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!