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Day 16: Jun 19, 2007: Ottawa, ON

This morning we went to the Museum of War and ended up spending most of the day there! It’s probably my favourite style of museum, where it’s like walking through a large, 3D book. The museum covered all the wars in Canada, from early conflict in the first-nations to the cold war and peacekeeping missions, they even had an exhibit on the war in Afghanistan. They also have a couple of veterans as employees who walk around the exhibits and answer questions. We talked with this one tank expert for what must have been like 45 minutes. He sure knew everything about tanks!

After the museum we met up with one of Trevor’s friends for dinner, Charles. He’s a really nice guy and hanging out with him was super fun! He even offered us a place for the night because we hadn’t gotten a hotel. So that was awesome!

Oh, but lastly I must mention that the meds I bought have done pretty much nothing, both Trevor and I now are constantly miserable, I’m convinced that I’m allergic to Ottawa. Also I kind of twisted my ankle a little. It’s not serious, just a little swollen and will make stairs kind of tricky for a few days.

Day 17: Jun 20, 2007: Ottawa, ON to Montreal, PQ

On our last day in Ottawa, we fought through Gatineau traffic to get to Parliament. We were lucky enough to have coordinated a meeting with another one of Trevor’s friends from his website, Mike, who is one of the security personnel at the hill! He was able to take us on a private tour of the Parliament building which was really really cool! We got to go to places that aren’t available to the public. We even got to meet Stephane Dion, which was really cool for Trevor because he’s a big supporter. By the way, Stephane Dion is super tall, which I didn’t expect, for some reason I always thought he was really short, but he’s a few inches taller than Trevor, even!



So, yeah, the tour of Parliament was definitely the jewel in the crown of our Ottawa stay. Afterwards we decided to head to Ottawa, which was a short 2 hour hop from Ottawa. We’re going to be staying in Montreal for quite awhile, because my dad has an apartment in Lachine that we can stay in for free. It will be our mini-vacation within our vacation, which sounds ridiculous but we need it because we’re always very “go go go!” when we travel.

The next day or two, I think, will be just for R and R, catching up on business for Trevor. Trevor’s allergies have gotten even worse in the last few days and are showing no signs of alleviating. I’m actually getting kind of worried about him, it’s pretty bad.

So, sorry, the blog may be kind of light the next few days because we’re exploring this island slowly and easily.



Day 18: Jun 21, 2007: Montreal, PQ

Jammed about all day, Trevor sleeps during the day because he fails to sleep at night :/ Hopefully he'll either feel better tomorrow or will feel worse enough that he'll agree to see a doctor.