Day 2 - Halifax, Nova Scotia 05/18/09, aka 'This is way more fun than last night'

Since we were expecting our luggage to be arriving in Halifax today, we didn’t plan on doing too much. (Not to mention due to the temperature being 15 degrees! Good thing we’re used to it.) I had at least wanted to check out the yarn store downtown, but after we got downtown and walked around until 15 minutes after most stores should have opened, we found out that it was Victoria Day in Canada, so none of the stores were open! We headed back to the ship for lunch and to wait for our luggage. (Pictured below, graffiti reads: This is way more fun than last night)
After lunch in the Lido we inquired about the luggage at the Front office. The gal said that it was expected to be arriving by plane at 3:00, then it had to be cleared and get to the pier before the gangway came up at 4:30! She said they really had to sweet talk some guy that morning to get it done. In the meantime while we were waiting, we had team trivia again with Jim and Linda. We got 14/20 right, still didn’t win! Some of the odd questions: a group of bananas is called a ‘hand’ not a ‘bunch’; to be considered empoloyed by the Mexican Gov’t, you only need to be scheduled for 1 hour a week. (Picture below: Walking to downtown Halifax on the boardwalk.)
After trivia it was getting close to time to leave port, and we still hadn’t heard about the luggage. We were getting a bit nervous, but they called with the good news around 4:35. We were so happy to have clean clothes!!
We got cleaned up and had dinner in the main dining room. We were sat with 3 other couples, two from CA and one from Holland/GA. We had a very talkative 3 hour dinner and left stuffed! (Pictured below, an awesome lobster statue. We call him Gooby the space lobster.)