern New Brunswick. I can't believe the amount of snow that parts of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick still have! It's April, and the snow banks are over my head.


Tanya and Kristie wanted to go to Walmart the night we were in New Brunswick so I went along with them for something to do. They each bought a couple of things. At the check-out, Kristie went first and the lady started ringing her things through and put the first one in a plastic bag.

"I don't need a bag", Kristie said politely. We're all about saving the planet, people.

The lady looked at her, gave her a tight-lipped smile, put the second item in the bag and said "you can just use this until you get to your car then."

Um, what? Ah, NO.

Kristie looked her in the eyes and said again, "I don't need a bag." The lady's smile faded and she informed us that the greeter at the door would give us a hard time if our things were not in plastic bags.

"That's fine; I'll hold my receipt in my hand", Kristie said in a calm but determined tone of voice. She paid, picked up her purchases, and turned her back to the crabby cashier while her sister paid for her things.

"...I don't need a bag", Tanya said with a little smirk.

The cashier grasped a new tactic, and asked Tanya if she'd like to buy a re-usable bag. Tanya declined, stating that she already had some but had left them in the car.

The lady would not drop it. "We have policies, you know..." she said weakly.

Tanya told her it should be a customer's choice whether they needed a bag or not but the cashier snarked at us until we walked away - bag free, by the way.

The greeter at the door didn't pay the slightest attention to us.

We woke up the next morning to find that it had snowed again overnight. In April. The roads were still okay so we got going and drove west. Soon we were in Quebec - and as we all know, the French are amazing at making cheese, so we HAD to stop for fresh Cheese curds.

Mmm, squeaky.


Since we'd all done the Trans-Canada drive before we decided not to stop for any touristy things (besides the cheese) so we kept driving and got to Kingston, Ontario on day two.

The wedding is on Saturday. We are hoping it doesn't pour rain. Should be fun either way, though!