Relatives Galore
Shout out to my parents for getting us children up early on a Saturday and starting us on homework right away because they didn’t realize it was the weekend. Awesome. We had a nice breakfast at the house and then I did some more homework after my shower. For lunch, Dad and I walked across the street to the little restaurant so we could pick up some traditional Acadian Rapure pie for lunch. It’s basically very boiled potatoes that have turned to mush with some crust and meat, either chicken, beef or clams. It doesn’t look very appetizing, but it tastes pretty good, just like a meat and potato pie with a slimy texture. If you have texture problems then, ma’am, this is not the meal for you. After lunch we went around visiting some of the many relatives we have around this area. There are a lot of them, but I’m quite sure all of them are descended from Joseph LeBlanc, my great-great-grandfather on my dad’s, mum’s, mum’s side. The first person we went to see was Jocelyne, another one of Grandma’s cousins. She lives in Tant Marguerite’s old house and next door is the homestead where my great-grandmother and her four siblings grew up in.
Jocelyne is really fun to hang out with and she took us over to the homestead where her brother Hector lives now to show us around. After our visit, we followed Jocelyne back to Mariette and Michel’s for a dinner of fish soup and pizza and then set back out to go visit Pierre, another cousin. He’s Tante Marguerite’s son and is living in her house with his girlfriend, Corinne, and her grandson, Tony. The house is the one Tante lived in before she went to the nursing home. Isaac got along well with Tony and they watched Power Ranges together while the adults talked and I sat around. Before we left, Pierre and Corinne gave us three jars of freezer jam which was awesome. Back at the house, Dad set up the computer with the TV so he could show the cousins some pictures from our trip and I hung out with Michel’s cat Minou, who, it seems, I am not allergic to. Hurrah! Let us rejoice! I was just about to go to sleep when Dad called us children out of the trailer to go look at the stars over the ocean, which is right in Mariette and Michel’s backyard. It was incredible. Peace out m8s.