East Coast Finale!!!

Okay, sorry for the drop-off there. We got home, got wrapped up in real life, and the blog got added to the pro­cras­ti­na­tion list. But it’s been weigh­ing on our shoul­ders, and we’ve been unable to blog about other lit­tle trips… So time to fin­ish this up!!! One big post for our last few days on the East Coast:

The day after Lunen­burg, we spent a quiet day in Mahone Bay. Did some laun­dry, wan­dered around town – and spent a few hours at the beach with Tegan, Sarah, Misty & Marlin:

In the evening, we packed up, said our good­byes and drove up to Hal­i­fax for our last stop.

After arriv­ing back in Hal­i­fax and get­ting a hotel room, we met up with Julia & Steve, and Nick & Helen. We went to an Irish pub called The Olde Tri­an­gle. From left to right: Me, Julia, Steve, Nick.

One cool thing about hal­i­fax, they have so many used book­stores! We would have got­ten lost in here for hours, if only it was open when we walked by:

Our last full day of vaca­tion, was just that: A very full day. We started out with break­fast at a cafe called The Elephant’s Eye. While we were there, 3 sep­a­rate peo­ple walked in to enquire about jobs and sub­mit resumes.

We wan­dered around town, and took lots of pic­tures (of course), and then went to the Mar­itime Museum of the Atlantic. We learned all about Canada’s Navy, ship­wrecks and sunken trea­sure, plus they had a coupe ded­i­cated exhibits for The Titanic, and for the Hal­i­fax explo­sion. A very well done and inter­est­ing museum, overall.

After that, it was time for lunch. We went to The Wooden Mon­key. This was a great restau­rant – we really wish there were some­thing like it in Cal­gary. I had some kind of yummy salad, and Brian had a yummy sand­wich. And beer.

For dessert, we shared an ice cream sand­wich… Home­made Gin­ger snaps, and local maple wal­nut ice­cream… Drooool….

After lunch we walked over to the his­toric Alexan­der Keith’s brew­ery, and took a tour. The tour was very well done. The tour guides are actors in period cos­tumes, and all play char­ac­ters in a lit­tle story…

After our tour (and some sam­ples) we wan­dered back to our hotel, so I could get ready for my mas­sage. We were both feel­ing sore from so much car travel and so many hotel beds, so we specif­i­cally chose a hotel in Hal­i­fax with spa ser­vices. Appar­ently Brian doesn’t like pro­fes­sional mas­sages. Per­son­ally, I think he’s crazy. My mas­sage was won­der­ful and SO relaxing.

After that, we went out for our last din­ner out. Again, we fol­lowed the advice of Sarah and Aaron, and went to a restau­rant called The Econ­omy Shoe Shop. This restau­rant was truly unlike any restau­rant we’ve seen. The story goes that waaaaay back in the day, the owner needed a sign, and found one for an old Econ­omy Shoe Shop, and thought he’d save money on a new sign, and made that the name of his restau­rant. Over the years, it has expanded into the spaces beside it, and now it is the space of a few restaurants/bars, but all con­nected. There are all these dif­fer­ent lit­tle nooks and cran­nies, and a dif­fer­ent feel­ing to each lit­tle sec­tion. We chose a cozy lit­tle table in a sec­tion that made us feel like we were hav­ing din­ner in a park.

The fol­low­ing day, we sadly packed up and got on the plane and went home… We loved this vaca­tion, and we really can’t wait to get back again. We have to admit we even dis­cussed mov­ing there. Every time we walked past a real estate office with house list­ings posted in the win­dows, we stopped and drooled over all the beau­ti­ful, ocean-view man­sions we could so eas­ily afford… There’s just that one tiny detail of – oh yeah, we’d need to find work…

Now we’ve returned to the real world. We’ve been home for almost a month now, and have already been on a camp­ing trip with Ziggy, and have a few more road trips planned in the near future… Be sure to check back for updates!