Another hotel room

Hi this is Annette, just a quick blog, as David and Sam are both asleep.
We are in Halifax today, the weather was way better than New Brunswick, about 23c.  We had about a three hour drive this morning and the hotel is situated in a great location, near tons and tons of stores.  As we are doing research on things we need to purchase for the house it has worked out well.  We went to Costco, and saw great stuff but how do you get it home, they do not deliver and frankly even if they helped us in the trailer with some of it there is no way we would be able to unload when we get the other end.  So we went to Ashley Furniture which has a no tax and a no delivery fee on at the moment and found a chest of drawers that will work for a good price, when we come back on Sunday to get Sarah we will have measured and then we can order it for delivery.
David and I were talking today in the car and there is no way we would do this journey across the country again.  It has been an experience but very time consuming and very costly, to date with food, gas, and accommodations we are sitting at over $3,000.00.  We could have shipped the car and flew for that money, but like I said it was an experience and an adventure.
Talking about shipping of vehicles we picked up the Mazda today, as luck would have it, the place it arrived at was just up the highway from here so it was easy to get it.  Tomorrow after signing documents with the lawyer we will both go to Mahone Bay and stay for 2 nights before taking possession.  The actual possession date will be Friday with all of our furniture arriving on Saturday.  That is what is planned anyway.
Sammy is ready to get out of the car for good and get home, every day he is more and more reluctant about getting in the car, poor boy, we know how he feels.
Along our route we have noticed the most strange road kills, lots and lots of racoons, and porcupines, and some that frankly look like large rats......  I fear for my dog and hope against hope that we do not have porcupines on our land, or racoons come to that and I don't even want to think about the rat possibility.   
The other observation is that though drivers out here are polite, and let you cross or cut in (Calgary used to be like that), they use their honks a lot.  They sound them to either say hello to each other if they know someone or to sound off if they are displeased, or just seem to like blasting their horns at each other, very strange.  Everyone is friendly though and we are already enjoying the laid back no fuss no rush kind of way of the Maritimes. 
Just watched Harry Potters last movie as I want to catch the last one that is due out here July 15th.  So thought we had better see the first half, I liked it and know have to say goodnight to everyone.  We are now 3 hours ahead of Calgary time and 4 hours ahead of UK time.  It is now 11pm NS time so it is good night from us here in NS.  xxx