Day 6: Halifax, NS.
This is our last port day, and we awakened around 10 am local time. Although my watch is set to “Greenwich Village Mean Time” (my way of saying Eastern Time), my cell phone reads Atlantic Savings Time. When we cross back into American waters tomorrow, we will be back in Eastern Daylight time, and then when we get home, we will set our clocks back another hour for “Standard” time. This setting of the clocks is a big pain in the ass.
RQS and I had no plans for the day, save to get off the ship and explore the Pier 21 Museum. (Pier 21 is Canada’s answer to America’s Ellis Island, and Canada dealt with many of the same immigration issues as we did South of the border.) So we got dressed, had “breakfast”, and off the ship by 12:30 pm. This gave us the time to make the museum by 1:00 pm and participate in a guided tour.
After the museum, we decided to walk the shore front and get our walking in. After we got to a group of kiosks selling food, we decided to have some ice cream before turning back to the ship. But first, it was a chance to see a ship under restoration and to see some kids playing on a sculpture meant to look like a ocean wave.
Once on the ship, we had a late lunch, then rested before dinner. Sadly, our choice of dinner venue was a mistake. On NCL’s larger ships, there are 3 main complementary dining rooms. And we chose the one we in which we last had a pleasant meal. Not only did we get ignored after ordering our iced teas, but we had to speak with another person on the staff to get our iced teas. And then, we had to ask for spoons to stir sugar in our teas - something that was a running joke between us on our last cruise. Fortunately, the rest of the meal went OK, as our server was supervised by his next in command.
