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Aug. 17th, 2016 11:18 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tvordljWe're having a rainy day today but we really need it. We really haven't had very much rain this summer which has been nice on one hand but the grass is going brown and the leaves on the trees are even starting to turn to fall colours because the poor trees are so thirsty!
I've been planning our little road trip for September. I have two weeks off and wanted to go somewhere in the province since it's likely G. won't have his Residency card mailed to him by then. He can't leave the country without it. There's still quite a bit in Nova Scotia that I haven't seen so we are going to do at least one day trip and then we'll have a few days away. I grabbed some brochures at the tourist info centre when we went for that winery tour and in one of them, there was an ad for a night sky viewing. There's a new small observatory in the south western part of the province out in the countryside where there is no light from towns or cities and they have an hour and a half sky viewing session with a talk and time with the telescope and just be out under the starry, starry night! G. loves astronomy stuff like that and though it's not a big interest of mine, I think it would be very cool just the same and something different to do. You all know that's one of my yearly resolutions is to do new things or go new places. That'll be another thing ticked off for this year.
Add to that, we'll try to go whale watching as well. All being well with the weather, we've got a trip booked at Brier Island which is one of the prime whale watching areas on the Bay of Fundy. We've got a hotel booked that does a package with breakfast, a packed lunch for the whale watching and 20 $ each off the evening meal. En route to the first thing which is near the old town of Yarmouth with a very old lighthouse nearby, we'll stop off at another historic town called Shelburne and either en route to Brier, we might stop at the fort at Port Royal, near Annapolis or do that the next day. I think there should be time to do it between day 1 and 2, though, and that leaves en route coming home to be able to stop into an aviation museum at a military base in the Valley. Could also stop in a farmers' market as well as it will be a good time of the year to get fresh veg. If the weather cooperates, it should be a nice few days and when we get back from there we have a wedding reception to go to on the weekend!
I have my eye on a day trip to a pioneer village about 2.5 hours away from here up along the Eastern end of the province. I've never been there, either. Good friends of mine are coming to Nova Scotia a bit earlier in the month, just at the beginning of my vacation so I'm looking forward to spending a little time with them before they head out to tour the province.
I've been planning our little road trip for September. I have two weeks off and wanted to go somewhere in the province since it's likely G. won't have his Residency card mailed to him by then. He can't leave the country without it. There's still quite a bit in Nova Scotia that I haven't seen so we are going to do at least one day trip and then we'll have a few days away. I grabbed some brochures at the tourist info centre when we went for that winery tour and in one of them, there was an ad for a night sky viewing. There's a new small observatory in the south western part of the province out in the countryside where there is no light from towns or cities and they have an hour and a half sky viewing session with a talk and time with the telescope and just be out under the starry, starry night! G. loves astronomy stuff like that and though it's not a big interest of mine, I think it would be very cool just the same and something different to do. You all know that's one of my yearly resolutions is to do new things or go new places. That'll be another thing ticked off for this year.
Add to that, we'll try to go whale watching as well. All being well with the weather, we've got a trip booked at Brier Island which is one of the prime whale watching areas on the Bay of Fundy. We've got a hotel booked that does a package with breakfast, a packed lunch for the whale watching and 20 $ each off the evening meal. En route to the first thing which is near the old town of Yarmouth with a very old lighthouse nearby, we'll stop off at another historic town called Shelburne and either en route to Brier, we might stop at the fort at Port Royal, near Annapolis or do that the next day. I think there should be time to do it between day 1 and 2, though, and that leaves en route coming home to be able to stop into an aviation museum at a military base in the Valley. Could also stop in a farmers' market as well as it will be a good time of the year to get fresh veg. If the weather cooperates, it should be a nice few days and when we get back from there we have a wedding reception to go to on the weekend!
I have my eye on a day trip to a pioneer village about 2.5 hours away from here up along the Eastern end of the province. I've never been there, either. Good friends of mine are coming to Nova Scotia a bit earlier in the month, just at the beginning of my vacation so I'm looking forward to spending a little time with them before they head out to tour the province.
