Baymule
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What a disappointment! 
Their menu lied to you! 
No Lamb! 
Their menu lied to you! No Lamb! 
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Bruce
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Yes but not the same! I'm looking for chops, leg or rack. Not lamb cooked into something else.Sorry you didn't get to have lamb at the restaurant you have chosen. I know you were looking forward to it.
Maybe look for an Indian restaurant, they almost always have lamb on the menu.
Safe travels!
RollingAcres
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I understand.
So any chance of looking for a restaurant with lamb on the menu on the returning route?
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Bruce
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Not that I know of.
DD liked Mt. A (which seems to be what everyone we've talked to in NB and NS call it). Small town of 5.5K (with a gluten free bakery), school population ~2,300. School has what she wants and seem to be very accommodating of her "odd status" being 25 so 7 years out of HS and with a few CC courses in the last year. The fact that she looks much closer to 18 than 25 won't hurt wherever she goes as a freshman. She's hoping for January.
Dorm rooms are decent, all have 3ish cu ft mini fridges and (amazingly) free washers and dryers. DD2 got LOTS of quarters for Christmas when she was at Beloit, I think it was $2/wash and $2/dry though she could get 2 washer loads in one dryer. Food service seems to be accommodating of different dietary requirements/desires. Campus smallish but nice. Oldest building is the original women's dorm. The guide kept calling it the "Old Lady's Hall" though I think she was REALLY trying to say the old "Ladies' hall"
needed a slight pause in that phrase.
Interesting factoid:
"May 25, 1875
Grace Annie Lockhart becomes the first woman in the British Empire to receive a Bachelor degree when she graduates with her BSc "
There is a waterfowl park right nearby that we walked through. Nice place for a bit of exercise and relaxation. Pictures later. The dorms are above the bigger street, all other building below. The smaller buildings on the lower right are not part of the campus but the gluten free bakery is one of them.
DD said it is a "Maple League" school, which apparently is the Canadian equivalent of our Ivy League schools. She told the registration advisor (Mt. A grad from about 8 years ago) that she was bored with the CC courses and wanted a challenge. Advisor said Mt. A would be good for that. Not concerned that she didn't take the SAT or ACT because Canadian colleges don't care about such standardized testing. Also not concerned that her senior year transcript will have P/F (all P) instead of number grades. Happy with the 4.0 on the CC courses. So this school is still on the definitely possible list. I gather there are a few in Ontario she might be interested in as well though they have not been visited.
Went to see St. Mary's in Halifax today. 6,400 students in a city of 440K. Very compact campus surrounded by homes and trees, a couple of kilometers from the more congested parts of Halifax. But ... SMALL dorm rooms, there are 4 buildings 4 stories high (with shared kitchens), one 22 story with 2 stairwells and 4 elevators and one 20 story with NO elevators at all. Almost all the buildings are connected so you pretty much never go outside which could be nice in foul weather but seems claustrophobic, like the dorm rooms. Lots of stairs to get around places since the ground the buildings are on isn't flat.
The dorms are everything between the 2 towers (inclusive) at the bottom.
DD has written it off.
We did find a nice restaurant called Morris East in Bedford, near the B&B where we are staying. B&B host recommended it last night after we told him all of DD's dietary restrictions. They have a gluten free pizza crust and even a gluten free tart shell (both cost more than regular of course). Last night I couldn't decide between the Spaghetti Bolognese and the lemon chicken. Went with the chicken, it was good. DD had half her 9" pizza left (normal) which came back to the fridge in the room. DW had pizza, ate it all as is normal.
Wore DD out today with:
The morning plan is to check out here and go to the Bay of Fundy and see, best we can, the highest tides in the world then we go back to Sackville, NB. Don't know that DD has anything else she wants to see there but we planned it so she could if she wanted to. Will have breakfast Thursday at the gluten free bakery (where the baker is already planning to make sticky buns with no nuts at DD's request yesterday) then head down to Bangor, ME for the night.
DD liked Mt. A (which seems to be what everyone we've talked to in NB and NS call it). Small town of 5.5K (with a gluten free bakery), school population ~2,300. School has what she wants and seem to be very accommodating of her "odd status" being 25 so 7 years out of HS and with a few CC courses in the last year. The fact that she looks much closer to 18 than 25 won't hurt wherever she goes as a freshman. She's hoping for January.
