Pizza Egg Iguana

The lighthouse used in the TV series of Anne of Green Gables, Sea cow head lighthouse

A childhood dream of mine was fulfilled in the past week... I got to visit PEI and both Chris and I had a wonderful time.
We arrived to fantastic weather which continued until the weekend when we got the tail end of the hurricane. But despite what the locals thought - us from 'away' found that the weather was similar to the summers we usually get at home, so you still go to places and have ice-cream even if it's raining outside.

Poor Chris has to endure so many 'Anne' things and he did so without much grumbling! Ok, he only grumbled when I got the directions wrong! The highlight of the trip was in the Avonlea village with Chris dressing up as Anne, but I won't put that image up unless people really want to see it! Here we are dressed as Matthew and Anne - that was bad enough!!!

At the weekend, Chris and I went to the theatre and saw the production of Anne & Gilbert which was really good. Some good 'laugh out loud' lines and lots of songs to keep singing in your head! We had the 'cheap seats' so the two seats, on their own were at the back in front of the sound booth and ended up being beside where some of the actors had to perform! That was fun.

So anyway, back to the catch-up. Our couch surfing hosts from Long Beach used to live on PEI, so they gave us lots of contacts of people to meet and places to see, so we got to meet a number of their friends - and were taken out for some really lovely meals. The Christmas card list is getting longer and longer every place we stay!

Despite the rain, we got to see where LM Montgomery was born, the sign of where she lived (it's supposedly a hole in the ground) and here grave! We also had an extremely rushed trip to Green Gables and some of the locations which inspired her writings.

At the 'Green Gables' house used for location shots in the TV series

We had some great couch surfing hosts on the island - one couple were in their first year venturing into Organic farming, so we were able to help them prepare their produce for market and the other lady we stayed with had returned to the Island and had a great home just 7 miles from all the Anne things.

Chris and I with our host Ruth

So... finally to the title of the blog... Pizza Egg Iguana. One of the entertainers at the Avonlea Village was saying to the children about when they are asked by their friends or teacher as to where they went on holiday, say it was a secret or use a code... so PEI isn't Prince Edward Island as we know it to have been...!!! It was very entertaining, but I suppose you had to be there!

Being entertained at the Children's show!

We have been very fortunate whilst on the island to meet some of the lovely locals - even if some of them weren't born they have offered us an insight into island life and we have seen places we would have otherwise not had the opportunity to see . The island is what I hoped it would be... even though many of the images I relate to from the TV series of Anne of Green Gables etc are still to be seen - they're all in Toronto direction, the beauty of PEI is striking. Somewhere I will certainly be returning to one day.