Hurricane Dorian Hits the Maritime Provinces|Maritimes, Day 4

9/7/19 - Saturday
After another hearty Holiday Inn Express breakfast, we drove around PEI a bit more to make use of our remaining time on the island.

The day started with a light, steady rain, which gradually picked up and wind conditions worsened.

I got a kick out of the square traffic lights

We drove through the town of Summerside then headed back towards the Confederation Bridge.

With the weather conditions worsening, it was time to pay our $47.50 CAD toll to go back across the bridge. I mean, it seems like a high toll, but if you consider that without this bridge, you're looking at taking a ferry or a plane to get to the island, it's really not that bad.

Back in New Brunswick, we drove some of the Acadian Coastal Drive, then headed toward Moncton. We decided to check out a vegetarian restaurant, but they were closed. We ended up going to A&W Root Beer because they were advertising their Beyond Burger.

Since we knew we wouldn't be venturing out again once we made it to the hotel, we stopped at Jessy's Pizza for a stuffed crust to take with us.

We'd stayed at a Holiday Inn when we'd been in Moncton the first time around, so we decided to at least try a different location and ended up at the Holiday Inn Express & Suites Dieppe Airport location.

We indulged in one slice of our pizza, stuck the rest in the fridge, and went downstairs to go swimming in the mineral pool.

We could hear the wind howling outside, so it was quite a novel experience to be playing in the warm pool while the tropical storm raged outside.

We went back to our room and got showered, warmed up our pizza, and were just casually watching TV when the power clicked off. It went off briefly at first, but around 7 PM, it went off and didn't come back on. We read our iPads for a while, then went to bed around 9. The power did finally come back on around 9:30.

We actually set up the couch bed in the other room for Francisco to minimize how much his snoring would bother me. He had to go down to the lobby to get extra bedding, and he also inquired about another Holiday Inn in the area. The receptionist tried calling, but nobody answered, so we assumed they were out of power as well.  Even with Francisco's noise removed, there was noise outside of the room in the hallway that was a bit of a disturbance.