It's been slightly less than a week since we arrived in Nova Scotia and we seem to have accomplished a fair bit. As I reported earlier, we arrived on Monday and spent Tuesday chasing around unloading things and returning the UHaul. Wednesday, the moving truck showed up and we spent an exhausting 12 hours getting the contents through customs, out of the truck, and into the storage place in Halifax.

Then Thursday was Leslie's ninth birthday and we spent it in more entertaining ways. We started by going over to a beach on the Bay of Fundy, led by the Chair of the Acadia University Geology department, and looking for rocks. Rocks were found in great abundance and some, when smashed open with hammers, revealed hidden mineralizations. Leslie found some very nice amethyst along with some agates and other rocks rocks that should polish nicely.

Later, we went over to Hall's Harbor where there is a lobster restaurant which is the best such place I've been: You go into the gift shop and they have tanks of lobsters in the back. the shopkeeper pulls out the ones you want, weighs them, and puts them into a plastic tub that you then carry outside and around back to the cooking shack where they tell you how long it'll take to cook them and, when the time has elapsed, they bring them to you in the dining room! And they are the best-tasting lobsters you could ever ask for...

Yesterday we went house-hounting and found a place in the town of Port Williams which we now have under contract...Nothing like moving decisively! Now we have the weekend to relax and explore the area some, as well as catch up on my research work. And, of course, I'm starting to watch the weather patterns in the Chesapeake Bay and off the Delmarva coast: Very soon (I hope) we'll be heading back to Symphony to resume the journey north.