20th Anniversary Trip

This year for our 20th wedding anniversary Trevor and I decided to do a trip to the East Coast. I had been to Halifax for work. Trevor has never been to Nova Scotia.

We decided that we would fly out Saturday night so that we could visit Joel at university on Saturday morning. We figured we would stay in Toronto on Friday night drive to visit Joel Saturday morning and then fly to Halifax on Saturday night one day I noticed a concert being advertised for The Shins and Weezer Trevor and I have wanted to see The Shins for a long time and in high school. We were huge Weezer fans. I looked up the date for the Toronto show and couldn’t believe it. It was the night that we were already going to be staying over in Toronto so we got tickets to the concert.

We pulled into Toronto later than expected because of traffic and we had to bolt to our restaurant reservation. We ate at a restaurant called PAI. It’s a northern Thai restaurant. I got a Thai iced tea, which is a creamy sweet iced tea

Trevor and I split the pad Thai and a spicy Thai noodle curry dish and they were both so good

Then it was off to see The Shins and Weezer, which was absolutely amazing!  So much fun

The next day we drove to Ontario Tech and had a few hours to visit with Joel. We went out to a crêpe restaurant for breakfast and then we found a class that he needed to go to at another campus and then we went to the mall and picked up a couple of things drop them off at his dorm and then we had to leave for the airport.

It was pretty uneventful. Getting here. Our flight was delayed about 30 minutes. We did have to wait quite a while for our rental car at the airport and we were just absolutely exhausted by the time we got here even the way it was a short flight.

We had booked a small SUV but ended up with a minivan. It’s making a few weird noises, but I think it’ll get us through the trip.

Our Airbnb is great

We have the worst weather with trips it seems and we woke up to it absolutely pouring rain. We didn’t have time to stop at a grocery store last night so we decided to walk to find some coffee and breakfast. Unfortunately we walked about 10 minutes in the pouring rain to a bakery, it was closed then we pivoted to a little coffee shop and it was also closed so we ended up going back to our room and then driving to a Tim Hortons.

Thankfully, on the 1 hour drive to Mahone Bay, The rain stopped it was overcast for most of the day, but the sun even peaked out at the end Mahone Bay is a cute little fishing village on the ocean. They were having a scarecrow festival and there were hundreds of these scarecrows around every single store. Front had at least one or two scarecrows set up in 1 million different themes. It was really cute to just wander around and we spent about an hour here.

From there, we drove about 20 minutes to Lunenburg We found a spot to park and spent about an hour wandering around

We looked up some places nearby for lunch and found a highly rated barbeque spot. That sounded amazing.

We ate supper on the rooftop patio with an ocean view

10 out of 10 for the food it was amazing

From there, we walked down to where we had booked a Sailboat cruise on the Bluenose II

Very cool to get to sail on this historic Sailboat The crew of 6 plus 14 deck hands who are all about in their early 20s live on the ship for the 6 1/2 months of its sailing time during the summer

When the ship backed out out of its docking spot, this little dinghy pushed up against it to help turn it, which was kind of funny

Watching the crew put the sales up was very cool. It’s like a well oiled machine. They all had a job and knew exactly what to do. We spent a bunch of time talking to the crew about what it’s like living on the ship.

After we got off the ship, we drove about 10 minutes to blue rocks, which is just a little lookout point where they have these neat black rocks at the shore

And from there, we drove the hour and a half back to Halifax This is where we decided to change our plans a little bit. The sun had come out and tomorrow is supposed to be absolutely pouring rain for the whole day. We decided that instead of doing the Halifax Harbour walk tomorrow in the pouring rain that we should take advantage of the beautiful weather and go for a stroll. We were quite tired after the one and a half hour drive, but we just decided to keep going

There was a line dancing party happening

By about 645 we were absolutely exhausted, having walked all the way down the boardwalk. Neither of us were feeling great. We had no idea if we were starving or not hungry at all or just exhausted even though we didn’t feel like eating we picked up some Halifax Donairs. You just have to get one when you’re in Halifax turns out they were delicious. We brought them back to our room and ate them while resting our feet on the couch.

With the weather looking like this for tomorrow, we have Pivoted one of the items we were going to do tomorrow is to walk along the boardwalk along the Halifax waterfront, but we did it today already. We are still going to do Peggy‘s Cove tomorrow in the rain because it just seems like I must see that we can’t leave without seeing, but we are going to skip the little hike at Polly‘s Cove and we are going to skip the walk around the Halifax public Gardens and instead we are going to go to a Nordic spa. That’s about 45 minutes outside of Halifax. We figure doing some saunas and hot tubs in our bathing suit probably is going to feel better than walking outside in the pouring rain.