CUPCAKES!

So, I passed a cookie and cupcake bakery on my way home from work. I stopped in and got one to go. I felt so awesome carrying this little cupcake home. Don't they look delish?

In the bakery

In it's travel seat. I should have taken a picture of it with the cute top on. I'm sure I'll get more, I'll take a picture then.

Yum yum! I ate the whole thing, and it was tasty!

They look almost as good as the Coke float cupcakes I made last week for a bake sale for my roommate's work to benefit a local children's hospital. My first baking experience in NS... aw... Quite a challenge though since there was no mixer. I had to find recipes that didn't call for beating something until light and fluffy.

I talked to the ladies at the bakery and mentioned that I had worked in a bakery in Atlanta and how I wanted to open my own bakery and how I started my own cookie delivery business. They asked if I was hiring and practically offered me a job on the spot. I'm trying to decide if I'm going to take it. I'll get money (yay!), but I'll be working weekends which is the time I like to use to explore and have fun. So, I won't even get to enjoy the money I make. Sigh. What to do?

Today is a cool (geeky) legal day

So, today is awesome! Not relevant for all you non-law student followers, but here's what I got to listen in on today:

1. Crazy scheduling (again). It was an absolute ZOO because apparently everyone decided they wanted to come to court today. Actually, there was a particularly bad case (something about a young guy and girl in their early 20s killing a 19 year old girl. real shame) that was being scheduled and so the victim's entire family came in. There must have been 30 of them and they were all really emotional. The grandfather even had a picture of the girl that he held up the entire time that the case was up. The girl accused kept hiding behind her hair the whole time. Someone in the family kept making like little sighs and humphs every few seconds. When the case was finally scheduled, they all left en masse. It was really noisy. I think they expected something else to happen. I don't think they realised that it was only scheduling for when the real trial would occur (in March 2010. wow, really far away). There were also a number of other cases where there was a whole family in the audience.

2. The last case was brilliant though! The judge had to sign a search warrant for a sherriff to search a well-known financial company. Apparently it was a scheme by some employees that scammed about 20-30 people out of $34 million dollars. The justice initially read the number wrong and was like $34,000 and then said, "oh wait. I'm off by a few zeroes. that's 34 million. That's a big difference, isn't it?" I'LL SAY! There was mention that one woman already plead guilty and got 10 years in prison. What makes it even MORE interesting of a case was that it's an American investigation and the US investigators were trying to get this search warrant under the Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters Act. How cool is that? Also, this financial company didn't contest the search warrant, so that's nice. Sounds like the company wants these people caught and are not trying to sweep it under the rug.

3. Sat in on a hearing where the guy was trying to change the terms of his recognizance. Could have been boring except for a few things: this time I got to sit at the FRONT of the room under the judge and got to wear a snazzy robe, which was awesome since the court room temperature was set on cryogenic and it kept me warm. The Judicial Assistant, Wayne was awesome and pointed out what he did up there and showed me the recording software. It was also a hearing with a witness who was the applicant's common law wife/girlfriend, so the witness was literally right behind me. I tried so hard not to turn around and stare at her. She was so indignant about the whole process and was not happy with the judicial system. The Crown prosecutor was excellent, and I think she was getting really annoyed with the witness and the applicant. Anyways, the applicant filed a document with the court and didn't file it with the Crown, so the Crown was trying really hard to be patient with the witness, but everyone was confused since the Crown didn't have the updated evidence. It was the applicant's fault really, who is self-representing. The Crown prosecutor I don't think trusts this applicant at all because she wanted a certified copy of the evidence since all the Court had was an old order with handwritten changes that were initialed by the witness and the applicant, but not the Court or anyone else. I'm not sure what's going on with this case, but the justice told me later that this guy is not the most trustworthy of folks, and the prosecutor is wary of this guy. The terms of his recognizance have been changed 4 or 5 times already, and the justice says that this is suspect. Plus, usually the Crown doesn't oppose changes to recognizance too much unless they believe that the change will lead to criminal activity. He thinks that the Crown is pretty opposed to the change right now. So, the matter is being held (a continuance) until next week. I'm definitely going to that one!
OH! And they brought their newborn into court and the applicant bottle fed the baby during the hearing! NO LIE!

