Crossing the finish line just before the sun goes down...

Hello all and greetings from home! After 46 official days of biking and a few days off in between we have finally made it to the Atlantic Ocean! Before making it to these firgid waters we were able to spend a really enjoyable rest in Charolettetown, PEI. We arrived into the city on July 31st and decided that we had spent enough of the past few weeks sleeping in a tent and so we splurged and spent the night in a bed and breakfast with a cute old lady named Mary. Now just to clarify, this was an extremely low end bed and breakfast, in fact it didn't even serve breakfast, so essentially it was just a bed and it was wonderful! We also had acess to the kitchen and so we cooked ourselves two delicious homemade pizzas and in the morning we had french toast! The next day we decided to check out the sites in Charolettetown before heading east to Flat River, where we were spending the night. The city was awesome with its relaxed demeanor and friendly residents. We even played tourists and took a guided tour of the city to fully take in sites. After the tour we then decided to take in some traditional maritime grub and had ourselves some seafood on an outdoor patio. It was delicious and super fresh! After lunch we then had to hit up the Cow's ice cream shop as we were informed that everyone who goes to PEI must experience a scoop of Cow's ice cream. It was delicious and definitley did not disappoint! By the time we finished our ice cream we had to leave the city and headed to Flat River where we spent the night with another one of Katie's mom's colleague's and her family. Maggie and her husband cooked us a fabulous meal and then took us out to their red beach where we dug up 6 huge clams! We then cooked those up and ate them as a late night snack and boy were they good! The next morning we woke up at 5 am so we could catch the 6:30 ferry that was leaving to Nova Scotia. We were all pretty excited as this was our last day of biking and made it all the way to Truro without any troubles. After we left Truro we ran into a nasty head wind which definitely slowed down our progress towards Halifax. The hills on route also didn't help and it seemed like the longest bike ride ever! Finally we made it into the city with the help of my friend Meaghan's directions and slowly made our way down to the harbour. An hour later at about 8 o'clock that night we finally made it to the harbour and threw our fists up into the air! We couldn't actually believe that we had made it and didn't really know what we should do to celebrate. So, we got a nice couple to take our picture at the harbour front and headed to a nearby bar to celebrate further and have some east coast fish n' chips! Let's just say we had a fantastic night and ended up partying with a bunch of people out for a birthday party. Once the bar closed we were then off to the airport (thanks to Meaghan) as we had to catch our plane early the next morning. I'm sure we were quite the site pulling into the airport and I'm sure most of the employees were highly entertained. In the end we successfully caught our flight and made our way back to Ontario to see our families and friends!

We really appreciate all the support everyone has given us throughout our entire journey and honestly, I don't know if we could have done it without all of you! Thanks also to everyone who met up with us along the way and gave us a place to stay, we are extremely grateful! I am now in the process of putting up a link to some of our awesome pictures so make sure you check back again soon!