Gadding About in Cape Breton With My Longtime Friends (75 year friendship).

Arriving in Cape Breton Island. 

This is a continuation of my last post.  We did so many things on this trip to Nova Scotia I couldn't cover it all in one post.  Late on Wednesday we arrived at the house, and very soon after our arrival had a nice visit from friends Catherine and Michealette.

Up early on Thursday to head to Sydney via St. Peter's stopping at the post office in West Bay to see Linda, friend and post mistress. St. Peter's is a pretty little town and a trip there always means a visit with my friend Frances.  In Sydney we visited down at the waterfront where there is a giant fiddle that welcomes visitors.

In front of the Giant Fiddle in Sydney.  

We returned to the house via The Cedar House where we ate a late lunch and stocked up on their wonderful baked items: bread, oatmeal raisin cookies, Aussie cookies, oat cakes and blueberry pie.  They were out of strawberry rhubarb pies, my favorite.

Friday we were up early and made our way over to Cheticamp and drove up the Cabot Trail as far as The Bog where Pat W. and I hiked out over the wooden walkway suspended on the bog.

The Bog along the Cabot Trail. 

In the afternoon we headed back down south to Inverness and the Cabot Links Golf Course.   The Panorama Restaurant that overlooks the 18th hole at the Golf Course is a favorite place to have dinner.  We arrived a few minutes before Panorama was open, but I very nice gentleman took us up to the back in his golf cart where we could enter the Restaurant without climbing the steep stairs.  He let us in and we each ordered a dessert to have while enjoying the beautiful view.  The gentleman turned out to be the Assistant Manager of the Food Services and when he learned that we were celebrating the year we all turned 81 he brought us champagne on the house.  And after our desserts he took us down to our car in his golf cart.  What hospitality!!!!

Our ride to the Panorama to avoid the stairs.  Great hospitality. 

Here's to our 81st year. 

Cookies and ice cream. 

Looking out over the 18th Hole. 

On Saturday we went over to Iona to visit the reconstructed Highland Village.  The church that is there was moved by water from Malagawatch. 

The pulpit of the church.  

Sunday we just stayed around the house, slept late and enjoyed the beautiful view.

The house.  

Our neighbor Patt Up (I'm Patti Down) had beautiful flowers planted in our window boxes.  

Before we left for Halifax I made one last breakfast where we enjoyed the cinnamon buns from the Cedar House Bakery and frozen wild blueberries with banana slices.

Cinnamon buds from the Cedar House Bakery 

Bread Run to the Cedar House Bakery

To us a "bread run" is a drive over to the Cedar House Bakery in Boularderie Center to replenish our supply of bread and other baked goods. It's about an hour and a half from here--over past Orangedale to the Transcanada Highway, past Baddeck, over Kelly's Mountain, over the Seal Island Bridge and there it is on the right.

The Cedar House Bakery.

Very cozy interior of Cedar House Bakery.

Before we lay in our supply of baked goods we have breakfast.  I usually have raisin toast, a fish cake and a piece of pie, (yes, a piece of pie for breakfast---really more like brunch) and this trip was no exception.

Their in house, home made fish cakes are famous.

Butterscotch pie.

On a full stomach, I can now choose the baked goods to take home. So much to choose from:
scones, tea biscuits, bread, cookies, pies, cakes, cinnamon rolls......

Lots of goodies from which to choose.

Cinnamon rolls.

Tea biscuits.

We always take home a strawberry/rhubarb pie.

Strawberry/rhubarb pie

A slice of "heaven".

And raisin bread for toast.

Raisin bread chock full of raisins.

Makes wonderful toast.

Lots of whole wheat bread which freezes beautifully.

One raisin loaf, eight whole wheat loaves (one for a neighbor).

We have enough baked goods for the next few weeks when we'll be having company, and then it'll be time to make another bread run to the Cedar House Bakery.