Last day in l'anse aux Meadows

June 10

More fecking rain, howling winds and 3C. If it had been up to me, I’d have Leif Erickson keep the place! Parks Canada did an excellent job of recreating some Viking structures, and in fact it was quite interesting. A shame it was just too miserable for us to want to hike. Did get some great pics of smaller icebergs. Big ones promised for Twillingate! Still, shake our heads in wonderment about the really remote fishing outports—tough people. We kept getting tips from the locals to go to a variety show in Saint Lunaire- Griquet as it was going to be a lot of fun. It was indeed a lot of fun, yet pretty hokey—mostly locals and a few Come from Aways in attendance. We had a good time, and the local musicians were, surprisingly, quite good. It was at an old school purchased by an enterprising couple (female Newfie and male transplanted Brit) who have made it into a for-profit activity centre – good on them.

The last part of the evening (over around 9 PM so people don’t have to drive home in the dark because of the moose who seemingly have no fear of cars) was a skit written by the owners but involving five audience participants who were required to act out what the narrator read off. All participants were from the tourist sector, and when asked, Glenn could not really say ‘no thank you.’ So up he went on the stage, his role was to be a customer in a café and to have some interaction with the roller-pin-carrying waitress. Did not help that Glenn grimaced terribly to the delight of the audience when given a cup of coffee to drink. Ended up having to kneel down under the table. Ah, well, the audience got a good laugh. The funniest part was that the tourists, for the most part, didn’t know what the narrator was narrating as she was speaking Newfoundlandish. Made it all the funnier for everyone.

Drove home in some serious heavy fog. Did not see any mooses, thank goodness.