We left early Saturday morning and got to Montreal in 4 hours. I've been known to have a lead foot which resulted in a friend nicknaming me Mach 1 many years ago. After this trip she upgraded me to Mach 3. In my defence, I didn't even touch 140Km/hr once. I'll just say cruise control is an amazing thing.
After a lovely week end in Montreal we reached Ottawa Monday morning and headed straight for the Ministry. We parked (for free!) behind the building, entered through the back where a polite security guard checked our IDs and headed on to the lobby where I would wait my turn to be called in to get my documents legalized. While we sat on the couches in the lobby- surrounded by flags from all over the world, we happened to face the set of Canadian provincial flags. Since we had nothing to do while we waited we decided to try and guess what flag belonged to which province. We both scored 1 out of 10!
In my defence, I didn't grow up in Canada. I know I try and sneak that excuse on almost everything, but this time I think its valid! My friend was born and brought up in Quebec, Canada. We have both lived in Toronto for about 11 years so you would think that we would get the Ontario flag right, right? Wrong! We both knew the Quebec flag and that's it! Shameful I know.
As we texted friends trying pathetically to describe the flags in front of us so they may google and let us know, my name was called.
Before heading back to Toronto we decided to see the frozen Rudeau Canal. It's quite amazing to see people skate along a whole canal with coffee shops and skate rental booths set up along the ice. While we were sliding around in our sneakers amazed that we were standing on the canal, I saw a maintenance truck drive by in front of us. I know they say that ice is thick, but thats when I decided to step off the ice.
We had lunch and made it back to Toronto...in 4 hours.
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