Just Walking in the Rain

We took the Northumberland ferry today from Digby NS to St John NB.  The sailing is 2hours and 15 minutes across the Bay of Fundy.  The ferry is much different than our BC ferries in many ways.  Apart from selling lobster rolls in the cafeteria, they also sell beer and wine.  The interior of the boat has lots of room for passengers to relax, including an area set up with monitors along each row of seats to watch a movie that is selected by one of the staff at the start of each sail, and a separate lounge for drivers of commercial vehicles.  I was amazed at the number and size of trucks that went on this vessel - many containing seafood.  Lobsters & scallops clearly identified on the graphics on the trucks.  The waters were choppy, but it was smooth sailing all the way.
The rainy weather has finally found us and what they may think is light rain in St John would be considered a downpour in Victoria.  But we are west coasters and a little rain didn't detour us from walking around downtown St John.  First stop the St John Arts Centre.  It was formally a library founded by Carnegie.  It has been well maintained over the years and still has the beautiful hand made tile floor in the foyer.  There are 5 exhibits of local artists.  (Photo available on Instagram)
From there we walked to the Halifax Public Market.  You know that you are in city that has to deal with a lot of snow when you are walking through the underground pedestrian walkways connecting one city block to the next.
St John is the end of the road for our solo road trip.  Today we were joined by my brother and sister-in-law.  We are leaving our rental car in St John and getting into the back seat of their Honda Accord.
In 1976 they were living in Moncton NB.  I had just finished university and they flew me East as a graduation gift.  We took a road trip that took us through New Brunswick, the Gaspe peninsula, Quebec City and onto Ottawa.  Over the next couple of days, it will be fun to take a trip down memory lane as we drive through New Brunswick to Quebec City and Ottawa.