Road Trip '13: Day 2

On our second day, mom and I woke up early to workout at the Goodlife right next to the hotel (this was so convenient!). I did a chest and triceps workout with 15 minutes of cardio, then headed back to the hotel room to have breakfast.

When I'm travelling I prefer to make my own breakfasts and eat at restaurants for lunch and dinner because I like having more time to sight-see and do activities in the mornings. So the previous night we picked up some groceries: cereal, berries, bananas, milk, and Greek yogurt. I also brought my own soy nut butter from home - it's the one and only food item that I always travel with!

After breakfast Hayley took us to Point Pleasant, which is a park with really nice trails for locals to walk, run, and bike. It was super windy while we were there, but we still got in a nice 4-5 km walk.

During our walk we worked up an appetite for lunch at The Coastal, a brunch spot that Hayley has been raving about. And I can see why - their menu is so creative and full of tempting options.

I had such a hard time deciding what to get, so I went for the first thing that popped out at me: the "Frooty Loops", which was a French toasted Montreal bagel topped with berries, almond hemp seed granola, citrus vanilla bean yogurt and maple syrup. Yum!

 

In the afternoon we drove out to Peggy's Cove, which is a pretty big tourist destination in Nova Scotia. It was neat to see!

After hopping all over those rocks and battling with the wind at Peggy's Cove, we relaxed back in Halifax at the Clay Cafe which is a little spot where you can paint your own pottery. My art skills are, ummm, a bit lacking to say the least, so I kept it simple and just painted a bowl since I knew I couldn't mess that up.

For dinner we headed next door to The Wasabi House for sushi. I ordered a seaweed salad, an Atlantic Roll (salmon, crab, shrimp, and cucumber) and a tuna roll. They also brought us out some complementary salmon nigiri sushi and mango!

I was impressed that they offered brown rice sushi, but unfortunately it was pretty dry and hard. The fish itself was great though! Sushi from Halifax is always amazing because it is so fresh.

 

And that concludes Day 2 because after dinner we pretty much just went back to the hotel room and crashed ha!

Do you ever bring or make your own meals when travelling or do you just eat all your meals out?

Are you artistic?

Road trip '13: Day 1

I'm baaaaack!

With a lot of stuff in tow:

Apparently we like to shop. And buy food. We may or may not have gone a little crazy buying American food products that we can't get in Canada. But those are stories for another post.

Today I'm going to start from the beginning: last Wednesday, when mom and I flew out to Halifax to meet up with Hayley. The first thing we did was check into The Lord Nelson, which was awesome! The rooms were really nice and they were very accommodating when we requested a mini fridge and some down pillows. Also it was right next to a Goodlife gym, which made it convenient to work out in the mornings. I highly recommend this hotel if you're ever in Halifax.

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Next the three of us headed out to dinner at Boneheads BBQ on Barrington Street, which we've been wanting to visit every since we saw it on an episode of You Gotta Eat Here.

It was really tiny and had a small menu - which is almost always a sign of a good restaurant in my experience. And this restaurant proved me right again. Hayley and I split the two meat BBQ plate with pulled pork, beef brisket, cornbread and a choice of two sides - we chose the BBQ baked beans and mac & cheese plus an extra side of salad to get in some greens.

The mac & cheese was my least favourite - I found it to be a bit gritty - but I loved everything else! The meat was tender and flavouful and everything BBQed meat should be. And the cornbread was not too sweet, not dry, and not at all crumbly. In other words: perfect. I loved the baked beans too.

It was a great first meal to kick off our trip. Afterward we walked downtown and then went back to the hotel room to rest up for our busy day on Thursday. I'll have a post about it up soon!

Have you ever been to Halifax?

What is your favourite kind of BBQ food?