History of Nova Scotia

The past few weeks, Sally, Ruby and I have been trying to get out and do things. We have been to the Interpretive Centre twice to listen to the live music (which Sally calls Magic!) And today, we went to the Highland Villiage Museum. It was super cool.

We made a day of it. My Girls, Dena, her sister Catherine and Sallys cousin Brooklyn. It was a girls day out to explore our heritage and spend the day in the beautiful sunshine. It was warm enough that you got hot when walking around, but the lovely breeze cooled you off and made it delightful. The girls ran around in the fields and loved walking through the houses. We saw grins on everyone's faces and joy with being together. A magic day. 

The village had characters in each of the buildings and they spoke Gaelic to you and then English. It was like walking through time, with the first house an example of what the people would have lived in in 1700 Scotland. They spoke of coming over on a boat - which would have taken them 6 - 12 weeks, yikes. There were houses original to the area that had been renovated and put back to as close to original as possible. There was a barn with sleighs and carriages, a small dairy and woodshed with in. Animals and gardens were all over. There was also the Malagawatch church which was brought across a lake by a barge. We have a storybook, the Malagawatch Mice, about the church moving. It was cool to finally see the church.

We stopped at a local restaurant that was converted from a church into a resturant on our way home for lunch. They had about 8 Vintage 50s dining tables (that were stunning). We all had some food, the girls were surprised by one of the servers making them each an origami animal - what a delightful switch to offering kids candy. We slowly made our way closer to home by hitting up Farmers Daughter, a bakery/ice cream shop/store/Christmas store. It's a hodge podge of interesting nicknacks, homemade delights and local wears. They had a small park just beside the store so Sally and Brooklyn played some more as we had a tea before heading home. 

A delightful way to spend a day. I am glad that we got to go this year. There was construction so they are letting people go for free which was a delightful surprise. They are building a new welcome building which should be open next year. I hope we can visit it again as we were told that they cut back on the actors A LOT this year - here is hoping next year will be even better.