After a wonderful brekky of cook-them-yourselves waffles, we were at Green Gables at 9am when they opened. We had to go through a picket line to get in - some sort of employee protest. So there was no-one at the ticket counter when we arrived. We waited 5 minutes and decided to go on in to at least photograph the house. We found the house was about to be unlocked anyway, so we got to go through it, and the barn exhibits.

The house was where Lucy Maude's grandparents' cousins lived and was just used for the setting of the story in Lucy's mind, but now it has all been changed to become the setting in the book (e.g. "Matthew's room"). We enjoyed looking over it, bought some souvenirs and then drove on, back across beautiful PEI (so English looking) and back down to Avis in Halifax. We left Green Gables at 10am and returned the car at 1.35pm!!! They had a shuttle in town that took us back to the ship and we arrived back on board at about 2.30pm - in time for a late lunch - and then caught up with emails to and from the girls. It's wonderful being on a modern ship with modern technology.

We went and watched the sailaway - the Raddison ship left just before us, and the Regal Princess joined the convoy after us.

At 5.30pm we were to see the US Immigration people - the line up started at A Stairway at the front of the ship, all the way down to C Stairway when we joined it. As we worked our way down to the A Stairway the line got longer and longer. The immigration people just took a look at our QM2 photo and our passports and that was it!! The line-up was bad because a lot of people just went when it suited them, not at their allotted time. Americans can be dreadful. We have come across three other couples from Australia - Northmead, Nowra and Melbourne.

Dinner was formal so we got ourselves ready and then went up to the Commodore Club for cocktails. There was a full moon on the water - it was beautiful. All of our crockery is Wedgewood fine china and our glassware, even for water, is Waterford.