Having just spent the better part of two weeks with the Old Men, the Old Ladies felt it necessary to go on a mini-retreat to Saint Andrews By The Sea, a lovely little resort town in New Brunswick, Canada. Additional Old Ladies (and a younger one who will from here on be lumped in with the others) joined them. 

Two vehicles disgorged six Old Ladies, luggage, liquor, food and approximately 37 limes as it appeared that G&Ts would be on the menu.  No scurvy here! It also appeared that we would be unlikely to starve any time soon. After quickly storing our gear it was time for a drink and the most difficult decision of the day – which of our three decks (one per cottage at the Seaside Beach Resort) would be most comfortable. 

With drinks in hand we quickly settled into a weekend of catching up, laughing and eating with the odd period of exercise thrown in. After all, we did run out of the tonic portion of the G&Ts and had to get to the grocery store somehow.

Our only full day started off with bellinis in the sunshine. Then we toddled up the hill to visit Kingsbrae Gardens for their annual ARTrageous Festival. We toured an open-air market and then tried very hard to get seating in the cafe but to no avail. Instead three of the Old Ladies enjoyed some music in the amphitheater while the remainder went back to the waterfront to find a location for refreshments.

On returning to our cottages we selected another deck to enjoy one of the Old Lady’s marginally famous charcuterie.

Charcuterie – Who needs supper?!

By now we were pretty full but far be it from us to insult any of the Old Ladies that had brought food. We ate it all. We ate, we drank, we laughed and we laughed and we laughed. And we might have shared the odd complaint about the Old Men. I think some of the fellow cottagers were a little worried that we might be disruptive to their sleep later on but there was no need for concern. After all we are Old.

All good things must come to an end as did our weekend in Saint Andrews. We had caught up with each other’s lives. We were out of provisions. Our sides hurt from laughing. But…no one had scurvy!