CV - Saint John, New Brunswick

The last night in Acadia it rained like crazy, and sadly after a few hours our otherwise awesome tent started to leak from the seams. The rain stopped long enough for us to pack up, and nothing really got all that wet inside, but we were happy to stay in a real bed the next night.

We drove up to Saint John in Canada, and made our first couchsurfing stop with Andrew and Jeff. If you ever want to visit New Brunswick, look them up, they were the best hosts. Not only did they take us on a great hike (where we may or may not have run them a bit ragged with our New Yorker pace, but they were too gracious to ever admit it), but they even took us shopping for a tarp to protect our tent from the rain.

Best of all, they gifted us with music, songs of the Maritimes that we listened to while we drove. We had brought lots of music with us on the iPod, but the only thing we actually listened to was the Anne of Green Gables musical, but more on that later. I hadn't realized how much Irish and Celtic influence and history there was to the Maritimes, but we loved all the Irish jigs and fiddles and literally sang our way across Canada.

They took us to a great little pub, where David had a "rich man's fish and chips", which was made from salmon. He still hasn't stopped talking about that. Then they took us candy bar shopping. For some reason they have all the candy bars we have here in America, but then they have all these other weird ones. My favorite was called a Wonderbar, or something. Peanut buttery deliciousness, and I am hardly a candy bar kind of person.

Couchsurfing, we love you. Seriously, everyone should do it, it is the best thing ever.