New Years was a quiet but enjoyable one with the Appleby's. Since then its been nose-to-the-grind-stone with my new job starting on 7th January.
A week in the classroom, learning more pointless skills about telemarketing that I will never need come my 'real' job, but met some more Canadians, changed my plans for later in the year yet again, and got fined $210 goddam dollars for using a student pass in the metro!
The highlight since making the last entry was taking a trip to Ottawa yesterday. Kate and I got the 9am bus, which took about two hours. Kate was a bit bored to say the least, as I talked about sport from start to finish with my new friend JB (Jean Baptiste, I think). We arrived in the capital city at about 11.15am, and went straight for the parliament buildings. We took in the free tour, learnt about all the politics stuff and looked at some pretty views and rooms- all the same things as back home really!
Afterwards, we walked around and got a carriage ride from a bloke who was more concerned with talking about gay bars and whipping cars than he was about Ottawa!
Keeping the budget low, the next thing we did was go to the Notre Dame cathedral (my third Notre Dame in three months), which had over $100,000 worth of gold on the roof! Nice and free for us to see of course! Then on to the National Art Gallery (...foyer, it costs to go inside) and then to the Royal Mint.
We really liked the place though. It was smaller than Montreal, but beautiful, quiet and the bars were trendy with cool music (mostly British!). Kate and I had ourselves a dinner in a bar and grill place (named Cornerstone maybe?) but then we had to get ourselves back to the bus station to finish off our day.
Pleased with Ottawa! Might even have to go back there...watch this space!
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