Pictures from Lehi

View from Darwin's Back Yard

Lehi, Utah

Well, here we are in Utah and I didn't bring the cord to download pictures from the camera. This will be the thousand word method.

Sue-anne, Langley and Carter arrived in Lethbridge at 6:50 on Tuesday morning and we spent the day traveling to Utah. It rained a bit as we drove along. It was green, green, green in Montana. I don't think I have ever seen the hills so green there. We stopped for lunch at Subway in Dillon and stopped for gas at Ulm and Pocatello and arrived in Lehi by 8:00 p.m.

Wednesday was a beautiful day and we went out walking. The five children had a water fight in the afternoon. Everyone but me went to Cabellas to look at the fish after supper.

Langley and Carter's main objective (well other than visiting with their Uncle, Aunt and cousins and riding for twelve boring hours with their grandparents) was to go to "The Hatch Family Chocolate L.L.C.". Apparently it has something to do with a TV show (The Little Chocolatiers). We arrived there within minutes of the 11:00 a.m. opening and got in line to buy hand dipped chocolates. Langley thought the chocololates were the best she had ever tasted, but they didn't hold a candle to Tara's chocolates. Carter was quite disappointed that Steve and Katie from the TV series were not there. Was the company named after Bob's great-grandmother, Arabelle Jane Hatch?

The chocolate shop was in downtown Salt Lake, so we were very close to the Family History Library and it was the first time I didn't start drooling as we got near it. I remember the many thousands of hours that I sat in front of a microfilm reader winding through a film. It doesn't compare to finding original documents on the web, so I don't have much need to go to the Library anymore.

Another objective that Carter and Langley had was to go to "Five Guys, Burgers and Fries", so we met Darwin there for lunch. If you like 'loud' that was the place to go. The burgers were good though.

We did a little shopping before we came home. Bob and I each bought a pair of shoes. Amber tells me my shoes are "in"!

Home in Lethbridge

We left Halifax early on Saturday morning (7:45 a.m. Halifax time but 4:45 Lethbridge time). Edward, Miranda and the boys picked us up at the airport and we went out to the CrossIron Mall north of the city. We wandered around the Bass Sports shop and looked at the fish and stuffed animals and the boys tried their luck at the shooting gallery.

Stoney Road is the beginning of a new ring road around Calgary and we went back to the south part of the city on it. Edward took us out for dinner in honour of mother's day and then we drove back to Lethbridge.

During our absence a couple of storms blew through Lethbridge. Our plants looked rather battered but they did survive. The tulips are in bloom and our first Iris of the season is blooming. It has been cloudy with showers since we returned.

Our Last Day in Nova Scotia

Today Nathan was off work and Orson and Liam had a p-day so we thought we would drive to the Bay of Fundy. Orson didn't want to go on a "boring" drive, so he arranged to stay with a friend for the day. It would have been a lovely day - except for the howling wind.

The drive was beautiful with the trees in leaf and some trees in bloom. There were lots of white blossoms, a few pinks, and even a tree covered with purple flowers. To add colour to the mix there were numerous bushes with bright yellow leaves. I don't have any idea what the name of the plant was.

We drove along the shore of the Minas Basin part of the Bay of Fundy. We stopped at Cheverie and could hardly open the door because of the wind. The water was rust coloured and the tide was coming in.



It was too windy to stay long. Our next stop was Walton. It claimed that the Minas Basin had the world's highest tides, although they didn't look that high to me. It also claimed that Walton was the home to the richest and largest deposit of Barite in the world. By the way, what is barite?

The tide was getting closer while we were at Walton.

Hold on to your hat!

We visited the Walton lighthouse - a rather small wooden structure.

View from the Lighthouse

We didn't hang around long to enjoy the wind. We continued back along the Basin and then cut across country to the Halifax highway. The country was more open and there were less trees this way.

We stopped at Elmsdale Subway for lunch and got back to Dartmouth at an early hour.

Another Day in Nova Scotia

This morning we woke up to beautiful blue skies for the third day in a row and there was no wind. It was the first day I wore shorts. After lunch the wind started to blow. We drove to the ferry that crosses the harbour from Dartmouth to Halifax. By the time we were on the ferry the sky had clouded over.

When we got to Halifax we walked to Nova Scotia Mall and did a bit of shopping and then went and walked along the boardwalk along the harbour. We had a brisk sea breeze to accompany us as we walked.

We could see St. George's Island from the boardwalk. This is where deportees (such as the Acadians) were imprisoned until ships came to haul them away.

We could see across the harbour to the Esso Refinery.

We returned to the ferry terminal in the rain. By the time Liam had to go to play soccer it was raining pretty good.

A Little Windy but Blue Skies

Today we woke up to beautiful blue sky and the temperature went up to 20 degrees Celsius. However, as the day went by more and more white clouds appeared. It was quite windy. Tara thinks the Halifax area has as much wind as Southern Alberta.

We drove to downtown Halifax and picked up Nathan at noon and went to Mexico Lindos for dinner and then we went to Point Pleasant National Park. It is a nature preserve on the end of The Penninsula and thus is surrounded on three sides by water. Many people in the area complain that the park is not as nice as it was before Hurricane Juan.

Most of the park was an off-leash area for dogs and we saw dogs. Most of them were great big types. Apparently people in the area like their dogs.

There are still some of the defense fortifications that were built to protect the harbour. The following picture shows the Prince of Wales Tower - not very high as towers go, but they could see out over the harbour from it.

The Cambridge Battery

We could see barges floating down the Northwest Arm (of the Halifax Harbour).







We sat on a bench and watched out over the Northwest Arm to where it joined the main part of the Halifax Harbour.

No Snow in Nova Scoltia

On April 23 - 25th I was in Calgary with Jeremy's family. There was snow in Calgary on Saturday evening. On Sunday evening I went back to Lethbridge to help with a family history class and on Tuesday morning we went back to Calgary and caught a noon flight to Halifax where Nathan picked us up.

It has been cloudy and rainy most of the time we have been here but there has been the occasional glimpse of blue sky. Bob has taken Keaton out for walks most days that we have been here, but I have only been out of the house twice since we have been here. Bob and Nathan spent time on Friday looking for a good used car for Nathan.

On Friday afternoon we went out for a drive through Eastern Passage.

Today Liam and Keaton were coughing and so I stayed home from church with them, but late in the afternoon we went for a walk on the Salt Marsh Trail.

The Salt Marsh trail follows an old train bed. It goes through the woods and over the Cole Harbour. If you click on the sign below you can read all about the railway.

There were a lot of fallen trees along the way. Apparently they were from the aftermath of the storm following Hurricane Juan. They call it White Juan here.

Liam really enjoys the scenery.