Timinator

I neglected to blog in the past week, mostly because I was incredibly busy catching up at work after having been on holiday for a week and a half. Things are roughly returning to normality now.

The holiday, as I’d briefly written before, was back to Nova Scotia, Canada, where I grew up and where our families still mostly live. Lt Dan and Nellie are the exceptions – they live in Toronto and so we missed them this time. We’ll be seeing them soon, though.

NS was brilliant. We had none of the travel woes and close-calls we had at Christmastime. Family are all super and happy. The weather was great when it needed to be. We got around a lot, but there was enough downtime to really get chilled.

Quick recap, though I’ve mentioned some points before:

• Got one great day sailing on Bras d’Or Lake out of Baddeck, which is a lovely town.
• Visiting the Alexander Graham Bell Museum.
• Lobster and mussel supper.
• Had a good meal at the Bras d’Or Lakes Inn in St. Peter’s.
• Family fun in Halifax.
• Running in Point Pleasant Park.
• Hiking and rock-climbing at Crystal Crescent Beach, and explaining to the nieces and nephews why we weren’t going to the nude beach part.
• Quick stop at The Lower Deck.
• Birthday celebration for a 90-year old great aunt.
• Family fun in West Brook.
• Hiking in the woods.
• Free lunch at Sugar Moon Farm.
• Scallop dinner at the Glooscap Restaurant in Parrsboro.
• Seeing a Lorne Elliott performance at the Ship’s Company Theatre.
• A day at the Blue Lagoon in Iceland on the way back to the UK.

If you want to know what NS (or the Blue Lagoon) looks like, check out some pics on Facebook.

How did I get up there wearing my Mr. Lazy shirt?