Future Inns Halifax

Due to work commitments we end the cruise early. It would have been nice to have ventured into the state of Maine and seen Boston but duty calls. We learn that the horrid problem with the city sewer systems won't be fixed for another 6 months. Pier 21 looks so familiar from our trip here 2 years ago. The ...

... crossing the lower Bedford Basin with a wonderful view of the harbour and heading into Halifax. From there we milled about the streets of the city while Garmi tried desperately to figure out where Lady Hammond Road had been moved to. We were beginning to get the impression that the highways and byways of the Maritime Provinces had not made the priority list of the map programmers at Garmin Head Office.<br><br>We had taken a bit of a gamble in making reservations at the ...

... 8217;ve stepped back in time. All the staff are dressed in old fashioned clothes and there&#8217;s a whole little village set up and you can walk through all the different buildings. There&#8217;s a hotel, bank, hospital, school, post office, paper press, bakery, lolly shop, laundry, fire station, antique furniture store and some houses&#8230; um just lots of stuff! Gift shops where I got a lip gloss- not very old fashioned but it&#8217;s fruity and yum! As well there is a steam train ...

... br><br>I get into a little fight with a lady bouncer. She is adamant that I was swearing at her (Which I was not). Finally Shylo comes outside to meet us, and we go to pizza corner for a donair. King of Donairs has the best. While we're there, a band is setting up a video camera to make a video. We watch them for a while, and take a cab home. Our cab driver is from Kuwait and Shylo tries to recruit him into the RCMP. I don't know why, but whatever.

... as they could. I was very happy to see my sister, brother-in-law, 2 nieces (one is brand new!), and my mother, who was visiting to help out with the babies. After much anticipation, I met my new niece, Grace, and she is cute as a button! I was also very happy to see my 1.5 year-old niece, Faith, and I was glad that it didn't take her too long to warm up to me! The next ...

... about an hour they let me in but only after asking where I was going, who was I staying with, what my intentions were in the country!!<br><br>I met with Paulina and her son and cruised around Halifax for 5 days, The town has a lovely feel to it - bit oldy worldy. People seem to run on a differnet pace here but it definately has a lovely vibe to it. Its quite a clean in the downtown area which is quite small but very attractive ...

... Phil and made sure he had lots of rum with a splash of punch. The tips talk. We arrive at the hotel, much too soon :( The front desk clerk tells us she has our room on the 4th floor! No she did not get our request for a 1st floor. Come back tomorrow. The elevator was broken, and the nightmare begins...

We are on our way for an adventure of a lifetime. Please feel free to send us email or comments on the blog. Both Steve and I are as scared as we are excited about the move from Halifax to Vancouver...but we know that it is the right move for us at this point in our life. It is hard to believe that we finally got on the road. Only those who were with us the last week have any idea how difficult it was for us to get our life into a 6 X 10 ...

... extreme difference. Our hotel here was a steel. We are staying here for a third of the full normal price. It's really great, with all the extras and little things that make it classy. We each have double beds, the shower/bath is huge, and they fold the ends of the toilet paper to make it a triangle! This TV is cool too as we can select movies and TV shows on demand, there is a free news service, we can select the TV channel we want to watch from a menu. This on TV ...

... people there! <br>We're now just north of P.E.I. Had to watch "Sneakers" again. Fortunately I liked it (my 3rd or 4th time). We had some turbulence at one point. Exciting. Um...had my only 2 Heinekens so far (still 1h15 to go).<br>Well, that's my update. Hopefully when I write again, probably for the last time, I'll have my bag.<br><br>Chris Gauvin 4:24 (local time)