Saturday, June 25, 2005
Day 1 in Nova Scotia
After getting up pretty late, Paula and I got ourselves out the door. Our luggage still hadn't arrived, but we figured that we best make what we could of the day. Whenever we go on vacation, we always seem to use the first full day to get acclimated. We pretty much never do anything too intense. Today we walked down to the pier and wandered to Pier 21 where over a million immigrants were processed to become landed immigrants between 1926 and 1971. I know for certain that my father was processed there when he came to Canada to attend Queens University in Kinsgton Ontario.
At the Pier.
Tug Boats.
A Little Light House.
Pier 21.
We are planning on going to the Citadel tomorrow which is much like the living museum, Old Fort Henry, that my father worked at as a young man and I did too in the late 80's.
We are planning on going to the Citadel tomorrow which is much like the living museum, Old Fort Henry, that my father worked at as a young man and I did too in the late 80's.
Halifax
We're on a little vacation in Nova Scotia. Paula and I just arrived last night after a LONG series of flights. We had two layovers, one in Pittsburg and the other in Boston. We broke my rule of never checking luggage, which means the curse falls into place. When I check bags, very bad things happen. Our luggage didn't make it across the border which meant we were stuck in Customs for a very long time. Air Canada had no one at the lost bags desk, leaving five passengers in the lurch for about an hour. So after a 12 hour travel day we eventually made it to the Lord Nelson Hotel. We still don't have our bags, but the room(s) are absolutely huge. We have a living room, a large bedroom, and an enormous bathroom.
Hopefully in the hour or two our things will arrive, and the exploration will begin and LOTS of photos will be shared.
