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There are some days that i think the gods are out to get me. Oh, not in any major catastrophe way, don't worry. Just the Aggravations Gods that seem to be out in force today. It's a holiday today for us in Canada. And it's raining. That's typical. My last day with the rental car and i went out to Costco and a couple other shops. Encountered quite a few traffic lights. Every damn one of them red or turning red. Even the ones I could turn right on were red. No, that's not strictly true. There were 3 of the several dozen lights that were green on approach and stayed that way. One other was green but the traffic was too backed up that i couldn't go through the intersection anyway. Unbelievable.

Got to Costco, picked up my photo order. Wandered around and picked up one or two other things including a birthday gift for my nephew. It was busy in there but hardly anyone at the checkouts which was a first. I got to the other shops and realized the photo desk didn't give me my 8x10 enlargement. Aggh, back to Costco to get that.

Ok, it wasn't as aggravating as it could have been but every damn light being red was really really annoying after awhile.

Graham got back to Manchester ok Sunday morning. Missing him already and looking forward to October. This second week of our vacation was nice, a couple of low key days, a nice road trip to the Annapolis Valley to poke around the lovely little shops in Wolfville and a drive out to the Cape Blomidon lookoff with a stop at Foxhill Cheese shop too. Nom! Another day we drove south towards the south shore though didn't go as far as that. We drove around the Aspotogan peninsula where one of the memorials to the Swissair111 flight is. I've seen the one by Peggy's Cove but not the twin to it across St. Margaret's Bay and wanted to. We drove around the peninsula with all the little fishing coves and pretty scenery and had a really nice lunch in a cafe in the village of Hubbards.

In 1998, Swissair flight 111 took off from New York and had an electrical failure off the coast of Nova Scotia. The pilot dumped some fuel hoping to be able to make it to land in Halifax but couldn't and circled around so the plane went down in the sea rather than on land. Survival wise, it didn't make any difference of course, but the crash at least didn't take out anyone on land. There are two memorials, one on either side of the bay across from each other and they each can see the crash site out to sea, it makes a sort of triangle. The names of all the victims are on the granite stones.

We also saw the new Star Trek movie, had dinner out twice with friends, visited my cousin and his friend, hung out with my mom a couple of times and spent Mother's Day with the family at Sis and Brother-in-law's.

(The Star Trek movie was really good! G. said it was like an old-fashioned ST episode and it was but with better special effects. Really good stuff!)

I mentioned that getting home from New York was a pain in the ass. Rather than go through it all again here, you can read it in my travel blog here if you are so inclined.

Now we look ahead to October and our road trip to Scotland. That will be fun. And I think we'll just drive and look for places to stay on the fly. That goes against all my organizer genes but it will be October so the tourist traffic will be lower. That way we won't be locked in to any particular stopover if we aren't in the area.

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[gracefruit.livejournal.com]

If you're driving up the M80 from Glasgow, please stop by for a coffee. I'm literally 3 minutes off the motorway.

[tvor.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I'll get your contact details closer to the date!