A Beautiful Sunny Day = Sunburn

This morning we did the safe thing and went to the windjammer, I can count on a croissant!  Coffee not so much.  We watched us pull into port, and this lovely lighthouse was right outside our balcony.

Regardless we  got off the ship as soon as we could and motored around a bit, Claire suggested a coffee (quite kind of her since she doesn’t drink coffee) at this place.  I don’t know what they do to their croissants or cookies (nor do I care) , but the coffee was heaven, A Lavender Latte.  

Best coffee of the whole trip!  We wandered up the boardwalk a bit but went back to the pier to catch our sail boat ride.

If you look real hard behind Claire there are a string of children apparently on a preschool outing.

  We walked as a group to the boat and it was a lovely trip, the weather was nice, the folks on the boat were fun and the sailors were nice.  I learned a bunch, not that I remember it all , but still.  Claire moseyed up to the front of the boat, I was a weenie and stayed in the back.  

This schooner belongs to the Canadian Navy, it is the last one. 

Our Ship in the back ground

We grabbed some lunch at a outdoor restaurant by the sailboat, it was lovely, the sun was shining, there was music, and our fish and chips were good.  I even tried a cider, which was o.k.  A little close to beer, but o.k. There was a loitering (actually he was with his dad on a leash  and very well behaved) dog who just needed some of my chips!  I went to the bathroom and got tickeled as this looked down at me.

We wandered and shopped, has ice cream at COWS ( I had maple since I am, you know, in Canada) 

and wandered and when we got back, I had wondered if the 

‘Hop On Hop off‘ bus might be a good way to get a quick overview of the city.  We did not have tickets and the window was closed but a bud driver told us to walk down to another window and it was closed too.  I asked the seconds bus’s driver was there any way to get tickets and he asked if we wanted to get off and on and I said no we just wanted a quick circle before our ship left and he said just get on.  Claire was iffy, but we hopped on and had a lovely tour of the city . We got to see downtown,

the Victorian Garden, The Citadel ( outside),

the graveyard where there are 121 Titanic Victims laid to rest, and the government building with a clock that stopped at the time of the great Halifax Explosion.  That explosion was the greatest non man initiated explosion there has ever been.  We tipped the driver and guide ( The guide sounded like my friend Cheryl - similar inflections and even the sound of her voice was similar - that was fun)  well.

  We are heading back out to sea again towards Boston!