Day 2 - Ottawa

This is the second day of my road trip! It's pretty awesome so far, except... It's so HOT!
In the morning we ate delicious scones from The Sconewitch. I cut mine into 3 layers, and filled each layer with cream, strawberry jam, and raspberry jam. It was dee-licious. Apparently though, my sister makes better scones. Interesting.I need to try those sometime.
After brunch, we walked towards the parliament buildings, and stopped by at St. Andrew's Church.

We got to the parliament buildings, which were like big, gigantic castles. It was pretty cool to look at, but the history wasn't too interesting to me. There was a big group of people in front of the parliament buildings doing yoga. Pretty funny and pretty cool.





We checked out the canal and the locks, which were pretty cool.















Then we took two tours in a row. On the tour of the East block, we got to see some fancy offices. The rank of the person in the office depended on the details and colours of the decorations in between the wall and the ceiling, and the detail and design of the fireplace. Yup.




Then, there were members of some sort of... goverment whatever.... thing...? And they hang their coats up on these coat hangers, and it was pretty cool, because each hook was assigned to the person with a certain job. And the Prime Minister (I think) would switch around coats, and if your coat was on a different hook, then now you have the job of the person who used to hang their coat on that hook.If your coat was on the ground, you were fired.

Then we took a tour of the Center block, which wasn't as interesting.
We went to the Planet Coffee cafe next, and just sat there for about an hour. We ate Planet Coffee cake and chocolate cake, both were very good. I visited the French bookstore next door,the Librairie du Soleil, where I pretty much failed at reading French. It was fun though.
Then my sister's friend Kaity came. We went for dinner Moji. I had Penne Pesto, which was really awesome and tasty. We stayed there for a long time, mostly because we were talking more than we were eating.
After that, on the way back to out hotel, we bought two Beaver tail classics. They were SO GOOD. They were warm and delicious, and it was hard to resist them - even though we were very full.
So, Day 2 was interesting, hot, sometimes boring, sometimes fun. And all the food was VERY TASTY. Mouth watering. So far, the best thing about Ottawa would probably be the food. :) Cheers!