Summer & Fall 2020 lists

Continuing my seasonal lists. With the pandemic right now, the original plans that we were going to do this year or hoping to do, had to change. We were planning on going to New Brunswick this summer but decided not to and explore even more of Nova Scotia. I had never been to the north shore so we made sure to check that off and while I had been to Yarmouth, it was just to pick up a car so we made our way down there too. 

Summer 2020 (June-September 21)
✓ Try a new food - On the way to Peggy's Cove, there's a restaurant called Cafe l'Acadie and I tried rappie pie bites. They don't look appealing but they were really good

Hike 4 new trails
✓ Go to a beach and have a swim - For most of my adult life, I haven't felt comfortable in my own body to go swim but we were going to supposedly the warmest waters north of the Caribbean so I decided to go. The water near Tatamagouche really aren't that warm. 
Read a new book
✓ Drive the lighthouse route - You can drive from Halifax to Yarmouth mostly on the old Highway 3 and it is now called the Lighthouse Route because of the many lighthouses on the shore
Lay under the stars
✓ Visit grandparents
✓ Participate in the EPIC Canadian - This is done every Canada Day (July 1st) and this year was done virtually. I did the normal route anyways
Take a road trip with friends
✓ Go to a museum
✓ Have a bonfire and s'mores
Watch the sunrise
Play mini-golf
✓ Visit a new ice cream spot
Do a random act of kindness
✓ Organize photos
✓ Have a picnic supper

Learn about another culture
✓ Check out 2 new waterfalls 

Pick blueberries
Go birdwatching
✓ Visit a town you haven't before 
✓ Try 3 new restaurants
Hang memorabilia in apartment

I didn't get to do as much this fall because of the protocols at some places and I didn't have as many free days as I thought I would. I wanted to take my friends' children to the corn maze & pumpkin patch but it didn't work out. 

Fall 2020 (September 22-November)
Visit a pumpkin patch
✓ Go on a hike - We drove two hours to Port Joli and went for a hike at Keji Seaside. I'm glad we waited to go in late September because I was still sweating. A beautiful hike and we saw some seals. 

Navigate a corn maze
✓ Have a Hallowe'en movie marathon
Visit the zoo
✓ Decorate for fall
Go apple picking
✓ Trick or treating
Go to a farmers market
✓ Have family over for dinner - They aren't actually family but I have know them since I was like 7 so basically. My mom's coworker and her mom came over to my apartment for dinner a week after Thanksgiving as we didn't celebrate together this year.
Burn a fall candle
✓ Eat Hallowe'en candy
Make a pot of chili
✓ Be thankful

Our meal on Thanksgiving day

Lay under the stars with a blanket
✓ Take a drive to see fall foliage
✓ Participate in Burger Week 2020 - Check that post here.