Dorm rooms are decent, all have 3ish cu ft mini fridges and (amazingly) free washers and dryers. DD2 got LOTS of quarters for Christmas when she was at Beloit, I think it was $2/wash and $2/dry though she could get 2 washer loads in one dryer. Food service seems to be accommodating of different dietary requirements/desires. Campus smallish but nice. Oldest building is the original women's dorm. The guide kept calling it the "Old Lady's Hall" though I think she was REALLY trying to say the old "Ladies' hall"
needed a slight pause in that phrase.Interesting factoid:
"May 25, 1875
Grace Annie Lockhart becomes the first woman in the British Empire to receive a Bachelor degree when she graduates with her BSc "
There is a waterfowl park right nearby that we walked through. Nice place for a bit of exercise and relaxation. Pictures later. The dorms are above the bigger street, all other building below. The smaller buildings on the lower right are not part of the campus but the gluten free bakery is one of them.
DD said it is a "Maple League" school, which apparently is the Canadian equivalent of our Ivy League schools. She told the registration advisor (Mt. A grad from about 8 years ago) that she was bored with the CC courses and wanted a challenge. Advisor said Mt. A would be good for that. Not concerned that she didn't take the SAT or ACT because Canadian colleges don't care about such standardized testing. Also not concerned that her senior year transcript will have P/F (all P) instead of number grades. Happy with the 4.0 on the CC courses. So this school is still on the definitely possible list. I gather there are a few in Ontario she might be interested in as well though they have not been visited.
Went to see St. Mary's in Halifax today. 6,400 students in a city of 440K. Very compact campus surrounded by homes and trees, a couple of kilometers from the more congested parts of Halifax. But ... SMALL dorm rooms, there are 4 buildings 4 stories high (with shared kitchens), one 22 story with 2 stairwells and 4 elevators and one 20 story with NO elevators at all. Almost all the buildings are connected so you pretty much never go outside which could be nice in foul weather but seems claustrophobic, like the dorm rooms. Lots of stairs to get around places since the ground the buildings are on isn't flat.
The dorms are everything between the 2 towers (inclusive) at the bottom.
DD has written it off.
We did find a nice restaurant called Morris East in Bedford, near the B&B where we are staying. B&B host recommended it last night after we told him all of DD's dietary restrictions. They have a gluten free pizza crust and even a gluten free tart shell (both cost more than regular of course). Last night I couldn't decide between the Spaghetti Bolognese and the lemon chicken. Went with the chicken, it was good. DD had half her 9" pizza left (normal) which came back to the fridge in the room. DW had pizza, ate it all as is normal.
Wore DD out today with:
- St. Mary's tour
- Walk around the Point Pleasant Park (can post pictures later)
- Lunch
- Natural History Museum
- Walk around the Halifax Public Garden
The morning plan is to check out here and go to the Bay of Fundy and see, best we can, the highest tides in the world then we go back to Sackville, NB. Don't know that DD has anything else she wants to see there but we planned it so she could if she wanted to. Will have breakfast Thursday at the gluten free bakery (where the baker is already planning to make sticky buns with no nuts at DD's request yesterday) then head down to Bangor, ME for the night.
Baymule
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This sounds like it will be very good for her.
greybeard
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There will obviously be ups and downs in the Maple League’s progress. Each institution will play a crucial role in attracting students to invigorate the respective town, but working together through the Maple League will make it that much easier. Regardless of the university, Acadia, Mount Allison, St. FX, and Bishop’s all have so much to offer. They deliver on the promise of a solid liberal arts education and they provide the intimacy that so many larger schools lack. But if there’s one thing they do best, it’s that they ensure students aren’t just numbers. Students are the central focus of the institutions. They’re the poets, the scientists, the artists, the athletes, the singers, the mathematicians, the leaders, the writers, the activists, and the scholars that form the bedrock of each school. They are the future. The least these universities can do is help them make the best of it.
CntryBoy777
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Sure sounds like ya are having a good trip....and really busy, too....I can understand not wanting to got to the one with all those blame stairs....I got out of breath just thinking about them.....if I could get ya to do me a favor when ya get to Bangor I sure would appreciate it.....look kinda SE and give a wave towards Winter Harbor for me....haven't been up there since we moved back in '66.....
.....y'all be careful and enjoy the scenery.
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Bruce
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I've been to Bar Harbor twice but that was before I knew you, waving at Winter Harbor would have been a lot closer then!
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Bruce
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OK, looked up the Maple League colleges. She's already been to Bishop's (in Quebec a couple of hours from home) which is where she found out about Mt. A.), they have both Spanish and Japanese but it is physically impossible to add in ESL at Bishop's with the way their courses are set up.
St. Francis Xavier is in Nova Scotia, as is Acadia (in Wolfville, we will be going through there today!) but neither have Japanese. Guess that is why we aren't visiting them even though we are really close.
St. Francis Xavier is in Nova Scotia, as is Acadia (in Wolfville, we will be going through there today!) but neither have Japanese. Guess that is why we aren't visiting them even though we are really close.
RollingAcres
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Sounds like a good trip and sounds like both places would be great for her.
