This morning was by far the worst part of the holiday and dropping Christine off at the airport to start her 32 hour journey home, left me sobbing for the next 3 days with such pain in my heart. She left such a big gap in our family with her departure. The poor kid has a long journey flying Halifax to Toronto to Amsterdam to Johannesburg. However, she negotiates flight connections well, so I was not worried about her making the trip. I did get a call at 2am on Thursday morning as her wallet had been stolen in Toronto airport, but she managed without it and at least her passport was still in her possession. She was really brave about the whole thing!
Having not yet seen downtown Halifax as we have been staying across the harbor in Dartmouth, we set out for the harbor bridge and a drive through downtown before going to the park for a walk along the beach. It is a pretty city which looks like the combination of a fishing village and city, with a large hill in the middle of it on which sits a citadel. This is the second largest natural harbor in the world and we walked along the harbor edge and the stone beaches getting our first look over the North Atlantic Ocean.
The evening’s activity was a good distraction from my heavy heart as we entered a massive ice hockey arena to watch the Nova Scotia International Tattoo. I have been looking out for a Tattoo our whole trip, hoping to see one somewhere. I saw the Edinburgh Military Tattoo when I was 9 years old and have never seen one again. It really was fantastic and for 3 hours we were treated to marching bands, piper bands, military bands, Acadian and Scottish dancers; jugglers; acrobats; the Paris Fire Department gymnastics display team; the Netherlands bicycle and unicycle team, the German Flying Grandpas trampoline team; military obstacle course races; navy fire drill teams; opera and pop singers and a massive choir including a children’s choir. There were 1200 participants and it was a phenomenal show which soon became one of the highlights of the trip.
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