For our summer vacation, the bros, Erin and I decided to take a trip to Canada. After flying into Halifax, Nova Scotia we loaded up the car and continued north to see what we could find. In all honesty, it was more of an adventure than a vacation. I planned out where we would stay each night, but other than that we didn't have much of an itenerary.

All we needed was a turbocharged rental car that got 42mpg, cell phones with no signal, iPod, audio cables, and caffeine. Let's Go.

We sang songs and entertained ourselves the whole trip.

I even got a surprise with toys and candy

So what exactly is in Canada? Well, first there's Tim's - kind of a cross between Dunkin Doughnuts and Panera bread. But way better and probably a lot less healthy.

We also came across some wildlife in Canada. This is the provincial bird of Nova Scotia. It lingers in the medians of well-travelled roads and feasts on gravel all day.

They also have car-eating moose, although it would be several days before we saw any.

And of course, the epic McLobster

Even more rare than endangered wildlife, they also have law enforcement in Canada. We never did figure out why.

On a side trip down an unpaved road we discovered that the rental car would run on gasoline, slow moving birds, or branches.

Baddeck, Nova Scotia was our first stop

View from the Silver Dart Lodge

A good place to keep boats

Lighthouse on Bras D' Or lake in Baddeck

A clock in Baddeck

The Cabot Trail is considered one of the most scenic drives in the World, so we jumped in the car and made Jon tour us around the northern peninsula.

Although we looked for moose, all we really saw was a few bald eagles

Rob on a rock

The Cape Breton Highlands