Chief Justice Kennedy (N.S.S.C.), Chief Justice of Nova Scotia McDonald, Associate Chief Justice Smith, Burgers, Hot Dogs, and Sausages. They all actually have really funny aprons on too.The little picnic they put together for us was really nice. There was potato, macaroni, caesar, and garden salad, watermelon, CAKE (!!!), chips. They even decorated the space to make it nice with little lawn ornament butterflies and frogs and things. The picnic tables had nice tablecloths and little plastic shovel and pails with chips in it. The main "buffet" table had flowers on it. It was a much more glam event than I expected.
I had a can of coke (although pepsi and other products were available) to give me a taste of Atlanta. Do you know how long it's been since I've even seen a Pepsi product? Wow. By the way, people here call it "pop," not "coke" (See: Atlanta) or "soda" (See: the South).
After the awesome lunch, it was really hard to get back to work. Especially since there was a loud BOOM! right as I was getting re-organized. I looked out my window and this is what I see:
IT WAS SHOOTING OFF CANNONS! I was really excited. My dad then sends me an article about how gun shots were heard in a Halifax neigbourhood. At first I figured it was just these cannons (how awesome would that have been), but then I read the article further and it actually happened in the sketch north-end of Halifax. Halifax is a piratical kind of town, but I guess today just wasn't my day.
Apparently the harbour just didn't want me to work today, since next this appeared out my window:
The pride of the Canadian Navy! Cute, huh? I think it's deisel. It reminded me of my fiance, who's away on his very own submarine, although his is muuuuuuuuuuuuch bigger than this one. His is 2 football fields long. I think this one's about the size of a hockey rink. I guess they're just taking a little cruise around the harbour.
A large part of the Canadian Navy is here in Halifax just up the harbour from where I am. It's rather large. It's also really defensable, so that's why they put the fleet here. In order to access the location by sea, you have to go by several ports (I know for sure one on Point Pleasant and one on McNab's Island). To reach it by land, you have to go by the Citadel. I'll try to make it down there one day and take a picture of large bay, Bedford Basin, where all the ships during the War use to be. It was also at the Narrows leading into the Basin that the world's largest man-made explosion before the atomic bomb occurred, the famous Halifax explosion.
Bedford Basin, 1942, obviously not taken by me
Halifax is one of the largest natural harbours in the world. There's not much that can't go through the Northwest Arm (the main part of the harbour that turns into the Narrows leading into Bedford Basin). To give you an idea of how big it is, this also passed by my window today:
This thing was absolutely massive. You can see to the left of the ship one of the ferries. Look how tiny it is compared to the ship! I wonder if this is how big Chris' sub is. I really have very little conception of how large his submarine is because last time I saw it, it was mostly underwater.
That was my day today! I know I still have to post stuff of what I did the weekend before last with my parents, but it's late and I have to go to bed. I'm going to the Art Museum of Nova Scotia tomorrow after work, so I'll update everyone on that too!
Cheers!
I had a can of coke (although pepsi and other products were available) to give me a taste of Atlanta. Do you know how long it's been since I've even seen a Pepsi product? Wow. By the way, people here call it "pop," not "coke" (See: Atlanta) or "soda" (See: the South).
After the awesome lunch, it was really hard to get back to work. Especially since there was a loud BOOM! right as I was getting re-organized. I looked out my window and this is what I see:
IT WAS SHOOTING OFF CANNONS! I was really excited. My dad then sends me an article about how gun shots were heard in a Halifax neigbourhood. At first I figured it was just these cannons (how awesome would that have been), but then I read the article further and it actually happened in the sketch north-end of Halifax. Halifax is a piratical kind of town, but I guess today just wasn't my day.Apparently the harbour just didn't want me to work today, since next this appeared out my window:
The pride of the Canadian Navy! Cute, huh? I think it's deisel. It reminded me of my fiance, who's away on his very own submarine, although his is muuuuuuuuuuuuch bigger than this one. His is 2 football fields long. I think this one's about the size of a hockey rink. I guess they're just taking a little cruise around the harbour.
A large part of the Canadian Navy is here in Halifax just up the harbour from where I am. It's rather large. It's also really defensable, so that's why they put the fleet here. In order to access the location by sea, you have to go by several ports (I know for sure one on Point Pleasant and one on McNab's Island). To reach it by land, you have to go by the Citadel. I'll try to make it down there one day and take a picture of large bay, Bedford Basin, where all the ships during the War use to be. It was also at the Narrows leading into the Basin that the world's largest man-made explosion before the atomic bomb occurred, the famous Halifax explosion.
Bedford Basin, 1942, obviously not taken by meHalifax is one of the largest natural harbours in the world. There's not much that can't go through the Northwest Arm (the main part of the harbour that turns into the Narrows leading into Bedford Basin). To give you an idea of how big it is, this also passed by my window today:
This thing was absolutely massive. You can see to the left of the ship one of the ferries. Look how tiny it is compared to the ship! I wonder if this is how big Chris' sub is. I really have very little conception of how large his submarine is because last time I saw it, it was mostly underwater.
That was my day today! I know I still have to post stuff of what I did the weekend before last with my parents, but it's late and I have to go to bed. I'm going to the Art Museum of Nova Scotia tomorrow after work, so I'll update everyone on that too!
Cheers!
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