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Back in Charlottetown.
May. 26th, 2008 12:27 pmNova Scotia is frelling -gorgeous-.
So how did my trip go: here goes.
Teh bus launched from Charlottetown rather early morning-ish. After a brief stop at Summerside, it boarded teh Confederation Bridge and we crossed the border from PEI to New Brunswick. Land of random trees and what looks vaguely like swamp-lakes. Rather scenic drive into Nova Scotia, land of epic pretty.
Trees. EVERYWHERE. And Random little lakes. Just my kind of place, lol.
After a brief stop and bus change in Amherst (another nice little location in the middle of no where XD) the journey continued. The prettiness slowly started degrading as soon as we got close enough to Halifax, naturally, but yeah. Halifax is a city. That should explain all.
... What it DOESN'T explain is the big suspension bridge that actually heads into Halifax. Think of the Golden Gate Bridge, only, this one is GREEN. and the suspension 'cables' are NEON FUCKING ORANGE. I swear, either those people didn't watch enough British design shows... or too many.
I was stuck in Halifax for a few hours until my bus to Bridgewater came in, and I took that one. The bus did some silly loops on the way, but I didn't mind - the view was pretty as desu, so works for me. ^^
Adam/Blue Falkon picked me up at Bridgewater, wherever teh heck it was the bus stopped. Bridgewater is one of those cities that's /called/ a city but it's not quite a /city/. It's -pretty-, that's what it is. XD
We watched the Simpsons movie in ze evening (Awesome. And very full of random. XD) and that was mostly it for Friday. ^^;
Saturday I woke up rather late - something around 11-ish AM. (I needed the sleep, having to wake up early on Friday and not getting enough sleep before that drained me). We headed out a bit later, made a stop on this random beach, and then continued our journey to The Ovens national park - Random effing pretty foresty trail along the cliffs overlooking the ocean, complete with little random sea caves. Right near the end of the trail we got caught by some random rain that seemed to come out of no where (I worship my raincoat >>;) - we took somewhat of a scenic detour through Lunenburg - which is apparently a national heritage site, and so the construction styles and coloring styles remained the same for years on end. Nice little place, even if it is constructed entirely of a maze of one-way streets. So we didn't stick around very long.
After heading back to his place, we spent the rest of the day abusing Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn (He fangasms over it almost as much as Sem does but not quite XD), F-Zero and... World of Warcraft. Yes, he had to show me the game. XD
What can I say of WoW that I haven't said before. Yes. Its existence pisses me the hell off, it suffers from all MMORPG issues that ever were and it totally fucking retcons everything. That's the negative. The positive is the fact they did put a LOT of effort into the world and some locations and designs -are- pretty. It's still WoW, though.
I didn't play any of those except for Fire Emblem. F-Zero breaks my brain. Too damn Vertigo-riffic. XD
What I did play however is Keyboards. MASS. AMOUNTS. OF. KEYBOARDS. And Piano. He has an awesome synthi-keyboard which he can play Midis from his computer through. That is epic win.
On Sunday I had a bus to catch around 16:00 from Halifax - so we got in the car (this time his parents were driving us XD) around 10-something AM and did a nice run through of some areas. We started by heading to Lunenburg again - his parents know the way around the maze better and they showed me a few things I haven't seen on our initial run - Including a Church that is supposedly the second-oldest in Canada, caught fire and burned up almost completely, and was rebuilt to its former glory, and a School that has its top floor sealed off as it is said to be haunted (the grounds the school was built upon were originally hanging gallows). From there we drove to a place called Peggy's Cove - which is famous for a shipwreck that happened there years ago, and the only survivor was a little girl named Peggy. She was found and raised by the people of a local village and in time the place was named after her. The place itself is this rocky beach-type area which has some insane erosion patters on the rocks. Some of the rocks look like they were picked up and placed there at random. The place was crawling with tourists - which amused me to no end. Really effing pretty.
From Peggy's Cove we headed to Halifax - stopping at the Halifax Fortress along the way to the station. Another heritage site - and so it has random people dressed up as royal soldiers - complete with Marge Simpson Hair hats and for some bizarre reason, kilts.
There's one thing that can be said for the fortress. Guns. Lots of guns. Rather, cannons. They're kinda all over the place. A few are pointed at rather amusing locations - One cannon is pointed directly at where a Bank stands today. As Adam said "Some people must really hate banks." Another cannon is pointed at the Aliant building in Halifax ("as it very well should", as Katie says XD). The interior has been converted to a museum which relates to the naval history of Halifax and the defenses the fort provided over the years. From there we headed to the station and were there for a while until my bus arrived. Overall an awesome day. ^^
It was a LONG way back to Charlottetown. The evening bus doesn't change at Amherst, but rather at Moncton, which means it had to head deeper into New Brunswick - somewhat of a significant detour, heh. It still arrived a few minutes earlier than it was supposed to - which was just awesome.
Katie's mom picked me up from the station and we headed back home. I suppose I don't need to say how much I've missed Katie through this weekend or elaborate on teh uberglomp I inflicted on her a few seconds after I arrived. ^^
So bloody good to be with her again... Mrow.
