Image Thanks to Paul Mckinnon! (Check him out on MM and DA!)

If you live (or have lived) in Halifax, or the surrounding area, there’s no doubt in my mind that you quite often find yourself wondering how to cure your boredom.

This list started off as something I do every year before Summer comes to help me out. I always end up losing it and never using it, so this year I decided to put it online. Since most of the people that read this blog are my friends and family and are locals, I thought this might help you guys out as well.

If you have any other suggestions that I could add feel free to let me know!

Inside:

1. Clean your room. Lord knows it needs it.
2. Mini Putting.
3. Take after your Grandma and give Bingo a try.
4. Go out to dinner at a place you’ve never gone to before.
5. See what concerts are going to be playing in the next few weeks and pick one.
6. Learn to bake or cook something new.
7. Take turns cooking for your significant other.
8. Go to a movie.
9. Rent an entire season of a show you and a friend/significant other enjoy.
10. Go on a double date.
11. Clay Cafe.
12. See what’s going on at Neptune.
13. Play some card games. (Pass the Ace, Crazy 8′s.. and involve money).
14. Treat yourself to a day at a spa.
15. Play Scatergories or some other lame board game. It helps when you involve alcohol.
16. Have a Potluck BBQ.
17. Take a tour at the Keith’s Brewery.
18. Go to the Museum.
19. Go to the Boat Museum.
20. Go to the Discovery Center.
21. Check out Pier 21.
22. The Art Gallery.
23. Go check out some of the gorgeous churches we have.
24. If it’s a Sunday, go to the flea market.
25. Spend some money at the casino.
26. Visit some animals at the pet store.
27. Get a few (probably female) friends together at your house and tell them to bring clothes they don’t want and have a ‘swap’. Everything left over can go to charity.
28. Bowling. (I hate bowling.)
29. Karaoke.
30. Find a local pub with music/food/ drinks and just chill. I suggest Gus’ Pub.
31. Go find an old hotel (Like the Lord Nelson!) and take a friend that wants photos done and while nobody is looking use their gorgeous wallpapers and scenery.
32. Go visit some relatives you haven’t seen in a while.
33. Is it raining? Learn to knit. Or go online and find some other sort of craft you can do.
34. Volunteer at local SPCA or similar place.
35. If you want some local sing along music and a good time check out the Alehouse on the weekends.
36. You could try The Dome. But, … why?
37. Try taking some classes. Such as dancing!
38. Pretend to be a tourist for a day and hop on a Grey Hound bus tour.

Outside:

1. Go for a walk in Point Pleasent Park.
2. Go for a walk in the Hemlock Ravine.
3. Try and find some yard sales.
4. If you have one, find a new spot to take the dog for a walk.
5. Go camping.
6. Horse back riding.
7. Berry picking in the valley.
8. Go online and find some new local trails.
9. Have a cottage party.
10. Have a BBQ.
11. Go out and brush up on your photography skills.
12. Find some train tracks and walk them and see where they lead you.
13. Go whale watching.
14. Go on the harbour hopper.
15. Take a tour of Citadel Hill.
16. Explore York Redoubt.
17. Drive to the valley for the day and check out the bay of fundy and it’s lovely mud.
18. Go to the Zoo.
19. Go to the Wildlife Park.
20. Walk across the bridge during sunset.
21. Hike/Camp Cape Split.
22. Go Karting.
23. Give the cars a good washing, maybe involve a water fight.
24. Go to Ross Farm.
25. Keep driving until you are legitimately lost.
26. Test drive new cars.
27. Take advantage of some open houses.
28. Borrow someone’s kids for they day (they won’t mind).
29. Take the Ferry to dartmouth (during sunset!).
30. Take a drive to Lunenburg.
31. Do the Peggy’s Cove loop.
32. Try and find other lighthouses in NS.
33. Spend the day on McNab’s Island.
34. Get a bunch of friends together and look for an awesome restaurant a few hours away, then go find it.
35. Pick up a cheap frisbee and have a game.
36. Play some tackle Soccer.
37. Go walk around the Public Gardens.
38. Atlantic Playland. You forgot about that place, didn’t ya?
39. Watch the guys at Nova Scotia Crystal making stuff.
40. If it’s a weekend, go to Point Pleasant park around 6P and check out all the cars.
41. Go on a Fishing Trip.
42. Hang out at Queensland / Lawrence town beach.
43. Check out Quarrey lake if you can find it.
44. We have a ton of paths leading off the highway, follow one some day.
45. Biking / Rollerblading.
46. Find a dog park.
47. Try and find some beach glass and make a necklace.
48. Instead of buying new furniture, take your old dresser, sand it down and paint it.
49. Do some Spring cleaning and donate a bunch of crap.
50. Go here and volunteer for something..
51. Adopt a highway and do a clean-up.
52. Plant some trees.
53. Start a garden.
54. Find a secluded beach/lake then have a bon fire.
55. Rent or borrow a little boat and explore a lake.
56. Get a bunch of friends, divide two teams and set up a city wide scavenger hunt. Losing team has to buy everyone Pizza or something.
57. Same idea as #56, but take a camera and you have get pictures. (i.e : A picture with you and Theodore Tug Boat.)
58. See if Shakespeare by the sea is putting on some plays.
59. Offer to do some yard work for your elderly neighbors or family members.
60. Go check out that house in Bedford with the front doors made of gold.
61. Take a drive to the annapolis valley.
62. Go for some Ice Cream.
63. Go Golfing at one of our million golf courses.
64. Check out Sir Sanford Fleming Park.
65. Go Sailing in the harbour.
66. One of my favourite things to do is to drive around and look for big huge fancy houses. Like the giant pink mansion downtown.
67. Follow these directions from Usukari to get here! (slightly NSFW photo!) :
    Dawson Brook Falls, Nova Scotia:
    From Halifax, follow Highway 101 towards Annapolis Valley. Look for gated logging road (unpaved) on left side, roughly 3 km before the Ellerhouse Overpass. Park on road side and walk down the access road until you see bridge across Dawson Brook. Just before bridge a path forks right into woods. Follow this right path along bank of brook until you hear the waterfall.
68. Victoria Falls in Truro. What a gorgeous park that is.