Trains, Ships and Marshmallows

I have to share a few more photos from our visit in Nova Scotia--the Summer Home at Elva's Gardens, the beach, Halifax and various small towns.  We love Nova Scotia and look forward to spending more time there over the years, using Elva's Gardens as a launch pad for other adventures in the area.

Jordan and I got to celebrate our 10th wedding anniversary with a dinner out.  Likely the first time in oh... five years that we actually properly got to celebrate by going out for dinner.

We visited the train museum with a miniature electrically run train.  My dad used to have one of these and I remember we weren't allowed to touch it.  I don't even think we saw it or knew about it until I was about fourteen.  Well, when Gabriel saw this one, all he could say was "Please, Gabriel touch it!???"  There were big signs posted everywhere, "DO NOT TOUCH THE TRAIN."  Someday, Buddy.  Someday. 

Of course, we had to visit the harbour front in Halifax to just be downtown and see the tall ships.  We climbed around in the jungle gym shaped like a submarine, had some pizza and slushies and got a chance to climb aboard one of the tall ships and touch the steering wheel.  Those big old beautiful ships are just gorgeous!  They don't make anything like that anymore!

Of course, what would a visit to Halifax be without visiting with some more family!  Cousins we haven't seen in years. And they had some little people too, so the visit was made all the more fun! 

Our last night was spent down by the water roasting marshmallows and soaking in the last of the rays of sunshine from the day.  The light down by the water is just incredible and left us wondering why we don't sit down there every night doing just that.  Because if you are really quiet you might just get a visit from a pod of porpoises in shallow bay of the harbour or the long gangly flap of a blue heron who are all doing just the same thing--gathering the last light-filled moments of the day.  We got covered in a white sticky mess of marshmallows and everyone got their fill.  Even Abe.

We also got a very short visit with Emma, Jordan's step-sister.

And then it was time to say good-bye.  Good-bye to ChouChou and Fizey, the sunlight pouring in the front windows in the morning, lazy breakfasts, the bunnies that hopped the hills around the house, the rocky beach by the ocean, G and Ts on the deck before carefully made suppers, the orange sunsets, the heron, the porpoises, the canoe, the moonlit nights and star-filled skies we can't see from our yard in Toronto and the long over-grown gardens we are hacking to submission, so named after Elva.

>>>>>>>And onwards to Prince Edward Island.>>>