3. I am now reading files for ex parte actions that are on tap for tomorrow. Here's a quick list:

• A guy bought a car (a sexy 2000 Pontiac Sunfire, flame decals not included. No, that's not the actual car) and then defaulted on payments. The company then repossessed the car and sold it and sued for the deficiency. The guy didn't even appear in court and so a default judgment was enterred against him. After garnishing his wages for 1 month, the guy either quit or did something because he was no longer employed there. They can't find him or somewhere he's working in order to garnish wages, so they're trying to just get an order so they can find him and start selling stuff.
• A guy defaulted on a mortgage. He also didn't show up in court. This one's only good since Bank of Montreal is the plaintiff. I want to see what bank attorneys look like. Plus it's a really big default judgment.
• Ok so this one's kind of interesting. A man killed him and his wife in a murder-suicide. She had an insurance policy of $300,000. The beneficiaries were her husband and her 4 children. On the policy, there's a handwritten change striking out her husband, but there are no initials or anything. So now the husband's estate and the 4 children are here to figure out how to split the $300,000. So, I think I need to do some hunting around. I think in the US a person cannot benefit from their own bad actions. A person can't kill their wife in order to get insurance benefits. They're called Slayer Statutes. But, he killed himself, so technically he is not benefitting, but his estate is. I don't think this makes a difference though; I'm trying to remember that random constructive estate case from Property in the fall. I'm also guessing that the children are not beneficiaries of his estate, otherwise they would get the money anyways. Either that or his estate has a lot of debt and the children wouldn't see any of the money since it will be used to pay off creditors. I'm not really sure. I'll have to see where this one goes. Any Canadian lawyers want to shed light on the slayer statute issue? That's you, Uncle Ben, since you're the only Canadian lawyer reading this blog.
• So this one I barely understand. A man is seeking to be appointed guardian of his grandmother who's 97. She's considered legally incompetent. He has to file a bond of $25,000. I know from talking with the Justice that there's a deficiency in this file since you can't just ask for $25,000 and the money must be related to something. Not sure what. Hoping this will come out tomorrow.
• I have no idea what the last one's about, except that one of the parties has the name "Maizie Belle." That sounds like a Georgia name. I hope she shows up in court! There are a bunch of receipts with things circled and question marks and one receipt from the dollar store of some person paying with a credit card. Their name is circled with a big WHO IS THIS? There's also a note in the margins that says "concept caskets." I think this will be a good one.

So, there's also something called "appearance day," which is lawyers getting in trouble for being bad lawyers. I'm kind of excited. The justice who's presiding is pretty harsh, so I can't wait!

There's also this case where the defendant is seeking dismissal of claims since the action started in 1998 and it still hasn't ended up in court yet. The plaintiff is saying that there were a whole bunch of reasons why it's taken this long and it's partly the defendant's fault. This is likely to be particularly contentious. It sounds really cool. The only problem is that it's going on at the same time as some of the other things. Can't decide! ACK!

Traffic?

So, on my way home from a very long day at work, I overheard someone say that "the traffic in Halifax has really gotten horrendous."

I beg to differ! You have a transit system that works, a city you can walk in, people who stop at crosswalks, don't run red lights, don't gridlock, let people merge, don't speed, and generally follow all rules of the road. Impressive and definitely not horrendous.

LATE NIGHT UPDATE

1. Had poutine. I've been talking about it since I got here, and finally had it TONIGHT! For the first time in 3 years or so. Mmmmmm. I love that gravy goodness.
2. Saw HSM again on stage. This time I stuck around and took pictures and got autographs. Are you jealous, Robin?

