Gusty winds and rain My clothes become a wet sponge Time to leave St. John's! I heard the rain starting to pound against my window as I was falling asleep last night. I awoke to hear it pelting against the window. I had a look outside and boy did it look gross out there. You could see the rains being blown every which way. There were huge rivers and lakes and pools of water forming everywhere. There weren't too many people out there braving the elements that's for sure and the few I did see were all decked out in full [View Full Entry]

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Browsing the bookshelves Updating the blog before Night on the town. I had a morning at Hava Java drinking coffee and reading the paper with Marko. The sun was shining again today but there was a cool nip in the air. I walked around some of the shops downtown again before settling into the second hand book shop near our hostel. I must have been there for a good couple of hours just browsing the stacks and stacks of books. There were so many books I wanted to purchase but kept reminding myself that books are heavy especially since I kept [View Full Entry]

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Another nice day Checking out some of the shops Chillaxing day out. Yet again sucked in by the morning TV! I have discovered that the talk show hosted by Ellen Degeneres is hilarious! She's one funny lady. Plus she had on Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and they went on for a bit about Ellen's missing "happy face" chip. Apparently a potato chip that has a happy face on it. Anyhoo, once I finally dragged myself away from the TV, my first mission was to head on over to the Post Office on the end of Water Street. Water Street has lots [View Full Entry]

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Signal Hill's awesome! Watched teh mesmerizing waves Had a wicked day. The sun was shining so I took full advantage of the situation and put paying a visit up to Signal Hill at the top of the list of things to do today after grabbing a bite to eat. Out of convenience I headed across the street to Tim Horton's and had myself a chunky chicken salad sandwich, a coke and a Boston Cream donut. It was so reminiscent of my lunches with my sister when we'd head over to Save-on on our lunch break and we'd sometimes have this. Good [View Full Entry]

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Off to Newfoundland I'm not sure what to expect Pleasantly surprised! My last day in Halifax yesterday was pretty much spent wandering the streets. I checked out some of the "Lobsters in the City" that are scattered about town. They are basically 7 feet tall fibreglass lobsters that have been creatively decorated by artisans and will eventually be auctioned off to raise money for something...to be honest, I don't think I ever found out! I also stopped by the Mary E. Black Gallery which was currently displaying "In the Margins: Works by 12 woman clay artists." One from each of the [View Full Entry]

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Wet and soggy day Been like this for four days now. Where has the sun gone? Well, this is my last full day here in Halifax so I am going to make the most of it. I'll walk along Spring Garden Road and all the shops and eateries. Perhaps make my way to either the art gallery or the Maritime Museum and hopefully by then I won't be too much of a drowned rat. Speaking of rat, I saw a dead one in the middle of the sidewalk the other day. All stiff and laying on it's back. It was disgusting! [View Full Entry]

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Happy Thanksgiving! Lounging, chatting and eating! Not much to do day... Well, being miserable outside is not very welcoming, so I pretty much stayed inside most of the day other than the quick trip over to the Tim Horton's for a bite to eat and then it was pretty much back to the TV/Common room at the hostel. While watching lots of TV, I also worked on my cross stitch. Yup, I think this is the only time I've really pulled it out and worked on it. Well, I think I may have briefly pulled it out once when I was [View Full Entry]

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Pissing down with rain Lazy day of sleeping in Arrival of fall. It was a pretty subdued day today. I found out that Maria's (from NYC) dad passed away yesterday. Really puts a damper on the day... I basically slept in today and had little motivation to get up this morning because I could hear the rains pelting down on the window and didn't feel much like walking about in the rain and getting all soaked. So I just spent some time in the TV room/common room doing some reading, writing, chatting and zoning out in front of the TV. The [View Full Entry]

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Salty Bear cancelled What a huge disappointment Four days. Halifax! Well the remaining two day tour with Salty Bear was officially cancelled this morning. Kev, our van, was in desperate need of repairs and apparently there were no vans available for rent. So that means I'll be missing out on Peggy's Cove, Annapolis Royal and the Bay of Fundy. To make myself feel a little bit better I saw on the weather channel that there is a big meteorological warning out for the area...lots and lots of rains are on the way! So after hearing the bad weather forecast it didn’t [View Full Entry]

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Two hours of biking Tour round the island and saw Anne of Green Gables! We started out about an hour behind schedule since there were quite a few people with hangovers. Or rather they were still feeling a bit drunk considering they had just stopped drinking about four hours earlier. lol We ended up having a sit down breakfast at a nice little place in Cavendish instead of grabbing a bit to eat at the Tim Horton's. It’s always nice to be able to have a leisurely breakfast instead of rushing around all the time. From breakfast we headed across the [View Full Entry]

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