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onefixedstarB and I went up to Ottawa for Canada Day because he'd never been there and I thought July 1st was the perfect day to introduce him to the city. :D
We didn't actually make it into downtown Ottawa during the day because we opted to drive up that morning, and discovered that getting out of Toronto on the first day of a long weekend is a bit of a challenge. When we finally got there, we were so exhausted that sitting around at my friends' place seemed like a better idea than wandering the streets of the city. It meant fewer opportunities to gaze at attractive, half-naked boys wrapped in Canadian flags (or the impressive sight of the street leading to Parliament Hill packed solidly with people), but it also meant more time my friends and their new baby, which was pretty exciting itself. I hadn't seen them since before she got pregnant, so it was wonderful having a chance to catch up. And we did make it down for the fireworks, which were spectacular from our vantage point behind the Supreme Court.
On Saturday we went out to the market with my friends, met up with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
semiotic_trader and a_just_society for coffee, and then wandered along the canal (with a visit to the new giant spider scupture outside of the National Gallery--the egg sac was a particularly disturbing touch) until we got tired.
We didn't actually make it into downtown Ottawa during the day because we opted to drive up that morning, and discovered that getting out of Toronto on the first day of a long weekend is a bit of a challenge. When we finally got there, we were so exhausted that sitting around at my friends' place seemed like a better idea than wandering the streets of the city. It meant fewer opportunities to gaze at attractive, half-naked boys wrapped in Canadian flags (or the impressive sight of the street leading to Parliament Hill packed solidly with people), but it also meant more time my friends and their new baby, which was pretty exciting itself. I hadn't seen them since before she got pregnant, so it was wonderful having a chance to catch up. And we did make it down for the fireworks, which were spectacular from our vantage point behind the Supreme Court.
On Saturday we went out to the market with my friends, met up with
semiotic_trader and a_just_society for coffee, and then wandered along the canal (with a visit to the new giant spider scupture outside of the National Gallery--the egg sac was a particularly disturbing touch) until we got tired.
