Day 2 in Halifax

Yesterday we woke up to the pouring rain that we expected. We had changed our plans to be a bit more rain, friendly and we were really glad that we did first thing we did was drive out to Peggy’s Cove as we didn’t want to miss it even though it was pouring rain we quickly stopped in the gift shop for some warm drinks since it was windy and freezing and pouring rain it was so funny because everybody that was there was hiding out in the gift shop. There were like 100 people in the gift shop and zero people outside.  They had a restaurant there with these live lobsters

Lobster flavoured covered bridge chips

We actually had a lot of fun with Peggy’s Cove almost to ourselves in the pouring rain

Back in the car soaked

We decided we were already soaking wet so we may as well walk around the town and stop into a couple of the little shops. We ended up buying two small watercolour prints for the Cottage.

Then we stopped in at this really cosy coffee shop for a quick warm-up and snack/espresso

The drive to and from Peggy‘s Cove was really cute even in the rain nice seaside windy Drive

We stopped in Chester for lunch, which was where the spa was. We ended up eating at this pub, which was the oldest pub in Nova Scotia 

Neither Trevor or I have been huge on lobster when we’ve tried it in the past, but we decided to try a lobster roll. We split it and split Club sandwich in the end. We both agreed that it was fine. It was good. There was nothing bad about it, but it just really isn’t either of our absolute favourites and given that that sandwich was $34 we don’t think lobster is worth it for us. We’re still gonna get at least one lobster dinner on this trip because it just feels like the thing to do.

I was trying to capture the rain in this picture as we left to go back to our car when I say it rained all day it absolutely poured for 90% of the day and when it wasn’t absolutely pouring, it was still raining

We decided that bathing suit was the right thing for today and we went to the Nordic spa

Raining walk into the spa

We didn’t take our phones in so enjoy these pictures. Picture it like this except absolutely pouring rain.

I have to say that Trevor and I are absolutely obsessed with going to the Nordic spa just for the Aufguss ritual. They play three or four songs in the sauna as the sauna gets hotter and hotter throughout the experience. Then whoever is leading, the ritual does towel waving which moves the hot air around in the sauna and when it hits you, it gets super hot at different parts in the ritual, they put ice balls with essential oils on the sauna stove so that the sense changed throughout. It gets so hot in there and it’s just so amazing. This particular one was a little bit different than we’ve had at other spas that we’ve been to and at one point they give you like a snowball of ice to breathe in and it feels amazing as the sauna at that point is very, very, very hot and then they suggested that you can either put the snow/ice on your body or just rest it on your head and then it melts and you have a little bit of cool water for the rest of the sauna experience. It felt amazing and I’m trying to figure out how to get a crushed ice machine for the Cottage so that we can do this in our saunas at the lake. They also gave us some frozen grapes right at the end in the sauna which are also very cool the cold plunge after this very hot sauna feels amazing.

After the spa we drove back home which is about 45 minutes and we pre-ordered some Ramen takeout to have back in our room. We ate our Ramen and watched an episode of Ted Lasso. Trevor had a headache and he went to bed at 8 PM and I was shortly behind him at 8:45 exciting times with all of that hot cold hot tub saunas it must’ve just wiped us out. We’re both up early this morning and ready for the day unfortunately, another day of rain today.