Me, Gabriella, and Troy. I was getting cut off by like 6 year -olds and stuff, but I felt bad. Finally, after waiting for a long time, I had to throw some 'bows and knock out a few kids.

Ryan. and some girl creeping on my picture. Her mom like threw her into my pic. Ryan was trying to sneak out and I called him back. I've been to this show twice. He owes me.

The announcer guy. So good! Stole the show.

You'll notice that there's no picture of me and Sharpay. I think she peaced out super early and didn't take pictures with anyone. Lame.

3. Going kayaking with Ryan the tourguide tomorrow. If he wasn't so darn cute there is no way I'd be doing this, and especially not at 8 AM.

Fisherman's Cove

Last night Katie and I went to Economy Shoe Shop and had the nachos. I am happy to report that they are indeed excellent. The small could feed a family of 4 and the large could feed a small army. Needless to say, Katie and I shared a large and ate it all. Afterwards we went to Durty Nelly's. We were waiting for the cast of HSM to show up, but they never did. However, when we left, we totally saw Troy walk the other way. I yelled after him (much to Katie's embarassment). He didn't turn around. So, Robin, I too brushed by greatness!!

Today, I went again to the Farmer's Market and bought some bread for next week's sandwiches, some butter tarts, and rasberry jam. Yum! I got up early because I wanted to see the Chilean sailors exercise by climbing the rigging and also catch them sail away, thinking they would leave early in the morning. By the time I was done at the market though at 8AM, they had barely woken up, so I just went home.

Yuck. Mushrooms.

So, after that we decided to take a trip to Fisherman's Cove. It's really no different than the countless other fishing villages around Nova Scotia, but it has the benefit of being in Halifax. The easiest way to get there is to take the Halifax-Dartmouth Ferry which runs really often during the weekdays and about every half hour on weekends. It's $2.00. During the weekdays, you can theoretically take the Halifax-Woodside Ferry which gets you closer to Fisherman's Cove. However, it's more of a commuter ferry so it only runs during rush hour (7AM - 10AM and 3 PM - 6PM). The Halifax-Dartmouth Ferry runs all day. You can always drive there, but save yourself the hassle of traffic over the bridge. Plus, you get great views of the Halifax harbour on the ferry and it's only 8 minutes.

That's my work -- the ugly little building

Make sure you get a transfer when you pay (exact change, please). When you get out of the ferry terminal, jump on the #60 bus. Stay on the bus around a half hour or so. Keep a lookout for a big green road sign that says "Cow" something Lane. Pull the yellow cord; that's where you get off. Fisherman's Cove will be on your right. And this is what you'll see!

Nova Scotia's version of the Chick fil-A cows

Katie and I are going to High School Musical (again for me!). Will post again soon!

I see London, I see France, I see color in Halifax!

Spring and warm weather has finally arrived! It was 70 yesterday and 75 today (yay!). I found out from my justice that it's never humid. AND PEOPLE ARE WEARING MORE COLOR! Hello, orange cardigan! I will wear you on Monday, my friend.

So yesterday I got to cut out from work early to go to a conference with all the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia justices. I learned TONS of stuff. I will make a post in the future about it when I get some info back from my Civ Pro professor, BoRut.

So, there was a reception afterwards and they had all this fabulous finger food. It was really intimidating being around all the justices, but they were all so nice to me and incredibly warm. I was probably more nervous hanging out with Charlie, my old boss at the law firm I worked at, then with these justices who have among the most power in the province. These two female justices found out I wasn't getting paid, so they kept encouraging me to eat more and more and more. They were hysterical. This one justice kind of reminded me of Abbott from Abbott and Costello. They all knew who I was since apparently an e-mail went out about me, so they were more than happy to come up and introduce themselves and say hello and ask about me and how I was doing. I've found that all of the justices here are like that. They love dropping by my office and inviting me to chambers or to sit in on things. And they all make sure that I know what's going on and explain things if they think it's different than the States. They also will ask me questions about differences between the American and Canadian system, and actually listen to my answers (as if I know anything!). This could have been one of the worst experiences ever, but I am finding it more and more rewarding as I go along.

