Monday in Halifax

On Monday I found my own running route through town and just snaked through the streets so I could see all the shops and go down by the boardwalk. It was much more pleasant. Halifax has a ton of different restaurants from all over the world. There were Greek places, a lot of Thai and Chinese places, Italian, too many bars and pubs to name, and way too many Subways. I swear they have one on every other corner. I guess Canadians like their sandwiches. Oh and they had a Pita Pit! That’s the only other Pita Pit I’ve ever seen besides the one in Winter Park. I was really excited, I actually stopped and took of picture of it with my phone. I had breakfast on the boardwalk. Nova Scotia has these awesome pastries called “Beavertails” which are similar to funnel cakes I guess except it's just a long, flat piece of fried dough with different toppings. I got a maple butter Beavertail since I was in Canada –with Canada being known for their maple syrup-- and it was amazing. I am in love. They had other flavors like apple-cinnamon, strawberry, and chocolate hazelnut.

Later, I met Dawn (a woman I work with at the Office of International Programs at Rollins) to do some more sightseeing. She had actually been on the Semester at Sea (SAS- I’m going to abbreviate that from now on…it’s just too much to type) boat since last Friday and is staying on the ship with us until we dock in Cadiz, Spain. We took a tour bus out to this place called Peggy's Cove which is a really small fishing village with a cool old white lighthouse with a red roof. Wooden lobster traps were everywhere! It was so cute. It looked like a postcard. I froze, however, because I wore shorts. Stupid me, I'm in Canada, I should know better. The wind was uncontrollable. I learned a massive amount of information about lobsters on that tour so if you ever need some lobster facts let me know. Example: Someone once found a half-albino hermaphrodite lobster in the ocean and kept it to be displayed in one of the local aquariums. There was a line right down the center of its body so that it was half white, half green, and had male and female parts---talk about having problems haha. After all that lobster talk, I ate lobster linguini for dinner, yum. Dawn and I found a cool restaurant out by the water to get our seafood fix.

Someone had planned a facebook event for everyone from SAS to meet at a restaurant for a meet-and-greet so I went to check that out. It was packed, but I met some cool people- prob the girls I'll mostly hang out with on the boat. Some girls were on a mission and managed to get a club that was closed on Mondays to open up just for SAS if they could get 100 people to show up. That wasn’t a problem because there were like 500 of us in Halifax that night. I met some more people there too. It was just like freshman orientation all over again with introductions.