Arrival in Halifax

Hello everyone!
I successfully arrived in Halifax, Nova Scotia earlier this afternoon!  I met up with one of my roommates for the night, Janae, and we took the shuttle (which was completely full of Semester at Sea kids) from the airport to our hotel.  The city was just crawling with students here for Semester at Sea and you could just see all the little clusters of people walking around and exploring. When we went to check in we were informed that there were no rooms ready yet and that we should check back later when they would all be clean.  So we stored our luggage at the desk and went over to mingle with a group of 4 kids who were hanging out in the lobby of the hotel.  It was great to start meeting a bunch of people and everyone around is here for Semester at Sea so there is always something to talk about.  Anyway, the group we were talking to was headed to the Citadel (which I had no idea what is was, but when we got there I saw was some sort of important historical site that I should probably google).  So we walked to the Citadel and looked around inside - it is just like a big military fortress and there was a Canadian military museum inside also.  It was pretty cool and I already took lots of pictures!  Then we continued to walk through the city to the Public Garden which is just a huge garden that is so gorgeous with trees, flowers, and fountains.  It was clearly smaller that Central Park, but I definitely thought it was prettier.  We spent some time wandering around the garden and found out that there were actually a lot of people out enjoying the beautiful weather since it was Canadian Earth Day!  After the garden we decided to walk down to the water to see our Semester at Sea ship which looked awesome - I can't wait to board tomorrow!  We continued to walk down a cute boardwalk area with restaurants and ended up eating at a pizza place that was really yummy.  Then we all headed back to our hotel - Janae and I really needed showers and a nap!  When we got back to the hotel we tried to check in and apparently they only had one room with a king size bed - but we had 3 people staying the night.  I asked what he suggested we do, and they happenned to have one more rollaway bed left in the hotel which they sent up to our room.  And the best part is that our room is kind of an upgrade because we are on the top floor (the special floor that you need to have a key to swipe into) which also includes a free breakfast for tomorrow morning that is only avaliable to guests on the 6th floor!  I feel pretty cool, haha, and I'm glad that the lack of rooms ended up turning out to be great!  I'm looking forward to meeting more people tonight and then boarding the ship tomorrow!