So after massive amounts of fried lobster rolls and salmon ceviche and these duck spring roll things and mushroom and leak soup in a puff pastry bowl (all good and I don't even like seafood!), my roommate texted me to find out if I wanted to go to Sushi. OK!


We went to Hamachi House. The sushi was really good (try the spicy tuna roll), but the service was incredibly slow. We had to go in twice in order to ge our orders in after we had gotten the menus. It also took a ton of time to get the check. So all the restaurants in Halifax make outdoor patios on the sidewalk and then build out walkways into the streets where the parking spaces would be. It's not that big of a deal since noone in this city drives anyway. I'll try to get a funky cool picture of it.

So afterwards we went to a concert. The music scene here in Halifax is insanely awesome. There is live music EVERYWHERE and it's all different. That Mexican restaurant that Robin and I went to earlier had the best guy singing and playing classic rock. Every resturant has music nights and everyone knows about it. Even the justice that I work with (who's at least 65) was telling me about his favorite bars that he goes to on certain nights in order to hear his fave music. How awesome is that? So everyone plays an instrument and is a singer-songwriter. In all the parks and on the streets there are always street musicians. Paul McCartney is making Halifax his only Canadian stop on his tour. He's coming during the Tall Ships Festival and so is KISS. I'm trying to decide if my dad will think that this is a legitimate purchase...

Ashley's roommate was playing and they kick started their tour here in Halifax. The venue was cool, but it was in a super shady part of town. I wish I had brought my camera, because this would have been a great one. Instead you have to settle for a crappy camera phone pic:
So the two girls on the left are actually the ones touring and the girl on the right is just guest singing. So that's Carmel Mikol, Kim Wempe, and Norma MacDonald. They were all amazing. If you're in Halifax, check out if they're playing. It'll be well worth it. Kim was phenomenal. She has this voice very similar to Adele, but more powerful and I think better. I'm contemplating buying her stuff on iTunes. D/L "Oh Heart" and "Out of My Closet" if you can afford it. The concert was great; part comedy, part music, part showcase. I'm glad I went, even if it was super late.

Today, I took off to go to part 2 of the conference. More about that later. I had filipino food for lunch at a buffet. It was like $10 and was really good. YUM!

The day was so beautiful that I walked all along the waterfront (a much longer way home) so that I could be by the water. There's also a Chilean ship in town that I wanted to see. It's like a pirate ship! Here she is, the Esmeralda:
I don't even want to tell you how MASSIVE this thing was. When I stepped on the boat, I was happily stopped by a Chilean sailor who wanted to know if I had any questions. There were tons of sailors on board milling around, but they only stopped groups of women. How funny is that? That's him on the left -- Cristobal:
So, I asked all sorts of questions. The ship is 140 meters long (I think that's what he said. At any rate, bigger than 2 hockey rinks). The masts are 46 meters high. There are 305 crewmembers on board and the space is tight. They are all officers. After graduating from the naval academy, all officers do a tour on this ship before they go to their real ones. Technically their mission is "Navigation." For exercise each morning, they climb up and down the rigging.
Yikes! I would not be doing that. On a good day, it takes about an hour to raise all the sails. I asked if the food was good. Apparently it's not bad, but it's definitely better in port. I found this little hatch that looked down into the kitchen, so I took a pic for you, mom. No galley tours though. It sure smelled good!

I wish I asked how many meters of rigging was on this boat. There were ropes EVERYWHERE.

Canada-Chile Love

Bet that little ship has a bit of a complex next to this one

Ahoy!

So, Katie went to PEI for a few days and is supposedly on her way back. I assume we're going to do something interesting tonight, so if something fun happens, I'll post!

