The main purpose of our family trip to Newfoundland this year was to visit Burgeo, the birth place of my paternal grandfather! We still have lots of family living here and since my parents haven't been back to visit in over 30 years it was walk down memory lane. In 2011 Shawn and I came to Burgeo with our cousin Linda (now from Corner Brook) to meet up with my Great Uncle Dan (my Gramp's brother) and Aunt Betty. We returned to see them, now married and with the Turkettes! What a difference 2 years can make!
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| Outside Uncle Dan and Aunt Betty's House |
We had a wonderful time catching up with our family and as always we had great homemade food from Aunt Betty. The girls really took to them and enjoyed all of Uncle Dan's funny faces.
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| Inside Aunt Betty and Uncle Dan's House |
The timing of our visit was planned to coincide with the annual Sand and Sea Festival that takes place the last weekend of July each year. It was a great opportunity to meet a lot of people and sample some fantastic food. We had great breakfasts, a fish fry, a roast beef dinner and an amazing pot luck dinner put on by Aunt Betty's church. The entire time the girls stole the show! After just a few short days, most people in town had met or seen the girls at one of the community events.
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| Aunt Betty, Cousins Don, Budd, Linda, Uncle Dan and our clan! |
Their Burgeo popularity hit an all-time high when our family was screeched in during the Community-wide celebrated Screech-In Ceremony. Altogether there was 20 people screeched-in! The girls got off easy by only having to kiss the cod. The rest of us had to dip our foot in a bucket of Atlantic Ocean water, sing a song (each individual sang a verse solo....my worst nightmare), eat some salted cod, attempt to eat some rock solid bread, drank a shot of screech and kissed a cod! Meanwhile, Captain Anne who was conducting the ceremony mocked as many of us as she could in front of a local crowd of 200+ people!
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| Screeched In! |
Even though we pushed our luck and had the girls up over an hour past their usual bedtime, they were fantastic and managed to make it through the entire ceremony with smiles on their faces. From this point on, to the people of Burgeo, we were known as the parents of the twins. "Oh, you're with the twins!" people would say upon meeting us! Funny, we thought they came with us!
Our last big adventure in Burgeo was to visit Sandbanks Provincial Park. If you didn't put your foot in the cold water, the white sand would make you think you were in the Caribbean! We completed an 8km hike around the park to see different beaches and parts of the ocean. The girls almost made it but grew tired about half way through and had to take a nap!
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| Awesome beaches! |
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| Great Look-outs! |
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| Sleeping beauties! |
The trip was to Burgeo was fantastic. My Dad even had an opportunity to spend some time in the Burgeo Museum to look up some family history! Here we are now pictured inside the museum with the girls sporting an Ugly Stick!
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| Burgeo Museum |
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