Our final days on the East Coast were spent in Lunenburg, Mahone Bay, Halifax, and Florenceville. We went to yet another beach (Queensland), visited two totally cool art galleries (Argyle Art Gallery and Seeds), climbed Citadel Hill, ate dinner at The Wooden Monkey (Halifax's organic, locally-inspired restaurant), popped into the Halifax Farmer's Market, sat back for a guided tour around Florenceville, and took a break at a St. Hubert (which now serves only grain-fed Quebec chicken) just before we got to Montreal. We drank free iced tea, Nova Scotia lager, iced coffee from The Laughing Whale, and watermelon lemonade. We ate salt water taffy, caramelized parsnip soup, baked halibut, cinnamon rolls from Mary's Bread Basket, BBQ chicken thighs, organic garden vegetables, crispy bacon with scrambled eggs and toast, wild blueberries, and several runny slices of the best lemon pie on the planet. Also, yesterday I turned 29 and I'm feeling fine! (Adam hates 'catch phrases' to describe birthdays, but I think they're awesome.)
A huge thank-you to Allen and Anna for taking amazing care of our house and the kittens, to Liz and Ziad for lending us camping gear, to Chris for being a fantastic host in Moncton, to Wendy for lending us her car to take to Nova Scotia, to both Adam's parents for throwing a fun family dinner, to Karen for suggesting that we eat at The Wooden Monkey, to both my parents for hosting overnight guests not once, but twice, and for making us fabulous BBQ, to my mother for baking the famous birthday pie in 35 degree heat, and to my father for sending us home with six garden cucumbers, a huge cardboard box full of organic potatoes, and two homemade banana breads.
Riva, home.
2 comments:
Hurray! You went to Wooden Monkey AND ate Mary's cinnamon buns! Also, that forky-looking thing you took a picture of: somewhere deep in the vault that holds my most embarrassing yet most treasured pictures from Junior High, there exists a picture of me and two best friends, each of us posing like "models" in one of the holes. I am wearing a skort and foam sandals that involve velcro and 3" soles... which is precisely what I imagine you were wearing out to dinner that night?
I really miss the Atlantic ocean.
I really love all of your trip pics.
They are awesome!
xoxo
Christina
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