Nacho Cheese?

What is it with this town and their obsession with nachos?? I am positive there is all of one person south of the south-south border (they call south of the border here the United States. I mean Mexico). And yet, every single restaurant has nachos on the menu that each promotes as the best nachos in Halifax -- even the Irish pubs. So much so that the local free paper here in town (kinda like the Flagpole in Athens or Creative Loafing in Atlanta) had a section on where to eat in Halifax this month and there was a whole entry dedicated to the best nachos. For the record, it's Economy Shoe Shop. They even had a half page article on nachos. Really? I'm going to have to try these nachos. Coming from Atlanta which has great Mexican food on every other block, I'll have to put them to the test. I know nachos. I have had many a drunken nacho fest. I feel like I would be more than capable of being a judge here. While I am not as experienced as Deanna and some of my other Mexican-food aficionado friends, I am the most qualified in Halifax by a long shot. Any suggestions on what my judging criteria should be?

For the record, my roommate's friend Ashley says that the nachos at the Wooden Monkey where she works are the best. I say false, and I haven't even tried them. Since they only use local products and avocados are not local to the area, they don't have guacamole. I said this already. While I appreciate their eco-world-Canada friendly agenda, they can never be the best nachos without guacamole. You can pick it off or not order it if you don't like it, but it at least has to be available. A for effort; F for follow through.

FINALLY! SOME CULTURE!

So, Robin and I had a packed day/night.

Friday night - DIY pubcrawl
There are lots of pubcrawls in Halifax that you can go on, but most don't start until the season officially begins around June 1st, so Robin and I decided to make our own!

Those who like it, like it a lot!

What's up, Keith? We love you too.



Sláinte Mhath!

We started the night at one of the local breweries here in town, Alexander Keiths. They're famous for their IPA (which is pretty good for an IPA. I don't really like them, but this was tastey). I liked their stout and their white beer. I've been on a lot of brew tours, and this one was by far the best. Not too much learning. The tours are conducted by actors who are in character from like 1860 or so. It's funny and fascinating all at the same time. They don't break character either. If you have a modern question to ask you have to wait until the end. They sing period drinking songs and ballads and tell bawdy jokes during the sampling time (you only get two. sad day, i know) and they teach you to play pub games. They got their start selling beer to the local military naval base here in town back in the day. Soldiers and sailors got 1 gallon of beer a day. The local brew here at the time was so terrible and flat that they switched the ration to grog. Then Alexander Keith came along and made this great beer and sold that to them. So he had a built in market and made loads. If you want to look like a local, then order a Keiths.


Next stop on the DIY pub crawl, Economy Shoe Shop:
It's really more of a restaurant, but the food is fab and the beer flows freely. The waitstaff is also really nice and fun. The interior of the place is gorgeous. It looks like you're in a forest. It's seat yourself, so don't wait around trying to get your name on a list. Also, the washroom (not bathroom here) is super hard to find and not marked, so make sure you get someone to walk you there. The place is absolutely gigantic; there's room after room after nook after cranny. It's really easy to get lost, so bring a compass and a prayer. A little pricey, but definitely nice to bring someone if they come to visit. We actually spent a very, very long time here, so while we intended to hit up a lot of pubs, we actually didn't get to since we were here so long.

Kim, Me, Robin, and Ashley

Although we didn't go to the Old Triangle on our DIY pubcrawl, we did go there for dinner before High School Musical. I guess since we're talking about pubs, I'll talk about here. Halifax likes to boast that it has more bars per capita than any other city in Canada (some people will say North America). I'm not sure about that statistic, but there are definitely a lot of bars/pubs and nightclubs. I guess with a town of only 400,000 people, the amount of restaurant-bars they do have is pretty astounding. So anyways, Old Triangle... Great food (I had the Dublin Pastie and it was AWESOME, so try it). The service was pretty crappy, but that's ok. I guess it was a little busy. So if you need to be somewhere fast, don't go here. They do have these cool little rooms with one table (about a 4' by 4' room) that's pretty cozy. That's where Robin and I sat. So you can bring all your friends (or like 6 of them) and fill up a nook, or you can just have fun with another person. Overall, not a bad spot.

