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From Sea to Sea The Brandt Family Adventure of 2007

From Sea to Sea The Brandt Family Adventure of 2007. We departed Abbotsford, BC on July 8. And spent the first night in Revelstoke , BC. We relaxed at Emerald Lake…. and got chilled by the mist of Takkakaw Falls in Yoho National Park. We drove a lot of boring miles

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From Sea to Sea The Brandt Family Adventure of 2007

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  1. From Sea to Sea The Brandt Family Adventure of 2007

  2. We departed Abbotsford, BC on July 8 And spent the first night in Revelstoke, BC

  3. We relaxed at Emerald Lake…

  4. and got chilled by the mist of Takkakaw Falls in Yoho National Park

  5. We drove a lot of boring miles but wined and dined in style with friends in Alberta…

  6. and Saskatchewan

  7. …and entertained ourselves at rest stops

  8. To celebrate a 60th wedding anniversary in Manitoba We worshiped God We rode a zip-line into a pond And a stunt plane into the sky And lit up fireworks into the night

  9. On a long drive through northern Ontario

  10. We were awed by Kakabeka (Iced Tea) Falls • We stopped at the Terry Fox memorial at sunrise

  11. We played Frisbee on the most Superior beach in the afternoon And lost a most valuable item in the evening But miraculously an angel sent it to us the next day

  12. We went up the peace tower

  13. and down the Ottawa River

  14. And saw the Prime Minister’s house And spent a night in the Carlton County Jail in Ottawa

  15. We got blown out of our room and rained out of our walk in old Quebec City

  16. But we ate French Fries in Florenceville

  17. And kissed on the world’s longest covered bridge in Hartford, New Brunswick

  18. We met the locals in Parrsboro, Nova Scotia On the beaches of Fundy at low tide they taught us to dig and eat clams [they taste like chicken]

  19. We hiked Partridge Island…

  20. and saw strange geological formations at Wasson Bluffs

  21. And witnessed a tidal bore in Maccan

  22. We made an amazing red sand castle in PEI

  23. And learned how to eat lobster from a local expert

  24. On the way back we ate Ganong chocolate right from the factory and crossed the border in St. Stephen, NB

  25. We drove through 5 states in one day

  26. And the next day got soaked under Niagara Falls

  27. We danced to jazz on Queen Street in Toronto

  28. And rode a glass elevator up world’s tallest building

  29. We saw Shakespeare and an Ideal Husband in Stratford [both don’t exist anymore] And we hung out with friends [who do exist]

  30. We walked through a hole in the rock in Elora Gorge

  31. And swam in Lake Huron with old friends

  32. We drove through Chicago and Minneapolis in the same night that the bridge collapsed [but not under us]

  33. We pitched hay on a hot day in southern Manitoba And then swam in a pool And we appreciated our extended families

  34. We played football…

  35. and miraculously found a ring on the beach in Stephenfield Park

  36. And hiked a shale canyon in Pembina Valley And swatted mosquitoes

  37. For our 22nd anniversary we had a king-size bed in a grand old farm house

  38. But there were 23 extended family members in there with us [the house that is] And we laughed a lot

  39. And played in the dunes of the Spirit Sands in Spruce Woods Park

  40. We drove 14, 746 km which means we spent more than 150 hours locked in a tin can on wheels with the same 6 people the whole time!

  41. To bust the occasional boredom we listened to the Chronicles of Narnia radio theatre And read a few dozen books And wrote in our journals And watched Ice Age ten times And bothered and teased each other occasionally And fought over directions occasionally

  42. But most of all we made a lot of great memories, cultivated a wealth of relationships with people across the country and grew to love each other more as a family.

  43. We arrived back home on August 14

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