Sheraton Ottawa

Hi friends!<br>Well here it is... My travel blog! I'm really excited that I found this site because I can upload all the pictures I want as well as make a map of where I am!<br>I'm going to test out a couple of things on this site before I go so hang in there with me!<br><br>I currently have this blog going right to facebook but if you would like to be notified by email when I publish a new entry please let me know!<br><br>I'm not sure exactly how this blog looks on FB so you are ...

... local to the hostel, the Royal Oak, here we met a beautiful Brazilian girl called Marianna. After a brief chat about London, Brighton, Exeter and Ottawa she invited us to meet and stay with her in Montreal, as she was only in Ottawa to hand in her Phd dissertation on Criminology. We accepted her more than kind offer and left her to fill up on lebanese keebobs! (no typo thats ...

After deciding to have an early start, we got up late and were off in a hurry.  We made it to Toronto in the late morning and had no clue what we wanted to do.  We were distracted by all the weird signs and attractions around the city; did you know they have something that looks like our Space Needle, their CN Tower, and they also have a Ride the Hippo (are they copying Seattle or is it just me?).  Madeline spotted a sign for China town, and after ...

... is like only remembering the breaks in the path while walking through the forest. But enough about us; what do we think about the world? We should mention that we've only seen a minuscule portion of it: 1-200 cities out of millions, a thin sample of places arrayed in a few strategic points of the global village, itself just a small though growing geographical slice of our great Earth. And out of that small geographical slice we've met an even tinier slice of people: those ...

... Justin surprised me from behind. Wow! There he was in front of me happy to see us! He had not changed a bit. Still the same Justin but handsomer and tanned. I was quite happy to see him. He directed us to the main doors and then out of the airport. A taxi was waiting for us. Smoothly, Justin engaged in a conversation in Spanish with the driver. Wow again. He was talking fluently and at ...

... as guests we got in without reservation. There are hundreds of tables inside and in a huge garden where a pit fire burns and you dine under the stars looking over the moonlit Camelback Mountain. The temperature is just perfect no humidity or bugs. Clients are the many prosperous locals, a valet grabs their cars, Porsches are parked closer by, and let's just say that you do not see evidence of any negative impact caused by higher world food prices. SL April 16, 2008

... these people should get jobs instead of coming up with such crazy stories, its makes my blood boil'! I my self am still unsure. We made a stop at the Canadian museum of civilization, although a full day would be required to make complete a proper visit! We then had a stop a mansion, Rideau hall, the official residence of the Governor General of Canada, Michella Jean. It was surrounded by beautiful gardens, home to many black squirrels, intriguing to us as foreigners ...

... ball was rolled to me and I clumsily found it. I then oriented myself using the taped down string in front of me before standing up. I wound up and took the shot with as much force as I could muster. No gasps or cheers from the crowd of onlookers. My shot had travelled out. Back and forth we went. Each blindly trying to score. Even though I couldn't see I could feel that Ron had a stronger shot than me so I was optimistic each time he wound up to take a shot. Almost 2 minutes ...

... anything faded away as quickly as it had entered our minds in the first place. And before we knew it we had arrived at Hurdman. Now we were still roughly a kilometer away from the stadium but there was a bus that went directly there. However, a quick glance at the bus schedule informed us that we would have to wait about 13 minutes for that particular bus. Ron quickly expressed his opinion that we should just run it and I was in full support. So we ran out ...

... evenings) and so after golf we rushed off to the lesson. I managed to forget that I had walked 10KM on Saturday and played 9 holes of golf immediatley before an hour of Salsa! Soon I might admit I'm too old to do all of this at once. Anyway that's the latest news from us. Everyone is well, Annabelle is growing, now weighs 12 lb 3 oz and had her first immunizations this week. Kayla is enjoying being 2 and will be coming for a sleep over next weekend. We look forward to that.