Wednesday, July 08, 2009

Halifax, Nova Scotia






















We visited Terry’s cousin, Trevor Hole who lives near Halifax on Monday, July 6. He is the son of Sylvia Miller Hole Daradick from High Level, Alberta, Canada. Trevor lives with his wife, Leslie and children Avery Rine Hole, aged 41/2 and Carson Darcy Hole who is twenty-one months old. Since Trevor is working the night shift at a Michelin tire plant, we visited in the morning and didn’t get to see the family. I took a photo of a picture of the children.

I think that Trevor and his cousin, Terry Miller from Edmonton, look enough alike to be brothers rather than cousins. They have the same slim body style, brown eyes and beautiful smile. The picture of my husband Terry and his cousin with the same name was taken a couple of years ago. What do you think? Do Terry and Trevor look alike?

After we ate lunch, Trevor was our guide around the Dartmouth area bays and coves. The bridge behind him is the MacDonald Bridge, which leads to Halifax. You pay a $.75 to cross the bridge or use a pass. Guess what they call the pass? Right. It’s a MacPass. They have a MacDonald’s in town that sells MacLobster.

Monday evening we went to the “Royal Nova Scotia International Tattoo, which was held in the Metro Stadium in Halifax. The building has a large open floor that hockey teams use in competition. What’s a tattoo? It is music performed by marching bands from Sweden, Copenhagen, Germany and Wales, massed choirs from Nova Scotia, bag pipers in kilts, and American fifes and drums. It included competition in a Canadian Forces Obstacle race and military teams racing to dismantle and put jeeps back together. There was a German Police Motorcycle team who had as many as 17 people on 3 motorcycles on pyramids racing around on the floorshow and a Paris Police Gymnastic team. Dancing included many styles of tap and toe dancing to popular and classical music. I’ve never seen anything like this fast paced action program with unbelievable choreography. It is a night that I will always remember. Photos were not allowed.

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