Day 5: Prince Edward Island, PEI: Charlotte town and Cavendish beach and Moncton,NB: Moncton casino, NB

We just went by Charlottetown this morning. It took 3 hours driving from Halifax. This is a small town and it doesn't have many activities that we could join. We just walked around downtown and along the river to take few pictures (and to prove that we did come by :)

We did go shopping for gifts and souvenirs. We bought one T-shirt for my sister and one sweater for Mr.Hai's nephew. We also found two unique T-shirts of PEI for my parents-in-law. These T-shirts are dyed by the dust from the dune of PEI which is a red-yellowish ;)

The T-shirts we bought for my sister is so interesting as it will change the colors after being explosed to the Sun. It is cool right, isn't it?

After walking around, hubby took me to the World's best ice-cream place. The ice-cream was made freshly everyday from cow-milk, also the ice cream cones were home-made based on every order.

Next, we headed to Cavendish beach which has one of the must see "sand dune". The following pictures are of the Carvendish beach. Because it was free admission after 6PM, we had to go around to kill time :(

Hubby drove to one small shopping place. At there, hubby was very interesting in shooting game which was set up by a men living in the Carvendish area. It only costs 50 cents for 20 shoots. What a pretty cheap game. I and my hubby were wondering how could that owner survive with this game as there were not too many visitors coming by this small shopping place.

Hubby found hard to drive in night time and he was so stress. I myself couldn't sleep either, I tried to stay with hubby and watch the street for him. Finally, we arrived to Moncton city at 10PM and went to Boston pizza for dinner right away. Wow, this is the first time I tried New York steak with Caesar salad and garlic toasted bread. The price is so good (only $13.99 for 8oz steak) and the food is delicous. Hubby was satisfied with his Royal 8 inches pizza also.

Then, we went to check in hotel. And the receptionist said that we were the last people checking in :), cheese......

We did come by Moncton casino which is newly built and opened in spring this year. We had to agree that Gatineau casino is still the fanciest one among the casinoes we have visited. We played some Blackjack games which has a minimum bet of $5 and $10 only. I won and lost some, and by the time we decided to all-in $20 we had, then we won a Blackjack with the reward $30. Overall we lost $40 but getting free parking. We were still lucky as we saw that a Canadian girl lost a lot of money on Black Jack games. Poor that girl.

Then, it was too late already, we went back to the hotel and prepared in order to check-out early for a trip tomorrow.

Day 4: Halifax, NS: Peggy Cove Lighthouse; fancy 4 stars hotel; beautiful Public garden and nice Nova Scotia casino.

Peggy Cove is the most photographed lighthouse in Nova Scotia. Hubby was complaining about driving (it took a hour to get there from Darthmouth,Halifax). But when we arrived there, hubby changed his mind and turned to be so happy to see the beautiful scenery. And he totally agreed that the drive was worth. There were so many tourists coming by also.

We did take a lot of pictures of the rocks and the lighthouse. We also bought one souvernir which is a ceramic plate on which is printed with the picture of some places must go in Nova Scotia.

After the lighthouse, we came by the memorial place where the Swiss flight 111 dropped down and led to 239 death. It was a very peaceful and nice place to look down the beach and recall the accident.

Then, we drove back to Darthmouth for lunch. We went to the only Vietnamese restaurant in Darthmouth (according to GPS). It was the worst Vietnamese restaurant we've ever come. The meats weren't cooked well and the head of the bean sprout turned to greenish already (which implied that the bean sprout was mould). I and hubby tried to take out some mould bean sprouts but we had to give up and couldn't finish the noodles soup (the chef was putting the bean spourts together into the soup; hichic :(

Next, we drove the hotel we booked by bidding on priceline.com. Amazingly, we had a room in a 4 stars hotel named Atlantica which is located in downtown Halifax. When we bid, we didn't think we could stay in a fancy hotel for that price (only $80 per night after taxes). We were the only young couple stayed in that fancy 4 stars hotel (I bet the other people had to pay a lot more than us, that's why we only met some middle aged and old people who are usually thought to be rich, or some teenagers going with their parents).Thanks to priceline.com, cheers :)

I knew that we should have another lobster dinner as long as we were still in Halifax. But I had been missed rice for 2 days already, then we went to Thai restaurant for dinner.
We stopped by Public Garden on the way. The garden were about to be closed in 15 minutes. That short walk made us feel relaxed and enjoyed looking at the beautiful flowers and admired the tree-planters for their talents by mixed the flowers in the beautiful way.

The Thai restaurant is hardly found as it doesn't have any flashing sign outside the restaurant. The GPS helped us to find it. The interior decoration brought us a warmful welcome. And we totally agreed that this restaurant is highly recommended on-line as we had a very delicious dinner.

After a good dinner, we went back to hotel and had a very good sleep. Cheers ;)

Day 3: Moncton,NB: Hopewell Rock - Dartmouth,NS: Halifax harbor and Nova Scotia casino

After a bad night in the horrible motel, we left Federicton early and drove to Moncton city,NB.

We came by one of the top 10 must-see scenario of Canada: the Hopewell rock. We were lucky to get there early enough to walk on the rock as this is a low tide time. It was so amazing that after an hour, we recognized that we were walking below the water as the tides rose very rapidly.

I couldn't find any word to describe this beautiful place, the following pictures would bring the images of the place in the low tide time.

On the way back to Nova Scotia, we stopped by one side of the river to take few pictures of sky line downtown Moncton city.

And finally, we arrived to Halifax which is our aimed destination of the honeymoon. And lucky us, we got the harbor view room with a nice balcony to look out. Hubby did enjoy much by getting up early on the next day and practised Taichi (I guess by the time hubby is retired, he's gonna contribute his time for Taichi for sure ;)

As we heard that Lobster is very famous in Halifax, then we went to one seafood restaurant located in downtown after checking some on-line reviews. Hubby called to check out the hours and we had to rush as they closed at 9:30. Since we got there, we found out that they closed the door at 9:30PM, but we still could stay there as long as we wanted (it was funny that hubby kept saying that we had to finish the dinner by 9:30PM also, otherwise we would be locked in the restaurant :)

As this is a fancy restaurant, I dressed up a bit and took some pictures of the restaurant also. Smile~.
I also posted some pictures of what we ate on that night: a huge lobster 1.5lb which I finished it by myself; and hubby finished the 10 oz steak.

As we ate too much, we decided to walk around the harbor a bit. It was a late night already, hence we couldn't see the harbor and people; but we planned to be back tomorrow afternoon to join in the one-hour harbor tour.

 On the way back to the hotel, we came by Nova Scotia casino. This casino is small but is well-organized. It is divided into many sections: pennies section, nickel-section, dime-section, and loonie-section. It also has some playing table. We played some Black Jack. We did loose some and win some. It was an enjoyable night.

Overall, we love Halifax and for sure we'll be back in one day.