Well, this week I had a "cool" experience. Cindy, who was nice to take some time away, drove us to Halifax. It is about a 4 hour drive from Saint John, but along the way, we had a beautiful view of the fall up here. The trees were so many different colors and the reflection of the sunlight on the bodies of water is a perfect combination. I loved it so much that in my home video, I am going to have a lot of trees.
Still in Halifax, we stayed at Cindy's sister’s house. It is beautiful. It's on a lake on Lakeshore Street. They were really nice to us, just like everyone in Saint John. I really enjoyed it there. The only thing that was not very nice was the rain . . . I mean, I love the rain, but it
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Still in Halifax, we stayed at Cindy's sister’s house. It is beautiful. It's on a lake on Lakeshore Street. They were really nice to us, just like everyone in Saint John. I really enjoyed it there. The only thing that was not very nice was the rain . . . I mean, I love the rain, but it was colder with the wind. The first day, it was a stay home day -- we got to know each other over a cup of coffee and tea.
On Saturday, we headed to uptown Halifax. It was cool, but not yet raining. The rain started after our breakfast/brunch meal at Cora's, which is a place you have to visit while in Halifax. The food is just great -- I had a waffle with fresh fruit with English cream and a orange and strawberry juice. People wait in line to go into this place. They are only open from 6am to 3pm. The food is very good and the prices are not very high.
After lunch, the rain took over while we were headed to Halifax Citadel National Historic Site. There, you have to pay C$3.75 to get inside, but it is worth it. They have unbelievable views from where the cannons were fired from every day at noon and the people are dressed as they would back in that time.
It was raining, so we took the bus tour because it was to cold for us to walk. We went ahead with the tour and we saw the Casino and the Gardens, which, because of the hurricane, were really not something you wanted to see. The tour was about 1.5 hours and it showed you the major areas of uptown Halifax.
Most of the damage from the hurricane was trees knocked down and the power outage for a couple of days or some weeks, but there was no damage on the houses. After the tour, we went to the Casino. It was great, nothing like Las Vegas, but better than the slots near the airport of Toronto. There were slots, black jack, and poker tables. There is a smoking and a non-smoking area -- I am a smoker, but I would recommend the non-smoking area because I got sick after breathing in so much smoke. The area is very small and it has glass electric door to get to the non-smoking area.
At night, we went to the Liquor Dome. I was thinking it was like the bars in Los Angeles where you can listen to the music when you are walking up to it and that it was going to have a lot of lights, but it was different than I expected. It’s an excellent place to visit. It is a number of bars with doors leading to each one. There was only one smoking bar in the whole area, which is called The Attic. All of the others are non-smoking. If you like to eat after drinking, there is a place up the street where you can get some pizza for only C$3 per slice.
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