Canada Halifax Mission trip: Day 5

CAPE BRETON

Well today was super interesting! We woke up and left our hotel room to go to the Miner's Museum in Glace Bay and it was really neat! At first, we spent a few minutes outside to look at some things by the sea and then once inside, we did an exhibit with pictures and artifacts about mining. We then heard like an hour long talk about mining from a cute miner and it was crazy to know that mining is still the most dangerous job out there! Poor people serioulsy. The mining owners were just so greedy, mean, and selfish. The miner's families were so poor, indebted to the owners, and I think they were basically legal slaves of some sort. Well we finally got inside the mine (don't worry, it's all safe and stuff now). We did have mining hats though and a poncho so we wouldn't get wet and dirty. We went inside the earth 65 feet I think and it was cool! We had to bend our backs though as the space was only about 4 feet tall in some places. Blaine had to sit down on the ground because he couldn't bend that much anymore! They talked about how with a canary bird they check the toxicity of the mine, they have like 20 minutes for lunch, there is a garden down there for good luck and cheer, and it was just hard work! Great pictures.

Then we made our way to the causeway and went to start the world famous Cabot Trail! Sounds awesome huh? lol Well it was but there were a lot of walls of trees for many miles....we did the whole thing in like 5 hours. There were spots where you saw lakes, mountains, valleys, beach, ocean, and pretty stuff. There were also a ton of cute shops but we only stopped at this leather shop that was extremely and sadly expensive but everything was made by hand and so cute! JOni and I even made this little braid bracelet and I got to keep it.

Well our roadtrip was made even more awesome by the fact that we saw a bear! A black bear cub and so cute! It was eating berries or something and it didnt seem that scared. We took a ton of pics and kept driving until we found dinner! DELICIOUS steak that I ate ALL of it. Perfection. So by that Chitticamp place, the gas station was closed already and the gas light was on! Well we knew we could make it a few more miles and slowly we drove to Beddeck...where their gas stations were also closed! They close at like 4....dumb. We thought we had to sleep in the car. We even tried 3 different credit/debit cards and since it was closed, we think that they didn't take them. Plus, CANADA loves Master Card and we didn't have any so we had issues! But luckily we could like coast to a hotel and stayed there. Whew! It was nice to have a bed haha