It’s been a very long time since I wrote a blog up here, so I thought I would update you all on my summer antics since I returned from my trip home in June. I love the summertime, when the nights start to get a little bit warmer so you can sit out on the patios to enjoy your drinks, as the sun starts setting later and later so that 10 pm feels like 6pm, and it rises as you are heading to bed, when your boots are changed for flip-flops and the summer dresses can make an (albeit brief!) comeback!
Just before I left for my holiday to England in June, I had landed myself a job as the assistant manager of a tourist cruise company on the Ottawa River, “Capital Cruises”. Being the seemingly lucky person that I am, I had got this job through a
So the boat kept me entertained for a lot of my time, but I also managed to benefit from many of the summer fun events Ottawa has to offer. Here in Canada they really seem to take advantage of t
I won’t go through all of them, but I think that Bluesfest had to be my favourite of ‘fests’ I went to! It lasted 2 weeks, although I only managed 2 days of it. It was just down the road from my house which meant a perfect stumbling distance! (You can’t camp at these festivals.) I saw a variety of Canadian bands who were so great, as well as a couple of other more well known bands who still seem to be popular here-anyone remember Weezer?! I also got to see Sting live in concert for free from work which was great to hear an English accent again!
The sound and light display on Parliament Hill was particularly impressive. For half an hour every night Parliament was transformed into a variety of colours and pictures depicting great moments in Canadian history, popular figures in society and so on.
The month of July was renamed ‘pong month’…seeing as which 26 of the 31 days of July we played beer pong. (A great North American game which I seemed to have great beginners luck in…in the beginning anyway!) In Canada you get money back for any empty alcohol bottles, so we now have a ‘throne’ (literally) of beer boxes in our house….partially blocking my cupboard door!
I got to attend my first ever baseball game in Toronto, although as far as I could tell it’s just rounders for adults…!
Its been a long hot summer and a lot has happened-so this blog is going to have to come in two installments!
To be continued…