Parliamentary Appointment

For the May long weekend we visited our nation’s capital, Ottawa. I had never been there before, so we were wanting to go there before we move from Ontario. We were pleased to have Naomi’s brother Andrew and Missy (a friend who is a student here at WOLBI and also just happens to be dating Andrew) travel with us. This was the first touristy thing Naomi and I have done for a few years. We had lots of fun seeing the capital with Andrew, Missy and Adelaine (Ellie stayed with some friends). We toured the Parliament Buildings, the National War Museum (a must see!), National War Memorial, Canadian Museum of Civilization.

The War Museum was amazing! I need to go to Ottawa again to see everything in there. We were rushed going through and didn’t have the time I wanted to look around.

This is the gun used for the world’s longest range sniper kill (2,430 meters or 7,972 feet) by a Canadian sniper, Corporal Rob Furlong in Afghanistan in 2003.

A bunch of tanks in a large room crammed with vehicles at the end of the museum.

One of Hitler’s parade cars, an armoured Mercedes Benz. Don’t try to touch it.. an alarm goes off – trust me, I know…

A British cork helmet should protect your head.. from elastics maybe.. Good enough for the Homestarmy!

That weekend was also when the Ottawa Senators advanced to the Stanley Cup play-offs. We came out of the war museum shortly after the game ended and could hear horns honking in the distance.. The city had gone crazy! It took about an hour to get to our hotel, normally just several minutes away as several city blocks were shut down because of the crowds gathering to celebrate. Cars driving around with people and Sens flags hanging out the windows with their horns blaring, people screaming at each other. It was nuts.

That night Andrew and I walked to Parliament Hill to get some night shots and the party was still going. I had never seen that many happy drunk people before in my life.. In order to avoid possibly being attacked, I had to pretend to be a Sens fan.