Exploring Ottawa
Day off!! Whoo-hoo! We headed towards the city and found a spot to park our bikes at Our Lady of Fatima's church. By this time we'd found a bank for cash and bus tickets too. We rode bus number 18 into town, bought some hop-on hop-off tour tickets and found a place to enjoy a coffee. Then went for a ride on the bus, crossed the provincial border into Gatineau, 
Quebec and got off at the third stop: the Museum of Civilisation. We spent hours and hours there (too much to read really) and enjoyed lunch inbetween overlooking the river and Ottawa city. Especially enjoyed the life-sized display of the regions of Canada.We caught the last tourbus of the day (phew it came!) that took us all over the place. The entertaining and chatty tourchick was the
same one in the morning and the afternoon. She remembered us and Stephen didn't win the prize but did count the sets of Provincial flags. Once we got back into the central city we managed to get tickets nr 1 & 3 for the musical Wicked in the Governor General's (Comissaris van de Koningin) box at the theatre. Happy anniversary to us! :)We headed for the Byward Market which has an immense choice of restaurants for an OK dinner at an Irish Pub and then found
some internet access to contact the home-front. Afterwards we were still very full and lay back on the grass of Parliament Hill to enjoy a light and sound show called Canada: the spirit of a nation. Riding back to the campground was dark and slightly bizarre.Signmund had the day off.
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