This past December, a new festival came to Halifax called the Evergreen Festival. The Facebook page about tab says 'Community comes alive with music, light and joy. Evergreen Festival is a new holiday festival on the Halifax waterfront, throughout downtown, and online.' Just like almost everything in 2020, the event planners were forced to put a portion of the festival online so I didn't experience as much of it as I wanted to.  There was a virtual market with local businesse

Completed: August 21, 2020  This is a continuation to last week's blog as the 2017 trip made for a long post. Here I'll share about the other two.  2018 High-tide at Burntcoat Our next trip was for just as long and just as busy. We had our vacation booked for August 9 to August 19 in 2018. Mom and I visited some places we already had but we also travelled to some new areas of Nova Scotia. In 2017, we went to Burntcoat Head at low tide so for this trip we wanted to go back but

Completed: August 21, 2020 This is really something that is ongoing but I spent three summer vacations concentrating on exploring as much of my province as I could so I am saying this item is complete.  I have wanted to explore my own province for a while and in 2017, we finally dedicated time to doing it. I had done some travelling around Nova Scotia as my grandparents live in Annapolis Royal and New Minas and I played Ringette growing up so I was pretty familiar with the Ha

I was really looking forward to participating in Burger Week 2020 but because of the pandemic they had to postpone it from March and were finally able to put it on in October. This was the 8th edition with over 140 restaurant locations selling burgs. According to the website 'it is a city-wide burger-eating phenomenon and fundraiser for Feed Nova Scotia put on by The Coast. Creative burger offerings either have a set price of $6, or a higher price with the restaurant making a