Next stop, Barcelona!

Note: I tried to get pictures to work in this post but the blog website is being dumb, so go to my facebook and see ALL of the pictures from Halifax!


So tonight is our last night in Halifax!! Tomorrow morning we will be heading down to the pier to wait in a super long line to get on the MV Explorer. Yay!

Yesterday was the search for a watch. Both Steven and I rely on our cell phones to tell time, and we both forgot to bring watches, so we headed up to the shopping district to find some. While up there, we found the Halifax Citadel and the public gardens, so we hung out there for a bit =) We also found a grocery store, where we bought some delicious apples for later and I even found diet Cherry Coke...which tastes like old-fashioned cherry coke with the cherry syrup...yummmm! Steven found raisin (grape)-flavored Fanta...very interesting. Also found many interesting flavors of potato chips. Like prawn cocktail and roast chicken. Interesting. We ate dinner at this really good Greek restaurant. It was decorated with pictures of Santorini and we decided we absolutely have to go there!

This morning, we went on a Harbour Hopper tour. It's like a Ducky tour (Pittsburgh, Baltimore) but with a frog theme. We were the only ones there until approximately 70 elementary school students came around the corner like a stampede. Thankfully, the guide let us get on the boat first and had the majority of the kids get on the other boat so there were only about 20 on ours. We learned a lot about the history of the city, like how the big pond in the public gardens is named after the last man to be hanged in Halifax. She also proceeded to talk about Sidney Crosby scoring the game winning goal to beat the US for the gold medal in hockey...fully knowing that we were American =P We should have told her that we go to school in Pittsburgh (there is Pittsburgh Penguins stuff everywhere just because Halifax is Sidney Crosby's hometown).

This just in...Steven is watching the Colbert Report, and he's making fun of the Canadian military. Apparently Canada is covered in ancient caribou dung. Hmmmm.

Anyway, tonight was the "meet and greet" at a bar in Halifax. I got to meet up with my roommate and met a few other people, but unfortunately the event wasn't really conducive to mingling (I couldn't even hear Steven talking across the table from me!) I'm sure meeting people once we're on the ship will be much easier.

All right, I have to go pack up my bags so we can head off to the ship early tomorrow. My next post will be from the ship!! There will most likely not be any more pictures until we get to Italy (June 29) because there is free internet at our hostel. Also, no facebook! You can either comment on here and I will get it via email or you can email me directly (I will post my SAS email address once I get it tomorrow).

Adios! Ciao! Zbogom! Antio! Elveda!