New Brunswick

A Ford #Fiesta Road Trip!

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The trend with cars, these days, is to make them smaller than ever and more fuel-efficient. With the price of gas as high as it is, I can hardly argue this concept. Even so, I was wary of letting go of my large minivan, with all of its cup holders, trunk space and dvd system. Test driving the Ford Fiesta changed my mind.

Ford Fiesta Review

We took the Fiesta for a road trip from Halifax, Nova Scotia to Saint John, New Brunswick. It’s approximately a 4 hour drive, not including stopping time. [Read more…]

Celebrating Winter at the Fredericton FROSTival

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The Fredericton FROSTival is a celebration of winter over four weekends, in and around, Fredericton, New Brunswick.

Frostival Family 2014

It has so much to offer everyone, with both indoors and outdoors with activities such as:

Skating Parties in Officer’s Square
Gallery Hop
Shivering Songs Music Festival
EdVentures Art Workshops
Capital Culinary Challenge
Winter Fairyland Tea Party
Snowfest
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Beating the Winter Blues at #Fredericton’s #FROSTival!

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This is it…our first time going to a winter festival! Not just any festival, but Atlantic Canada’s largest winter celebration: Fredericton’s FROSTival. There are more than 80 events over 4 weekends from January 24th to February 16th. It’s huge and includes the Shivering Songs Music Festival, WinterfestHiver’s winter kingdom, creating art with edVentures, skating parties, art gallery hops, skiing at Crabbe Mountain, the Capital Culinary Challenge and more! Read on to find out what our family is most excited for!

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Our Family’s Visit to #Fredericton, NB

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We decided to go to Fredericton, NB for our last road trip of the summer, because, it’s so close to home, but somewhere we’ve never really explored. I knew, when I started planning the trip, that I wanted to go to the Boyce Farmers Market on Saturday morning, but I never dreamed that we would have our days filled to the brim full of fun things to do.

I am so grateful for all the help Stacey, from Tourism Fredericton, gave me in planning our weekend. She gave me a huge list of activities our family might enjoy doing, while we were in Fredericton, and helped me plan our two days, after I chose the activities I knew we would like best. I knew I was choosing a lot but with Stacey’s help we fit it all in perfectly!

When we got close to Fredericton, we took an early exit off the highway from Moncton, onto Route 105 to see the St John River up close. It was a perfect choice because we were able to see the river during twilight and it was gorgeous! We also stopped at Moxon’s Country Pumpkin for some ice cream and to see the animals in the petting zoo.

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The Delta Fredericton Hotel on the St. John River

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We have never stayed in Fredericton before, even though I am originally from Saint John, and we love the area. When we looked for a hotel in Fredericton for our final road trip of the summer, we wanted a really nice hotel. The Delta Fredericton has a lot to offer. I hadn’t stayed at a Delta in many years as well, so I was really looking forward to this hotel. We had no trouble finding the hotel from downtown with our GPS. It is located a few minutes past downtown Fredericton on the St John River. The first thing we noticed is how beautiful the hotel and grounds are. The lobby is just as stunning with high ceilings and a lot of natural light. All around, you can see how bright, modern and clean the hotel is.

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Our Summer Fun List #Travel #SummerFun #Family

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My girls and I got a great idea from my cousin to make a Summer Fun List (a bucket list but I didn’t really want to call it that) of things to do this summer. Have you ever done this? We have had ideas before, but never made a checklist that we can follow, over the summer and hopefully finish. There are some big items on the list this summer, since we’re headed to Toronto in 3 days! We’re pretty excited. What do you think? What would be on your list?

Water Play in Moncton

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Today we stopped for a travel break in Moncton,NB at Centennial Park. (811 St. George Boulevard) It’s a bit hard to find but worth it when you get there. It has hiking trails, an outdoor pool, TreeGO, a really fantastic playground and a water play park. It’s approximately 15 minutes from the TransCanada Highway and the playground and water park are completely free. There are also picnic tables, changing rooms and bathrooms available for your convenience.

 

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