The Montreal international balloon festival

This is one of the dozens of bouncy castles at the balloon festival.
Syd even liked this one.


Next event. The Ottawa lights and music show. Starts at 8.45pm




No Mooses spotted yet
Spotted so far.
One Newfoundland dog and one Red Squirrel.
One seal, and numerous starfish.
And one live lobster. (no longer alive).
Six covered bridges.
The largest axe.
Numerous Poutins

Location:Sparks St,Ottawa,Canada

At long last the 3G chip is activated

And now we can get online anywhere including in the car.
Currently we are one hour from Canadian capital city, Ottawa.
Syd has slept all the way so far, George is on his iPod
Moody blues on the radio
28 degrees and sunny outside




No Mooses spotted yet
Spotted so far.
One Newfoundland dog and one Red Squirrel.
One seal, and numerous starfish.
And one live lobster. (no longer alive).
Six covered bridges.
The largest axe.
Numerous Poutins

Location:Vankleek Hill,Canada

Poutin, delivered to our room

A great day of hiring a Bixi bike, riding it around the Harbourfront, a lot of sight-seeing then poutin, delivered to the room from St. Huberts.

Biggest winner of the day, Syd who left the apple store with his own iPod touch. Lucky Syd.







No Mooses spotted yet
Spotted so far.
One Newfoundland dog and one Red Squirrel.
One seal, and numerous starfish.
And one live lobster. (no longer alive).
Six covered bridges.
The largest axe.

Location:Ruelle des fortifications,Montreal,Canada