SoCo and lemonade please

Ok, so another eventful week has passed. I've finished my midterms, for now at least, made essentially no progress with my project and seen my Mum as she flew out to visit me.
Having my Mum here has two main advantages: one, she has a hire car and two, free food. So over this weekend I have been taking advantage of these things, the food is probably the better of the two as cafeteria food can become rather monotonous, so the baby back ribs where wonderful, made even better by the fact the rack was larger than the plate. Also had the pleasure of finding somewhere that does bottomless lasagne on sundays for $7, this was after 3 hours training and through some careful restraint I only had 3 plates. The getting to see other places has also been good, went to a beach just outside Halifax on Saturday, which was very pretty, essentially sea then right next to it pine trees and some maple trees in various stages of colour, so a wonderful patchwork of green, yellow, orange and red. It was however really rather windy, could just about still walk in a straight line. Yesterday I finally made my way to Point Pleasant Park, which is right at the south of Halifax, essentially it's a wooded area with some old British forts next to the sea. It's very pretty and helped to prevent the French and Americans from taking the port, so really it's quite a marvellous place. The wandering was sadly cut short by a quantum mechanics assignment, involved lots of head scratching and googling. Also I'm afraid there are no pictures of either of these excursions as I forgot to take a camera with me both days.
On Saturday I managed to meet my first unhelpful Canadians. While at a bar and hungry we attempted to buy some food, only to be told that we could not order food without a table and a chair, the place was packed and no-one looked like leaving. So after some time we managed to find a chair and sat up by a bar, asked to order food only to be told that the kitchen was closing so we couldn't get any. We left, and I got a Subway.
I also introduced some Canadians to Southern Comfort, and elicited some incredulous looks and half finished confused attempts at sentences by calling Sprite "lemonade", I know revolutionary.