Here I am on Sunday morning writing a blog I was supposed to write on Friday…this just shows how much time us Shads have on a regular day. However, I wouldn’t say that Friday was an average day; it was more along the lines of the best day of my life!
If you ignore the fact that we had to wake up at seven in the morning to pile ourselves onto a bus, the rest of the day was pretty great! Forty-nine Dalhousie Shads loaded the ferry that would take us across the Northumberland Strait to spend the night camping in Prince Edward Island. While we were on the ferry, we passed the time by singing songs at the top of our lungs and taking jumping pictures (well that lasted until the people below us on the boat thought that there was thunder and lightning).
Once we departed the ferry, we were let loose in downtown Charlottetown where there was plenty of cow statues to climb, stores to shop in and hardly any restaurants to find lunch. After those few hours of “free time” we gathered at the Province House where we had a tour of the building. We saw chairs where John A. MacDonald sat and watched a short film about the history of the house.
Once that was completed, we loaded the bus again and drove to a beautiful beach where we constructed “Shad City” out of the sand. After hours of hard work, we had a beautiful sand city which we destroyed shortly after finishing.
And nothing beats ending a day watching a sunset on the beach and roasting marshmallows around a campfire.
Katie Cunningham, Shad Valley Dalhousie 2011
Hometown: Fredericton, NB
