We called up our friends, the Wentzells, at the last minute and invited them to join us for lunch in Lunenburg. Not only were they available for lunch, they took most of the afternoon and we spent it together, eating lunch, and sight seeing --- it was a "fabulous" day ---- so grateful for these good people!
We took a horse drawn carriage ride to tour the town and learn a little about its history.
So much fun!This whole town has been designated an historic site, and we thoroughly enjoyed going around and looking at the homes dating back into the early 1800's.
The trim on this house (called gingerbread trim) would have been expense to do, so we know that the owners were well off in their day.
This home has a "Widow's Walk" on the top, a railed off area where the wives of seafaring men would go to watch for the ships coming back into port.
If their men did not disembark from the ship, they knew that their husband had died at sea and that they were now widow's!!
The homes are painted different colors and it is great to drive up and down the streets, just looking around.
This sign says the home was built in the 1800's.
You can imagine the time it would take to paint these...
It is like a huge, real life "Heritage Park" except that people are still living and working here.
Look at this view, down the hilly street towards the harbour.
I particularly love this building, "The Academy". 
It reminds me of a building from "Harry Potter" or something! It used to be a school for grades 1-12, and my friend, Melissa O'Connor went here as a girl! They are currently doing some restoration work, and moving the public library to the second floor. There is a wonderful ancient graveyard right next to it that we drove through, Saw headstones dating back to the early 1800's --- you know our fascination with graveyards! They just have an appeal.
No thanks to that nasty bug that bit me while I was looking around and caused a loonie size sore on my arm to swell up----the little nipper!!
There are several old churches in town. We were told that all of the stained glass would have been brought over by ship in barrels of molasses, to keep the glass from breaking, so only rich families could afford stained glass.
Jim Aullenbach is the organist at this church --- we know his family and we hear that he is an amazing musician, but we did not get to hear him this time around! Maybe next time!
A beautiful painting on a city building....
.... and lots of tourist type places to eat and shop. Tourism is big here, but the place still manages to keep a small town and friendly appeal that draws us back.
The view of Lunenburg from the golf course
across the harbour.
There was a rowing competition on between the U. S. and Canada ---we don't now how many times they went back and forth across the harbour, nor who finally won as we got hungry and left! Not much stamina on our end I guess!
The magnificent Blue Nose two was in dock and we got to walk on board and look around. It was built after the original famous racing schooner, the Blue Nose one, which won every race she entered for about 18 years ---I believe her picture is on the dime.
We stopped and talked to one of the young ladies who lived and worked onboard and she admitted that she still got seasick when they left port and hit the open seas, but she still preferred to work here than anywhere else!
This is a picture of the Blue Nose sailing in harbour later in the day --- see the fog rolling in ---- I can smell the sea, just looking at this picture again!
We decided to take a drive down to Blue Rock, a small town about ten minutes north of Lunenburg.
The waves, the rocks, the boats ----- there is no place that compares to this. The Maritimes truly has an appeal all its own.
Some very lucky people get to live here all of the time --- all though I hear it gets a bit windy by the sea in the winter! Still, wouldn't the summers be grand!
This could be us!!
We loved our day trip to Old Lunenburg ----- it was a wonderful day, friends, sunshine, scenery like no other, and ice cream to end the day!
Feeling grateful for this day that God gave us, to appreciate the beauty of the Maritimes, to relax and laugh and enjoy being together --- it was a wonderful day!
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