Loving this Calgary weather. Sitting outside on the deck - enjoying a nice glass of white wine; deck umbrella up; golfers waving as they go by........
Well I was waiting with baited breath for my "followers" to beg me to go on. Guess it's either too hot in Dallas or someone else has gone visiting to Red Deer......
So to continue on.... now I am in Halifax (was). The train station is right down town. So I take a look at my map, and realize I'm not too far from my hotel. Eight blocks, with two bags and a purse is far. Once I got past the dodgy part of downtown, the walk was nice. The hotel shower was even nicer. Because I saved money on not taking a taxi, I treated myself to room service. Watched a little tv, and fell asleep no problem with out any train rocking. That was a quick Friday night. Saturday afternoon, Bill arrived. We spent saturday and sunday cruising down the board walk. There was so much atmosphere and sights to see. The best part was watching people having parties on their boats; docked next to the restaraunt. I think I could get used to summers on the ocean. Sunday afternoon we visited the local farmers market on the dock. It was only partially open, but nice to see anyways. Then we took a quick picture of the lime green "viper" car parked on the street and we headed out of Halifax. Our first stop was Peggy's Cove. Amazing sight. These rocks just go on for ever; if if weren't for the tons of people, it would be a very serene spot. Did some walking around on the rocks; then we headed for Lunenberg. This is a small town along the coast. I had got suggestions from friends to spend some time there. I'm glad we did. We spent two nights there. I had my fresh lobster there; we visiting the Fisheries Museum (learned way too much information about lobsters). We also drove around to see the "blue rocks"; which technically I thought were more on the green side. Didn't stay too long there as it was very deserted and Bill said it reminded him of a zombie movie where the cannibals come out to get us. Our motel was right next to an 18 hole golf course. We were told that technically it was only nine, but you could do it twice. I guess we live on a 36 hole golf course..... Our few of the Harbor and Luneberg was fantastic. The owners of the motel were so friendly. The register lady didn't even take our credit card or license number when we signed in. She said to just stop in on our way out, and come try her fresh baked blueberry muffins. It was the Top Mast Motel. So Tuesday morning we left Luneberg for home. We made a tourist stop at the Ovens. They are these caves on the shore that look like - you guessed - ovens. We did a hike there and then instead of continuing along the coast, we cust across a very scenic (at least that's what the sign said) route to make our way back to Halifax/airport. We stopped in another town; actually it was a subburb of Halifax. Can't remember the name, but we checked into the hotel there. On Wednesday morning after breakfast, we headed to the airport. First we made a couple of more touristy stops. (using up time) Our flight wasn't until 3:00 pm. Around 12:30 we returned the car; and headed to have some lunch. - more seafood for me. You can probably guess what comes next.....graval and ativan and before we knew it we were back in Calgary. Patrick picke us up at the airport. Bill is working on pictures so once they are done, I'll get them out as well.
So I'm going back out side to finish my wine.
Night
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