Tuesday, July 28th - Dear Mother Nature - can we please have summer back?

It's been cool and damp for most of the past week, and this week's not looking much better. We should see some more warmer weather next week - let's hope so.

With the rain and cooler temperatures it's hard to get outside and get anything done. Our grass is needing to be cut again, but it seems like there's limited time between showers, and when it does stop raining, everything is all wet. Hopefully we can get to it soon.

Of course, we could have gotten to the grass on Sunday, however, we took the day off and made a bit of a break away.

I'd gone online last week and discovered that there is a Maritime Miata Club based out of Nova Scotia and they had a run planned for this past Sunday. After several emails back and forth, we decided we'd give it a go. They were starting near the Halifax airport and coming up to Truro way and stopping for coffee  at Tim's in Bible Hill. So our plan was to leave here at 7:00 and met up with them at Tim's.

We stopped in town and picked up coffee and muffins before hitting the road. It was overcast but mild and dry so we put the top down as we journeyed on. We were just about at the bridge when it started to rain so we quickly pulled over and put the top up. It poured rain for a while until we stopped on the other side in Aulac. It had stopped raining so we put the top back down. Unfortunately we were only a short ways down the highway when it started raining again. This time it poured for quite some distance. We really hoped it didn't continue like that for the rest of the day and fortunately, it didn't. It finally stopped (or we drove out of it) and we had dry weather the rest of the way. The others all had the tops down when they arrived and they hadn't seen any rain so that was a good sign.

What a sight to see all these Miata's coming down the road

There are approximately 50 cars in the club but only 12 were out this trip. We discovered that most of the members are of a certain demographic - our age.

After  coffee and introductions, we hit the road. We traveled all secondary highways and wound our way up to Tatamagouche for lunch at a restaurant called Big Al's, where we had a reservation in their special events room, as there were at least 25 of us.

At the restaurant we all put the tops up in case it rained

Lloyd makes friends with EVERYONE!

We met some really nice people and had a great time getting to know some of the members.

Then it was back on the road as we wound our way through Wentworth Valley before ending our drive at Masstown Market. What a busy spot that was!  We parked and spent a bit of time chatting before everyone went their separate ways.

We headed east and arrived at the ferry just ten minutes before departure. We were the last car to go on before they started loading the campers. Talk about good timing.

We had a pleasant ride on the boat and then home to cook up the fish we'd bought at the Masstown Market fish store. It was a really great day and some quality time together - something we don't get to do very often.