Last weekend Robbie and I drove to Ottawa to spend the Easter weekend with Laura, Ian and Mandy. We left Friday morning from Drayton around 930 am and drove the 6 hours to Ottawa arriving around 430. Laura and Ian had a delicious turkey dinner waiting for us and Laura had even baked a pumpkin pie!! Conveniently it turned out that Mandy lives only a few blocks away and was able to join us. The entertainment consisted of us helping to put the dinning room table together as apparently is was much too difficult for 2 engineers. We ended the night by going out for drinks and the Fox and the Feather and crashed at Laura and Ian's.
Saturday we did a walking tour of the grounds of the legislative buildings and down around some of the market area. There was a large but peaceful demonstration going on in front of parliment (which Laura was disappointed at when discovering that it was not a parade) against the genocide of Tamils in Sri Lanka....lots of flags and lots of shouting. We also went on a tour inside the legislative building which was very impressive and consisted of the "center" block, the library and the peace tower. The architecture was beautiful. Ian met up with us later for lunch at Darcy McGee's and then we all went to the Natural history museum to take in some dino's, mammals, birds and a special exhibit of Jane Goodall and her chimpanzees. Mandy cooked a delicious dinner and we stayed in, drank wine and played Apples to Apples. Laura and Ian were the official champions.
We stayed over at Mandy's that evening as we had to leave very early, 5 am, to drive to Toronto for brunch with Robbie's aunts and other relatives. Brunch was delicious, although I think I was still full from the past 2 days, and then we participated in their tradition outing of bowling. Good thing Robbie and I had been practicing up, we didn't even know there would be bowling, but we were probably the best ones there. Must have been first timers luck.We were exhausted by the time we got back to Drayton, but we had a wonderful time. Thank you to L, I and M for letting us stay over!!!
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