Today started with breakfast at the buffet. Our tour is a hop on hop off tour. A hop on hop off tour is a bus tour that has a set route and stops at selected points of interest that tourists can get on and off at whenever they want and a guide teaches you about the town as you ride from stop to stop. This means you don’t have to get off at stops that you’re not interested in and spend more time at spots that you’re particularly interested in. We arrived for disembarkation before the crew was ready so I attempted completing that sudoku puzzle again. No such luck. I might just give up. We did a complete route on the busses and got on and off at the points that peaked our interests.
Halifax is a military town and it’s creation marked the beginning of the Father Le Loutre’s War.
Our first stop was St. Mary’s Basilica. This basilica is a gothic revival cathedral with the tallest granite spire in North America. Our next stop was the Public Gardens. This garden is a 16 acre victorian garden who’s main gates only open for the Royal Family.
On our way to the gardens we stopped at McDonalds for poutine. I’m not sure if McDonalds is an accurate representation of what poutine should be but I liked it. The rest of the time out we used the tour busses to get around town and mostly shopped. Halifax has a lot of historical buildings with modern storefronts. It reminds me of somewhere I’ve been before but I can’t quite put my finger on it. On our way back to the ship we passed by a lot of restaurants, fair rides and other amusements. It was like Santa Monica Pier, Boardwalk and Pier 39, all put together. It was quite a long walk, there was a lot to do.
After we got back we had a late lunch at the grill, lounged around, had dinner at the buffet and went right to bed.
Tomorrow we have another day at sea
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