It feels like we just uprooted ourselves, oh wait yeah we just did. Honestly, the roots here are not as deep as they were in California. Less time I suppose. Yet, today as I watched my daughter dance and follow the instructions of another, I had a little mistiness in my eyes. Becca has grown so much here. Ethan too, my gosh my baby is big! I have shrunk (34 lbs and counting), and suffered through the weirdness of this place. So leaving is bittersweet. I am very grateful that chances are, we will not be relocating again. Halifax will be home.

Becca, Ethan and I have been making our rounds, saying good bye to the people that so generously welcomed us into their community. It must be a sacrafice to open their world to strangers only to have them leave again. There are a lot of post-docs here so it happens often.

This place is such an anomaly.  How often are people placed on top of a mountain in the middle of nowhere? Top that with 90% of these people are hard core physicists, computer gurus and other intense science types. I had never met a “nuclear physicist” till we lived here. Now I have met six! Nerds are at every corner, and I am talking NERDS. Not geeks. I am a geek. Nerds that cannot make eye contact without getting nervous and sweaty. Thick glasses, heavy on the sunscreen, pants pulled up past their belly buttons, sun hats with the flaps to provide full protection. I kid you not. Then there are the grey haired, bearded, bumper sticker on their Subaru’s hippy like folks, intellects from the 60′ & 70’s, saving the planet one recycled can at a time. This is the birth place of the atomic bomb.  Many wives before me, sent their husbands off to “The Lab” becoming completely cut off from them. That is something I was not ready for. Universities are open by nature. I could pop by and see J anytime I wanted. Here. I have never seen his lab. I am a foreign national, never to have clearance to step foot there. This is something I will not miss.

Alas for now I will say my good byes. Three more sleeps in this country. It seems so surreal.

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