I really can’t believe the weather... It has gone from snow and torrential rain to glorious sunshine all within a matter of weeks. It is like a real summer, like we used to get in England for one week a year – always when you were just about to get on a plane somewhere hot, so you were like, damn we missed the British summer!
Over the weekend we took a trip to Annapolis Valley and visited Oaklawn Farm Zoo, it was a really lovely day out, but I think the warm weather had shocked all the animals so they were more intent on basking in the sunshine than entertaining us! Sunday gave us the ideal opportunity to take a drive over to Peggy's Cove a lovely little coastal town. We could have spent the whole day just sitting on the rocks watching the waves crash around us, it was absolutely beautiful.
We have good news on the apartment search, we’ve finally found somewhere! Actually we were torn between two places. One was a really big three bedroom place with two decks, and guess what? Yep, you could have dogs! The other one was a lovely two bedroom apartment with two full bathrooms and an amazing sea view. We were really torn about what to do, but it was also quite nice to be able to debate about which place we liked best as we just haven’t really cared about any of the other places we’ve seen.
So... We finally decided on the 2 bedroom place, so yet again no dog for us. Back to lurking around the pet shop on a Sunday afternoon picking out dogs we can’t actually have! Our time will come, I’m sure. My best friend Sarah gets a puppy soon so she can give me my puppy fix via webcam, it will just be like having my own dog, I’m sure! We move into our new place on the 1st June and I'm just hoping that this is it now and we can start to settle down somewhere. We are both so tired of living out of suitcases and are ready to live somewhere longer than two months!
With the weather being so nice, I’ve started walking to and from work, it’s a total of 4.8 miles a day so that should keep me fit! Rich is on the hunt for a bicycle, I’m also tempted to get one but the last bike I rode was emblazoned with Barbie stickers and had Spokie Dokies on the wheels. I might be a little out of practice! We're also itching to try sea kayaking, which would be brilliant to try, I'm just really scared of falling out of the kayak.
Oh, and please someone send us some nice clothes over, we both can't find a thing to buy out here that we like! Where are all the good shops?
Wednesday 29 April 2009
Thursday 23 April 2009
3 Months... Are you Sure?
Yep, believe it or not we've now been in Nova Scotia for 3 whole months. It's weird it seems like we've been here for ever! Monday marked our 3 month anniversary of our stint in Canada and Tuesday also marked 6 months of marriage for us too! Oh and two months of working in Nova Scotia too! - what a busy time!
So, yes we have gone through some changes whilst we have been here. When we arrived, it was so cold that we had to wear thermals under our clothes. I wore a ski jacket for two months solid! I think the coldest it got was when we were driving up to Ski Martock to 'attempt' to ski. The temperature gauge on the car sunk to -18 Celsius at one point. Now we are ending the month of April and although we have had many, many April showers (more on that later!) the weekends have been glorious. We are really excited about this weekend as the weather is predicted to go into the high 20s! Warm weather at last!
This warm weather is confusing us a little. It's like we've just woken up from hibernation and are realising that there is something other than ski jackets and snow to content with here. We have time at the weekends to explore, but we have no idea what to do or where to go. We're like little lost sheep wandering the streets, waiting for someone to take us under their wing and give us a tour of the 'real' Halifax.
Oh the rain? Yes the rain seems to be the worst part of our stay so far. This winter was the worst Nova Scotian's had seen in many years. I could stand in front of snow drifts that were easily taller than me, so at some point all this snow has to go somewhere, right? What do you get when you team torrential rain with melting snow, yep, you've got it, tonnes of water pouring straight into our apartment totally flooding us out! This resulted in an early morning evacuation a few weeks back. We were moved into temporary accommodation but are now on the hunt for a bigger, better apartment.
So May will be our apartment search/moving month in preparation for my parents visiting us in June. I really hope we find somewhere nice, somewhere that allows dogs would be fantastic so I can stop being that strange person in the pet shop every weekend with her nose pressed to the glass cooing at small dogs and finally own one of my own! Only, once we agree on getting a dog, we have to decide the breed, and then a name... Oh it would be great though. Please someone, advertise a gorgeous dog friendly apartment just for us!
So, yes we have gone through some changes whilst we have been here. When we arrived, it was so cold that we had to wear thermals under our clothes. I wore a ski jacket for two months solid! I think the coldest it got was when we were driving up to Ski Martock to 'attempt' to ski. The temperature gauge on the car sunk to -18 Celsius at one point. Now we are ending the month of April and although we have had many, many April showers (more on that later!) the weekends have been glorious. We are really excited about this weekend as the weather is predicted to go into the high 20s! Warm weather at last!
This warm weather is confusing us a little. It's like we've just woken up from hibernation and are realising that there is something other than ski jackets and snow to content with here. We have time at the weekends to explore, but we have no idea what to do or where to go. We're like little lost sheep wandering the streets, waiting for someone to take us under their wing and give us a tour of the 'real' Halifax.
Oh the rain? Yes the rain seems to be the worst part of our stay so far. This winter was the worst Nova Scotian's had seen in many years. I could stand in front of snow drifts that were easily taller than me, so at some point all this snow has to go somewhere, right? What do you get when you team torrential rain with melting snow, yep, you've got it, tonnes of water pouring straight into our apartment totally flooding us out! This resulted in an early morning evacuation a few weeks back. We were moved into temporary accommodation but are now on the hunt for a bigger, better apartment.
So May will be our apartment search/moving month in preparation for my parents visiting us in June. I really hope we find somewhere nice, somewhere that allows dogs would be fantastic so I can stop being that strange person in the pet shop every weekend with her nose pressed to the glass cooing at small dogs and finally own one of my own! Only, once we agree on getting a dog, we have to decide the breed, and then a name... Oh it would be great though. Please someone, advertise a gorgeous dog friendly apartment just for us!
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