I’ve never been as far east as PEI but I’ve always wanted to go.  I’ve been a couple of times to Saint John, New Brunswick which is close by but it was always for swim meets and I don’t recall actually seeing much of the area.  I know we did some tourist things but the only real memories I have of the town are walking from the hotel to the pool, from the pool to the mall, from the mall back to the hotel, hotel back to pool…..  They had this entire walkway system that connected a bunch of stuff together so you never actually had to go outside which was nice because one time I was there in the middle of winter and there was lots of freezing rain and cold weather.

Enough sightseeing from Saint John and back to the PEI.  I was saying that I wasn’t really sure who sent it to me and that’s because nothing was actually written on the back.  It was a postcard for lazy people where all you had to do was check the most appropriate box.

The boxes checked haven’t really helped me narrow down the sender which is starting to make me crazy.  You would think that from the address I could tell by the handwriting but whoever sent this was very crafty and typed the address so I’m out of luck.

This post card dates from 1998 and was sent to us by Amanda when she was on her trip to Europe with a couple of her friends.  I can’t remember if it was her senior year of high school or the year before but Jen was just about beside herself when she found out that Amanda was going to be allowed to prance around Europe with a couple of similarly aged friends all by themselves without an adult chaperon.

This postcard is a picture of the Fountains at Montjuïc.  They were built in 1929 for the World’s Fair and according to the Barcelona tourist guide, “The magic fountain is a spectacular display of colour, light, motion, music and water acrobatics – if you mix all these elements together in just the right combinations, you end up with pure magic! The magic fountain is a “must see” when you come to Barcelona and highly recommended.”

Amanda made it through her trip alright but I seem to remember something about her camera being stolen on the train at some point so I don’t think there were too many pictures of the trip.  Jen was able to to breath easier when she finally arrived back home.

When they were in better health they used to travel to Germany ever other year or so to visit with family and travel around the country to see the sites. Depending the on length of the trip and the number of places they visited I would get at least one postcard, sometimes more.

On most of the postcards they usually have some type of verbiage on the back describing the scene on the front but this one just had “8000 Münich”. After doing some research it turns out that I’m just not well traveled and 8000 Munich refers to Marienplatz, the central square in in the city center. When I did an image search I found a picture almost identical to the one in the top right corner of the postcard.

Omi didn’t have a whole lot to say on this card other then it weather was really hot and the hotels they were staying at didn’t have air conditioning. We found the same thing when we were in Edinbourgh in the summer and the hotel didn’t have any air conditioning and it was hot which made sleeping a little difficult.