Quick March Break Trip to Halifax

Over our March Break a few weeks ago, we needed to make a quick trip to Halifax. We had an appointment at the US Consulate to take care of getting everyone's passports, so we decided to make a little over night family vacation out of it. We stayed at hotel with a family room that a nice little alcove with bunk beds for the big kids. We drove down in the afternoon and then went swimming and had supper before we all went to bed.

Our appointment was the following morning and after it was finished we went for a quick lunch and then visited the Discovery Center in their new location. It a great place, though a bit challenging to find. I hope their signage improves for the summer. Right now the only sign faces the wrong way on a one way street.

Joash had to get on the tractor, of course.

We enjoyed playing with the air station.

And I think the big hit was the electric circuit experiments in the innovation lab.

Overall, it was a good, but quick trip. While we were driving down, there was a blizzard warning issued for PEI, so we left in time to beat the blizzard home. And we were all a bit sick with a cold, but overall we had a good trip.

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