[Parliment in Ottawa]'welcome' to serious road trip time. the plan started with waking up at 7am to drive Katie and Eva (this time on Katie's birthday) to Toronto for their 11 o'clock flight. we were at the wedding reception until at least 4am. 'nuff said. when the alarm went off, nobody budged. i figured i'm the driver, i need to start moving. Eva tried to tell me something while i was in the shower, but i couldn't really hear the message. i-read-the-ticket-wrong-the-flight-is-at-10-omg-we-need-to-leave-now! i told Katie that her birthday luck better keep me from getting a speeding ticket and hauled ass to Toronto, cutting off a third of the expected time to get there. poor Steve was the only witness to our departure.
apparently the girls made it home alright. i wouldn't find that out 'til the end of the day. i just grabbed some Tim Horton coffee and headed out of town for about an hour, where i found a decent parking lot and crashed for a spell. bought a jug of apple juice, good to go.
i discovered that the camping site i had planned for was actually just a house that let people camp in the their yard. i wasn't ready for all that, and i figured that i hadn't gotten more than 4hrs of sleep and i'd be on hard ground the next two nights, so i opted to just get a hotel room. those beds were nothing like the king-size in the cabin and lacked three warm bodies as company. oh well, i pulled the curtains tight. it was raining anyway.
apparently the girls made it home alright. i wouldn't find that out 'til the end of the day. i just grabbed some Tim Horton coffee and headed out of town for about an hour, where i found a decent parking lot and crashed for a spell. bought a jug of apple juice, good to go.
i discovered that the camping site i had planned for was actually just a house that let people camp in the their yard. i wasn't ready for all that, and i figured that i hadn't gotten more than 4hrs of sleep and i'd be on hard ground the next two nights, so i opted to just get a hotel room. those beds were nothing like the king-size in the cabin and lacked three warm bodies as company. oh well, i pulled the curtains tight. it was raining anyway.
[Gatineau across the Ottawa River]i had forgotten about Canada Day. here i was thinking 'woah, Canada is way more patriotic than the US.' silly me. actually, i was bummed to not be able to spend the holiday in the capital.
[the locks below the Chateau Laurier]i really wish i had time to check out all the museums and landmarks, but the riverfront behind Parliment will have to do. i don't know much about the layout of Ottawa, but i found it easy to navigate. the public areas were gorgeous (i couldn't expect less from a nation's capital) and i would definitely go back. there are lots of parks around the city and i didn't even cross into Québec.
[chipmunks playing by the Canadian 'Tomb of the Unknown Soldier']by the way, seeing chipmunks in the city is pretty cool to me. i wish i had photos of the black squirrels too. damn gray ones have taken over the States. anywho, on to New York.
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