A Walk Around Fredericton

After two sweaty days of orientation I decided to spend some time outside getting to know the city where I will be living for a year.

Here are a few photos of my wanderings:

There are nice churches

They take pride in their city through planters!

An Indian Food Place I will eventually check out!

There's a Strange Adventures here too!

Fancy burger joint - yes please! I don't think this woman was
too pleased with my photo taking

They have FRAGGLES!!  and Tevas

This unfortunately exists outside of Halifax

This is an old school, not it's apartments. I think this would be
the neatest place to live!

Korean and Japanese food restaurant I will
again, eventually visit!

I think this is a graphic design firm or art gallery. Whatever it is,
I like their sign

Music Store, Tony is so clever to make the "o" in his name
a music note, well done Tony.

Settling In

Since yesterday was so hot that I thought my computer might explode I waited until today to bloggity blog about my time in Fredericton so far.

On Wednesday morning, with the van packed with more stuff than it's seen all summer, Greg and I left Lawrence Street. I can't believe I didn't take a photo of the wonderfully packed van, shameful. So here is a nerdy photo of me and my last few minutes in Halifax:

With a pee break in Salsbury I couldn't resist not having my photo taken with the silver fox (Greg was much too cool to pose):

We arrived around 12:30, met the landlord and I saw my apartment for the first time! After emptying the van, the apartment looked like this:

Main Room: Bed & Living Room

The kitchen with lots of stuff everywhere!

I managed to get things kind of together on Wednesday and last night, but it's been SO hot with the impending doom of a hurricane that I've been uncharacteristically unmotivated.

 Most things have their home now but I will take a few 'moved in photos' tomorrow to share.

Moving Update

I made it! Me and my belongings are in my new apartment in Fredericton, although it seemed like a lot in the mini van it came here in, it doesn't look like too much spread out over an apartment!

I will be posting photos of the move...well mostly my new place soon. It seems that I have a pesky little thing called school to attend today and tomorrow which will keep me busy.

Updates to come!

Consumption Saturday

Three more 'Must Do's" were checked off my list yesterday, and they made for a day full of consumption!

After hitting up the Seaport Market one last time Greg and I hopped on the ferry to Dartmouth and made our way to Two If By Sea (CHECK!) to eat the most incredible, rich, filling croissants of all time! Their coffee was also pretty tasty:

Check out the SIZE of that croissant!
Greg and I really should have shared...lesson learned.

I agree.

This is the building that Two If By Sea lives in, there is also a restaurant, Nectar Social House, which I've heard good things about. (Warning, there is very cheesy music on the Nectar website - I just though I would warn you before you go clicking all over the place).

Founders Corner

To walk off the GIANT croissant we wandered around Dartmouth - another CHECK!

Hilarious!

I didn't know there was a large Irish population in Dartmouth,
there must be if there's a sign like this right?

A look up Queen Street

An awesome (large) fish in the window of Oceanic Art
on Queen Street.

Back down at the Dartmouth Waterfront, just about to go into
the ferry terminal. There's a nice little park just to the right
heading towards the water.

Back to Halifax, on Lower Water Street just outside of
Historic Properties, they are still taking old buildings down.

Little and old vs. TALL and new

After a nice (and necessarily small due to the large croissant hanging out in my tummy) lunch with Greg and his family I spent the afternoon packing up more of my apartment which isn't on my Must Do list, but is definitely a Must Do.

Finally, dinner at the Brooklyn Warehouse (CHECK!), we wanted to go on Friday night but since it was the last day of camp I didn't get home until pretty late. So we made it - hooray!

I really wanted to try their Arctic Char dish with risotto but it had cheese in it - sigh. So I went for Halibut instead ... which I seem to keep confusing with Haddock - they both start with H? I also had their Brooklyn Dark beer which is a blend of Propeller Honey Wheat and Porter, it was AWESOME! One of those dangerously easy to drink beers:

                                               

And since we had a starter as well I was pretty full by the time I got to the end of my meal. Thankfully Greg could lend a hand, making sure things didn't go to waste:

I'm pretty sure that I'm still full from all of that eating, but it was well worth it.

Thank you Halifax & Dartmouth!

Last, Last Day of Camp

After 4 summers of working with awesome individuals at SuperNOVA I'm happy that my last, last day of camp was an awesome one. Things went smoothly, kids left earlier than early, the team worked together as they have been for the past four months and things came together with pizza, cake, awards and a sing-a-long (Smash Mouth and Britney Spears among the songs).

It's flown by, but this has been hands down the best summer ever!

The team minus 2 with the "We Made Friends With Science" cake!

The team (again minus 2) but this time with Mara and I !

Note the medals the staff are wearing around their necks -  I have a post coming soon with the details of their creation!

Like I said, it was an awesome summer, an awesome day and I even received AMAZINGLY thoughtful presents from the team.

BEST SUMMER EVER!