The weather doesn’t look very nice today, but we decide to get out of the house and do something on our day off. Adrian is here and wants to bring us to a museum in Labrador. As we drive over the hill across the border, we are struck with sunlight. A gopher runs down the hill as we drive by. In three rooms, the museum shows life in the towns in the ’50s. Many of the traps they used then for fox and cod are still the most efficient. One artifact they had was a skeleton of a catfish. As I look at it I notice a strange similarity to Jesus on the cross. The guide comes over to tell us that there are only two such skeletons in the world. They are a blessing from God. Curious, I ask where the other one is located, and to my surprise I learn it is in Boston, Massachusetts.
Later we are invited to Trish’s house to hang out with Saydee, Caitlin, and Rudolph. He informs us that a humpback whale has been found dead in Labrador and we are to go inspect it early in the morning. Also that night, Megan invites me to hang out with her and her friends. As they say in Blanc Sablon, we went “in,” driving on a steep bumpy road away from the ocean into the mossy, green hills. The dirt road is awash with many holes and puddles. I meet more kids my age again, surprising them with the reason for my presence and learning about the fishing their fathers and grandfathers have always lived by. Knowing I have to wake up early on a Sunday morning to inspect the whale, I ask Megan’s boyfriend to bring me back out early.
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