Well, today we did the Cavendish attractions and went to Charlottetown to try and get our GPS fixed or by a new one.
We started out early and arrived at the Green Gables. After we had bought our tickets we looked to the parking lot and saw 4 tour buses park and let of their passengers. We hurried with another couple to the barn and then to the gardens and the house. We were fortunate that we kept a few steps ahead of the mad rush and got the pictures we wanted. The gift shop was my next stop while Walt tried the lovers lane and the haunted woods. He found out after walking a little while that it would take 48 minutes, so he gave up and met me at the gift shop. I believe half of the people from the bus went straight to the gift shop and never went through the exhibit. They were definitely on a mission and they had 4 registers going as fast as possible.
We then went to a few more exhibits about Anne of Green Gables, but it was not as good as we had expected the exhibit to be. It definitely draws people to the area.
It had rained most of the morning so we went back to the RV and warmed up and dried off. We also ate lunch before we went to Charlottetown.
We checked on the internet for the stores which dealt with Garmin GPS”s. We found 3 stores in the town. Two of them were the Canadian Tire Company. When we got to the store the little clerk was very frank and said this is an antique: that is, our old GPS. Well, it was only 5 years old and very expensive and Walt had got so accustomed to it that it was hard for him to follow my instructions while I was reading the map. When he gets stressed so do I. When the clerk checked with her manager he said there was nothing he could do with it. He said it was dead. Then we asked if they carried Garmin’s and so she showed us some, but encouraged us to go to a store called “Future”. She even took us to the door and showed us were the store was and were the GPS was located in the store. The store was a very large electronic store and we got immediate assistance. After checking all of the GPS’s out we decided on a Garmin at one fifth the cost of our first Garmin. The big catch was that they had sold out of the one we wanted and it would be in the store by the next day. After all of this we said we would be back in the store tomorrow.
The area we were in was a crowded area with construction so we left that area and drove to the harbor area. We drove through it and started for home because it was rush hour by this time and we wanted to get out of the city.
We arrived home safely and prepared for another day in the morning.
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