Annapolis Valley, N.S.

The Annapolis Valley follows the western edge of Nova Scotia, along the Bay of Fundy.  This is an area of orchards, vineyards and pumpkins!  It was a rainy day, but the leaves were still beautiful!  We stopped at Fort Anne, which has the oldest building in all of Canada's National Historic Sites, a powder magazine built in the 1700's.

The pumpkins that they grow here are huge!  In Windsor they have the Pumpkin Regatta where they hollow out the largest pumpkins, and float in them down the river.  Sean had seen this in the Guinness Book of World Records.  Unfortunately the race is in a couple of weeks and we will miss it!

We passed this field of pumpkins just outside of New Minas.  We were watching the news that evening, and we saw the exact same field, just with a few people in it who were picking pumpkins.  The kids were so excited that we had been in that place, on that day, and saw that exact picture on the news!!!