Anyhows. I have a few days here before I head off again - On the 29th I take the train to the complete other side of Canada - and will be arriving in Vancouver on June 3rd, in the morning. And then Phase 2 will be executed... MwahahahahahahahaDESU.
(I'm so dramatic.)
Also, I took WAY too many pictures in NS. IT'S OVER ONE HUNDREEEEEEEEEEED. I'll be working on shrinking and uploading a few later. Katie seriously NEEDS to get Photoshop. GIMP fails at life.
So how did my trip go: here goes.
Teh bus launched from Charlottetown rather early morning-ish. After a brief stop at Summerside, it boarded teh Confederation Bridge and we crossed the border from PEI to New Brunswick. Land of random trees and what looks vaguely like swamp-lakes. Rather scenic drive into Nova Scotia, land of epic pretty.
Trees. EVERYWHERE. And Random little lakes. Just my kind of place, lol.
After a brief stop and bus change in Amherst (another nice little location in the middle of no where XD) the journey continued. The prettiness slowly started degrading as soon as we got close enough to Halifax, naturally, but yeah. Halifax is a city. That should explain all.
... What it DOESN'T explain is the big suspension bridge that actually heads into Halifax. Think of the Golden Gate Bridge, only, this one is GREEN. and the suspension 'cables' are NEON FUCKING ORANGE. I swear, either those people didn't watch enough British design shows... or too many.
I was stuck in Halifax for a few hours until my bus to Bridgewater came in, and I took that one. The bus did some silly loops on the way, but I didn't mind - the view was pretty as desu, so works for me. ^^
Adam/Blue Falkon picked me up at Bridgewater, wherever teh heck it was the bus stopped. Bridgewater is one of those cities that's /called/ a city but it's not quite a /city/. It's -pretty-, that's what it is. XD
We watched the Simpsons movie in ze evening (Awesome. And very full of random. XD) and that was mostly it for Friday. ^^;
Saturday I woke up rather late - something around 11-ish AM. (I needed the sleep, having to wake up early on Friday and not getting enough sleep before that drained me). We headed out a bit later, made a stop on this random beach, and then continued our journey to The Ovens national park - Random effing pretty foresty trail along the cliffs overlooking the ocean, complete with little random sea caves. Right near the end of the trail we got caught by some random rain that seemed to come out of no where (I worship my raincoat >>;) - we took somewhat of a scenic detour through Lunenburg - which is apparently a national heritage site, and so the construction styles and coloring styles remained the same for years on end. Nice little place, even if it is constructed entirely of a maze of one-way streets. So we didn't stick around very long.
After heading back to his place, we spent the rest of the day abusing Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn (He fangasms over it almost as much as Sem does but not quite XD), F-Zero and... World of Warcraft. Yes, he had to show me the game. XD
What can I say of WoW that I haven't said before. Yes. Its existence pisses me the hell off, it suffers from all MMORPG issues that ever were and it totally fucking retcons everything. That's the negative. The positive is the fact they did put a LOT of effort into the world and some locations and designs -are- pretty. It's still WoW, though.
I didn't play any of those except for Fire Emblem. F-Zero breaks my brain. Too damn Vertigo-riffic. XD
What I did play however is Keyboards. MASS. AMOUNTS. OF. KEYBOARDS. And Piano. He has an awesome synthi-keyboard which he can play Midis from his computer through. That is epic win.
On Sunday I had a bus to catch around 16:00 from Halifax - so we got in the car (this time his parents were driving us XD) around 10-something AM and did a nice run through of some areas. We started by heading to Lunenburg again - his parents know the way around the maze better
From Peggy's Cove we headed to Halifax - stopping at the Halifax Fortress along the way to the station. Another heritage site - and so it has random people dressed up as royal soldiers - complete with Marge Simpson Hair hats and for some bizarre reason, kilts.
There's one thing that can be said for the fortress. Guns. Lots of guns. Rather, cannons. They're kinda all over the place. A few are pointed at rather amusing locations - One cannon is pointed directly at where a Bank stands today. As Adam said "Some people must really hate banks." Another cannon is pointed at the Aliant building in Halifax ("as it very well should", as Katie says XD). The interior has been converted to a museum which relates to the naval history of Halifax and the defenses the fort provided over the years. From there we headed to the station and were there for a while until my bus arrived. Overall an awesome day. ^^
It was a LONG way back to Charlottetown. The evening bus doesn't change at Amherst, but rather at Moncton, which means it had to head deeper into New Brunswick - somewhat of a significant detour, heh. It still arrived a few minutes earlier than it was supposed to - which was just awesome.
Katie's mom picked me up from the station and we headed back home. I suppose I don't need to say how much I've missed Katie through this weekend or elaborate on teh uberglomp I inflicted on her a few seconds after I arrived. ^^
So bloody good to be with her again... Mrow.
Anyhows. I have a few days here before I head off again - On the 29th I take the train to the complete other side of Canada - and will be arriving in Vancouver on June 3rd, in the morning. And then Phase 2 will be executed... MwahahahahahahahaDESU.
(I'm so dramatic.)
Also, I took WAY too many pictures in NS. IT'S OVER ONE HUNDREEEEEEEEEEED. I'll be working on shrinking and uploading a few later. Katie seriously NEEDS to get Photoshop. GIMP fails at life.