So we ended up the night at this place called the Wooden Monkey. It's mostly a restaurant, and I think it's kind of expensive. Everything there is organic and locally grown, which is cool. So for the nachos (which I hear are delicious) there's no guacomole, because avocados are not native to the area. My roommate was there with her friend Ashley, so we went there for a few hours and drank. I had the other local brew Propeller, but I didn't like it much. I had their Bitter and it was not that great. Oh well. So we sat there for awhile. We tried to explain about the dirty south and stuff. Ashley wants to throw a Dirty South party, and I said we definitely should. I wonder if that will happen.... We'll see...


So we spent so much time at those places that we really didn't go to any other places. I'm sure I'll go on more. I had pizza at this place on the way home called the Big Slice. It was decent, but kinda pricey ($4.95 for a slice!). So that's when Kim (the roommate) told us that there was a farmer's market that started at 7 AM the next morning. It was already 1AM. I told Robin that I'd set my alarm and then if we could roll out of bed to do it, then we should go since it's only on Saturday and she would be leaving on Sunday.

Saturday, really early AM - We made it!
One of the best farmer's markets I've ever been to.

We decided that we can sleep when we're dead, so we went! It's actually in the same place as the brewery with the stalls tucked all in and around and downstairs and stuff. There was EVERYTHING. Bread and vegetables and flowers and pastries and fish (yuck). I bought a really cute pink with polka dot handmade bag. This cute man was selling them for his wife who's been making and selling them for 10+ years. They also had lots of crafts and handmade jewelry and leather goods. There were honey and cheese sellers (that's for you, dad!). Teas and even beer! Although it was only 7 AM and waaaaaay too early for beer, especially given the volume we had drunk the night before. There were also crepe stalls and waffle stalls where you could get breakfast, which is what Robin and I did. You could also buy coffee (which smelled awesome), but we held off. Robin bought butter tarts. Gosh I miss those! I use to eat them all the time. Here are a few of the pictures:

One of the rooms. I'm standing at the top of the stairs leading into the brewery taking this picture

I call him "Man With Leeks"

Fiddleheads - they take the new fern before it has a chance to become a full grown Fiddlehead fern and pick them. It's cooked up like asparagus with garlic and butter. We never had these in Ontario. It's a local thing. I'm going to have to try it before I leave. They look good, don't they?

Radishes. Don't they look delish? I don't even like radishes, and I think I would eat these.

I think I'm going to come here and get my bread for sandwiches from this lady

On our way back we stopped at the Second Cup coffee shop to have a nonfat no whip white mocha and chai latte. We were chatting and minding our own business when all of a sudden there was a huge ***CRASH***!! The barista had closed the door to a refrigerator case and the front came crashing out. It went EVERYWHERE. It's a good thing it was tempered glass since Robin and I were literally sitting right in front of the case. That could have been dangerous (and painful).

Saturday Mid Day - Polly and Peggy's Cove with Ryan

Ugh. So the reason why we weren't sure about that farmer's market deal was because we had scheduled a hiking tour for that morning/afternoon. Keep in mind that Robin and I have had very little sleep and we're still oozing Keith's. However, even though we were a little hungover, it was still a great hike. We went to Polly and Peggy's Cove.

