Wedding In January
Posted on December 11, 2011 - Filed Under Health, Insurance, kids, Life, Travel, Weather | Leave a Comment
Canadians knows that January could be the worst time to travel but the spouse’s friend who lives in Toronto is having her wedding in January. They have been friends since they were in college and it’s only right that we attend her wedding since she won’t have relatives in Canada – you see she comes [...]
Read More..>>Summer Road Trips
Posted on July 11, 2011 - Filed Under Business, Finances, Life, shopping, Travel | Leave a Comment
Our extended family was down from Ontario for a visit with their RV – and they were down in Hectanooga at their lodge last weekend. This is a new RV that they had bought last year when rv financing was at its best rate – I too was tempted to get one – but because [...]
Read More..>>Smoke Store
Posted on May 19, 2011 - Filed Under shopping, This Town, Travel | Leave a Comment
We do have a smoke store in town – but I haven’t been in there yet – because from what I’ve heard they don’t really sell cigars or cigarettes like the humidor . The spouse always sends some cigars to her ex-boss from Spain every year for his birthday and I was hoping to get [...]
Read More..>>Attracting Customers To Come Downtown
Posted on May 16, 2011 - Filed Under Amused, Business, shopping, This Country, This Town, Travel | Leave a Comment
As you all know – downtown business are already having a hard time attracting people to come downtown to shop. Unlike in Japan where they have the street closed on the weekend in Harajuku where anyone and everyone can dress up in whatever ways they want – so people – from locals to tourists flocked [...]
Read More..>>No Ferry For Yarmouth For 2011
Posted on December 29, 2010 - Filed Under Business, Finances, Ranting, This Country, This Town, Travel | Leave a Comment
Although we were not directly affected by the loss of the ferry last year – we still feel lost and defeated with the news as soon as we got into the store today. Mr. Churchill announced on Facebook that there will be no ferry for 2011 – because no one had a sustainable plan nor [...]
Read More..>>An Early Christmas Gift From A Customer
Posted on December 6, 2010 - Filed Under Amused, Business, This Town, Travel | Leave a Comment
We received an early Christmas gift from a long time customer of ours – she just came back from New York on a business trip and because she knows we missed our Krispy Kreme donuts – she brought some and carried it all the way back from New York for us. How awesome is that! [...]
Read More..>>Cheap Hotel
Posted on November 20, 2010 - Filed Under Travel | Leave a Comment
Whenever we travel we use hotels.ca to find a good rate. A few people have recommended price line and from the sounds of it it’s also a good way to get a cheap place to stay. Unlike hotels.ca, you put a bid of what you want to pay and they find you a [...]
Read More..>>Support The Tourism Industry
Posted on January 28, 2010 - Filed Under Business, Life, This Town, Travel | Leave a Comment
If you are from Yarmouth or anywhere in Nova Scotia and can make it up to Halifax for the rally on Thursday Feb 4 at 10am – i urged you to go and support the people who are fighting to keep the Cat for another season. We at Gator Byte is not directly affected [...]
Read More..>>Finally a Short Vacation
Posted on July 15, 2009 - Filed Under Business, Travel | Leave a Comment
So after several years of getting shafted when it comes our turn to take a trip, we finally got out of town for a few days and went to Halifax. Normally we’d let the employees take their time off first, but then when it came time for us to take a break, they’d either [...]
Read More..>>Wireless Travel Gadgets
Posted on July 3, 2009 - Filed Under Electronics, gadgets, Travel | Leave a Comment
This summer we’re determined to get out of town at least a couple of times for short vacations. The first will be in a week or two, just a few days up in Halifax to get away, and then hopefully later in the summer we’ll get to go for a longer trip, maybe PEI [...]
Read More..>>For The Tourist
Posted on June 13, 2009 - Filed Under Business, This Town, Travel | Leave a Comment
We finally have some computers set up for the tourists this summer. For many years now we have been sending them to the library, but since we do have so many computers and monitors laying around the store why not put them to good use? It wouldn’t be as lucrative as the [...]
Read More..>>No Vacation in 6 years
Posted on April 1, 2009 - Filed Under Business, kids, Life, Travel | Leave a Comment
One way or another, we are taking some vacation time this summer! Something always comes up whenever we plan to take some time off, but this summer we are going somewhere, somehow, even if it means closing the store completely for a week. Most likely we’ll spend a few days in the Halifax [...]
Read More..>>New Mercedes-Benz GLK Coming to Canada
Posted on October 25, 2008 - Filed Under Life, News, shopping, Travel | Leave a Comment
Now that our current car is almost paid for it’ll soon be time to shop around for a second car. With the lil’ monster in school and the wife unable to drive a stick shift it would be more convenient at times to have something she can drive. Of course after watching that [...]
Read More..>>First Class Trip
Posted on September 30, 2008 - Filed Under kids, Life, school, Travel | 1 Comment
Not even 2 weeks into the school year and Chloe got to go on her first class trip already. The Wallace Brothers Apple farm was the destination, about 20 minutes out of town, so they all got to ride on the school bus. Both primary classes went together with several chaperons and had [...]
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