What about Anne?

Everyone: "You're going to PEI?  Are you going to Green Gables?!"

Us: "Uh, we've never read it."

Everyone: "What?!"

Me: Revert to semi-chronic state of guilt and bring the uncracked copy Grandma Maudie gave the girls in 2008. 

The best part was reading it at the Inn with some PEI beer. Isn't that what you're supposed to do?

Turns out I love the book, and how can I not when it's part Little House on the Prairie, part Sarah, Plain and Tall, and part Waltons?

We went to lovely Cavendish and the national site there. It was as special for lifelong Anne fans as going to the Walton Mountain Museum in Virginia will be for me one day. 

There are pretty trails on the property, as well as places to sit and drink raspberry cordial. 

Another wonderful surprise came in the form of the Anne of Green Gables musical we saw that night in Charlottetown. It was SO GOOD and very high quality. Most entertaining.  And now we know the plot of this famous Canadian story written in 1908, and we see why it's so popular. 

And I promise I will finish the book.