A Friendly Face From Home!! Oh, and a jet boat ride!

Friday was super duper exciting because...most of all, a good friend of mine from Alberta came to Saint John to visit. She was visiting her boyfriends family in Florenceville, NB and since her boyfriend was heading out on a fishing trip with his buddies, she thought it best to go see the Bay of Fundy and one of her friends. Lucky me!

With that being said, she asked me to be her personal tour guide, since I have been in Saint John for a few months, so I thought long and hard about what we should do. What came to mind was an adventure that my boyfriend and I had not done yet, so we decided it would be best that all three of us partake in the thrill ride!! (Literally)!

We all met up at Fallsview Park, where the Reversing Falls Jet Boat Ride departs from. It was there we found ourselves aboard a 20min ride that takes you over, under and quite literally through the thunderous waves/currents that occur at the Reversing Falls. How do those waves come to be you may ask? Well...the short version is....(thanks to Wikipedia.com)!!

"The Reversing Falls are a series of rapids on the Saint John River located in Saint John, NB where the river runs through a narrow gorge before emptying into the Bay of Fundy.

The diurnal tides of the bay force the flow of water to reverse against the prevailing current at the location when the tide is high. The rapids, or "falls", are created by a series of underwater ledges which roll the water in either direction, causing a significant navigation hazard, despite the depth of water. As a result, vessels wishing to enter or exit from the river must wait for slack tides (except for the Reversing Falls Jet Boats that is)."

Prior to departing we got wind-breakers and lifejackets and then they ran us through some safety precautions. Following that we embarked on a very, very interesting ride.

Take a look at the collection of photos below. They were taken by Ben, one of Alex's coworkers at NBSR!

Our crew..right before our adventure

Special....

Ready to go!

Yup! That's us!!

We're waving!!

So they said we might get wet...we ended up soaked!

Once we were done jet boating we decided to show our guest around Saint John. We took her to Market Square and Brunswick Square and the City Market. We all picked up some goodies; presents for people, memorabila, and stuff like..seaweed that we were told tasted delicious. (We tried it that evening...soo not tasty!)

Next, we figured we should check out some of the old houses and churches in the area. Here is a few places we saw.

So it's more like a castle than a house. OOh! And it's for sale! Should we buy it?

And then we saw this beautiful old church!

For supper we enjoyed a huge feeding of lobster. Despite it not being lobster season it was on sale (for one day only) at 5.99/pound!!! Lucky us!

We stuffed our faces and then realized we should maybe walk it off, so we strolled (in a rainstorm) to the K-word River.

By the time we made it back home we were absolutely wiped and ready for bed.

Zzzzzzzzzz.....

P.S! Thanks for coming to visit Lacey, it was so great to see a friendly face from home and to show you Saint John!!!