Anyways, Robin has already been on 2 other tours with Ryan, our guide. They're practically best friends. He is the Steve Irwin of Nova Scotia, except not so dead. He does have a cute accent though. Ladies, he is really nice, really knowledgeable, really cute, and really engaged to some gorgeous girl. One of my roommates knows him and says that his fiancee is "smokin' hot." Anyways, Robin has had a great time with him over the past few days, and I totally recommend him. This is his website. He is actually very, very cheap compared to the other tours around here. He started this business a few years ago, and I think he's really going to do well. You usually get lunch when you're with him, and he even stopped at a coffee shop called Bike and Beans (it's a coffee shop and bike shop) for us. Great hot chocolate. If you ever come to Nova Scotia, look him up, because he's wonderful. He's just so excited about everything. On the way there, he saw an osprey (I swear he can see EVERYTHING -- he can tell that a bird 30 feet in the air has a fish in its mouth) hanging out on a telephone pole. I didn't even catch it. But he turned around and pulled over so that we could try and get a picture. Unfortunately, it flew away, but we followed it for a little bit and saw it dive into the river to get a fish. Ospreys can see fish in the water from a mile up. I can't even see the board from the third row. Tell Ryan that I sent you, and he'll treat you like family. He's a sucker for a yard sale, so make sure you keep him away from them.

So first we went to Polly's Cove, which is a lesser known haunt. It's beautiful. There are all these gigantic boulders everwhere called erratic boulders that were left here after the glaciers came through. The whole thing is pretty sparse (Robin called it a tundra even though there's no snow). But there is some plant life. All the trees are really small because there's only a few inches of soil. We came pretty early in the year, so there wasn't too much vegetation and flowers, but it was still gorgeous. If you look down there are lots of crab legs and bodies. Birds will pick up crabs and take them up about 40 feet and then drop them on the rocks below to open them, and then eat up all the insides. Make sure you don't get a crab to the noggin! There was noone around but us, so that was really nice. It was just so peaceful and calm. Doesn't it look like a place you want to be?

This is Polly's Cove

This is called Rose something or other. I have no idea. I just thought it was a cool picture. It has huge beautiful yellow flowers in the summer.

Erratic Boulders. Don't believe Ryan when he tells you they're made of styrofoam like in Disney. They're not. Apparently some tourists believe him and kick them and get stubbed toes and such nonsense. As much as you think that that was me, it was not. I assure you.

Up the river

I swear things are not as overcast as it looks. While there was cloud cover, it was actually really bright. The autocorrect on my camera was just going nuts. This was the view from the top of Polly's Cove to Peggy's Cove.

Peggy's Cove is really famous and has a lighthouse on the end of it. There was a shipwreck (well actually there were a lot of ship wrecks, but this is an important one) where everyone but this one girl died. She had hit her head and didn't remember anything, but the town took her in and named her Peggy. The town was eventually renamed after her. They say she still haunts the rocks by the lighthouse. By the way, the rocks are slippery and the water is cold. Don't be stupid and try to climb down there for a great photo op. Some guy did that and fell (and didn't go in the water), and looked ridiculous. Don't be him.

The place is this cute little fishing town. At one time they made all their money from fishing and lobstering or whatever you call it. Now they make a lot of their money from tourism. There's a restaurant/gift shop called the Sou'western (pronounced "sow-wester) named after the southwestern winds that pummel this little province. Those yellow Gordon's fisherman hats are named Sou'westers. Anyways. The houses are just scattered on the rocks and really brightly painted. The whole town is so cute. I'll let the pictures speak for themselves.


Ryan took us to this great place outside of Peggy's Cove for lunch. He wanted to make sure that we ate where there was noone else around. He brought a blanket and we ate out on the rocks. This was our view:

Saturday PM - Dinner Theatre

After that exhausting day, we took a nap and went to Grafton Street Dinner Theatre. This show was about a cruise ship that got overrun by pirates set to 80s music. I'm not kidding. It was my dream. It was a little pricey (About $45), but not too bad, and the food was pretty decent (maybe a little underseasoned). There were TONS of choices though, so that was good. I would definitely recommend going. It was funny and entertaining.

So that was our day! Exhausting, wasn't it? We slept well, but not for very long. Wait until I get time to tell you about Robin's last day :(