Did you know, there is no Boxing Day shopping at all in the Maritimes!!!
Nothing. Zilch. Nadda.*
Nothing. Zilch. Nadda.*
One has no option but to spend one's boxing day sipping endless
cups of tea and making polite conversation with one's host ..
or go tramping through the woods!
cups of tea and making polite conversation with one's host ..
or go tramping through the woods!
View of Echo Lake from the McDonald family's backyard.
And as you can see, it was indeed a white Christmas!
(*though we did see one Tim Horton's and one MacDonald's drive through
that were open. Not the restaurant proper; just the drive through's.)
