windmills and turkey pictures.

So on Thanksgiving Monday, we spent the afternoon at North Cape. There are a lot of windmills on the island, and North Cape is where they opened the first test site - a place where various companies could test their technology and make sure it met all the standards necessary to be used for power generation. It was pretty exciting. Also exciting was learning about how much a lot of the people who live here hate them. First of all, only 5% of the energy produced by them stays on the island. The windmills are owned by a company called Irving, who sells most of the power to companies in the states and in New Brunswick. Secondly, the power has to be transported somehow; and that just happens to be in big power lines that apparently let off a ton of radiation. Yaaay cancer! Not. Finally, the only reason Irving makes windmills is to get "Green Points". The more green points they get - for doing environmentally friendly things, the more environmentally unfriendly things they can do. In this case... build an oil refinery.

We got back to the house at about 4.00, and Kyla and I started right away on dinner. Most things we had either made or prepped as much as possible on Sunday, which made things a lot simpler. Our turkey was in the oven by 4.15, and for the next three and a bit hours while it cooked, we tried to organize the cooking of all the other dishes using the only two (although sometimes three...) stove elements that work. I hate our oven, by the way. Everything turned out great! Voici some pictures...