I’ve got some sort of cold/flu/plague thing, AGAIN.  But I’m feeling tremendously bad that I haven’t shown you any snaps from my trip to Quebec & Ottawa.  Let’s do some quick ones before I need to crawl back into bed, shall we?  Ottawa airport:

Lovely big wall o’ water, no?  Not the greatest thing after a 5 hour flight, just saying.  Every one of us suddenly realized that we needed the bathroom, right now.

My new boyfriend, Sir John A. Macdonald.

Some shots of my room, up in the rafters of the fourth floor.  So cool.  It was just a little bit like being at Hogwarts with all the weird angles and such.

Yep, you can find Grower’s cider in Quebec.  Who knew?

 

And here are some shots around the grounds.  The weather was amazing there.  It didn’t rain until I was back in the airport to come home.  Sunshine every day and really quite mild for the time of year.  These shots are the outside of the hotel and over the Ottawa River.

Biggest Silver Birch I’ve ever seen.  Which of course made me sing, “Land of the silver birch, home of the beaver.  Where still the mighty moose wanders at will.  Blue lake and rocky shore, I will return once more…”  Come on, you must have had to learn it in grade 1 too?  No?  Okay, never mind.  The joggers who ran by me didn’t seem to know it either.  I got me some strange looks.  Seriously, I’m not crazy, check out all the video hits there are for it.

What every reading knitter needs when out for a walkabout.

Quebec squirrel.  Do you think our west coast squirrels would think he had an accent?

Okay, that’s enough for today.  I’m pooped and I’m going back to bed.