a glimpse of sharon world...

east coast 2006



last friday we returned from our trip to canada's east coast. i've visited western canada before, and i live in central canada, but this was the first time i had ever been to the eastern side. we flew into halifax, rented a car and visited three provinces (Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island) in eight days. despite the fact that the all the maritimes provinces we visited were really boonie (even the bigger cities), there were still a lot of things to do, and a lot of things to see.

i don't know why, but for some reason i was really surprised at how many trees there were there. as we were landing in halifax i looked out the airplane window and, i kid you not, all i saw were trees. so. much. green. so. much. nature.

even though at times some maritimers were on the verge of being annoyingly slow (not necessarily dumb, but they just did things so slooooowly), most of them were really nice and friendly. we met a few people who were from ontario as well, and saw license plates on vehicles from all over canada and the states. there was even a biker posse from BC which had rode, literally, across canada.

one thing i really respect about maritimers is their need/desire to be environmentally friendly. seriously, they put toronto's green bins to shame. almost everywhere (including fast food restaurants) people are expected to separate their waste into compost, recycling, and trash, and while there are those kinds of things going on in toronto, people in the east actually threw their things in the right places. haha. :P as a result, everything there is generally much cleaner; the air is cleaner, there isn't as much garbage everywhere, there's minimal to no litter in the atlantic (that i could see)...the list goes on. even the hotels are in on the whole green power thing; they asked you to reuse your towels twice (although i'm not sure if its because they want to be environmentally cautious, or if they're just cheap. haha.)

anyway, this trip was a great trip and i had a really good time. yah i miss the beatiful huge eastern skies and sunsets, and the fact that you could see the ocean out the car window, but at the end of the day there's no place like home.

highlights of the trip:
- going to cavendish, PEI and seeing the REAL green gables (omg. i looooove anne of green gables)
- seeing Anne of Green Gables the musical in charlottetown
- going to my first (and second) ceilidh in cape breton. awesome, awesome music.

...there were a lot more things that we did that i liked, but those were my top three. :)

pictures from our east coast trip can be found here.