Day 9 : We drive to Halifax & Hatchet Lake, I see my granddaughter!

Got up at 6am after being kept awake by a crying baby several times during the night. We packed up the camp early and drove to Halifax in pouring rain. We got to Halifax by 10:30 am.

It was raining most of the way to Halifax

 We drove around to the citadel in pissing rain, and were at Sam's house in Hatchet lake in mid afternoon, so I got to spend a few hours with Mado.

Mado half awake

I'm with MY mama!

I let grandma hold me but I'm not sure I'm happy about it :)

We decided to stay at the Seasons Motor Inn in Halifax, which we lucked out. When we called they had exactly ONE ROOM available. They were telling us it's been booked for weeks, and the day before an internet site accidentally overbooked them and they could not find one room for the person in Halifax, person had to go all the way to Truro to get a room!

In the evening we went to the Harbour to walk around, it was the last night of the Buskers festival. We parked at Spring Garden and Queen and walked all the way to the Casino before we made our way back.

This made me giggle.

Halifax

Halifax

The thing that surprised me the most was how HIP Halifax is. Moreso than Montreal. I'm used to Montreal's fair liberalness. I've seen all sorts of gay men in Montreal holding hands, but I'd never seen 2 women.  It shouldn't surprise me that they hold hands in Halifax. One of my female acquaintances  who lives in Halifax is in a same sex relationship.  However I was stunned. We spent 2 days in Halifax, and I must have seen 6-8 female couples holding hands.  So much so that I asked Sam about this and she's like, Halifax is Hip, I don't notice.  I didn't notice because I was offended, I noticed because I'd never seen so many women holding hands :)  We even saw 2 couples on the Cabot trail!

Seen from boardwalk

Boardwalk

Boardwalk

Seen from boardwalk

I saw Halifax police near our Motel and we followed an RCMP car for about 20 km on the 104.