So, for my birthday this year we took a trip to Trinity and Bonavista, Newfoundland. It was a really nice trip and we got to see some pretty stunning views and meet some great folks.
We left on Thursday, Oct 22 after work and drove to Trinity that night. It was pretty tough to find it, but we got there eventually. We took a couple wrong turns and missed our chance at McDonalds :( So, we ate at the Bed and Breakfast we were staying at. Luckily they were still open and we had a yummy dinner there.
The place we stayed was called the "Eriksen Premises" and was this cute B&B in the middle of town. The town was so small! The people who ran the B&B mentioned that during the winter there are only about 30 people who live there. However, the summer brings lot of tourism as they have a great theatre there.
We finished our dinner around 9:30, and went to our room. The rest of the town was just completely dead. It was really eery and so quiet and dark.
The next morning we walked around Trinity a little bit and took some pictures. It is such a photogenic little town. Here are a few of the pics we took in the morning.
After wandering around Trinity for a bit, it started raining so we drove to Bonavista, which was about 45 minutes away. We were on the hunt for icebergs since we saw on the icebergfinder website that there were a few just off the coast. We were not disappointed! WOW!! The icebergs were absolutely fabulous. The first two we saw were further away and we tried to get closer. We parked our car and made our way through some trails to the edge of the land closest to the icebergs. When I was walking along, I came across a bunch of goats! They were really cute and all so different. I yelled a little when I first saw them because they scared me, which scared them away, but then I stood still enough that they stopped running away and we got some cool pictures with them.
The next iceberg was closer to shore and we got some pictures with us and the icerberg in the background.
Bonavista Bay is also where John Cabot initially landed in Newfoundland. Here is the statue they had in the bay that had the icerbergs. He landed a REALLY long time ago!
We went to this place called "The Dungeon" and it was this really neat rock formation. This is a picture of Jordan running around it. I don't really know how this happened over time, but it is a pretty spectacular thing.
The last iceberg was actually pretty small but it was right next to the land and it was shaped in an amazing way. We think it looks like a mother holding a baby. But, seriously, how does this shape happen??
Another thing we noticed in Bonavista was that everyone had these HUGE piles of logs around their house. I guess the electricity isn't as reliable, or they all have woodburning furnaces in their homes. Anyway, here is a picture of one. Pretty impressive, right? I wonder how long it takes to make these stacks.
After Bonavista, we drove back to Trinity for our dinner reservation. We ate at a place called the Artisan Inn. I had orange carrot soup, pecan crusted salmon with potatoes, spinach salad, and an amazing partridgeberry bread pudding. Jordan had tomato basil soup, lamb shank, spinach salad, and the same bread pudding. They had these fun candles on the tables... :)
After dinner we went to the "Rising Tide Theatre" where we saw a play about a couple in the 1920s. There were only two actors (boy and girl who end up together at the end after a lot of arguing) and there were only about 16 people in the audience. We had front row seats and we were only about 10 feet from the actors in some parts. It was really good though, and they did a great job weaving in Newfoundland history into the whole thing.
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