Beautiful Ottawa!

I just came back from a walk and a beautiful walk it was. I usually walk towards the beach (lake) takes me about 45 min. there and back. I listen to my music and hum along, do some praying and thanking God!

The park area is just so beautiful and very busy with people of all walks of life, church groups, families having pic-nics or just lying around. There is a new restaurant with an outdoor cafe, music, dancing, young people just having a good time! Than the many play structures like the one on the picture. Parking lots were all filled up.

I decided I just have to take a few video's next time. This evening the view was so gorgeous with the evening sun hanging low over the water with people still having an evening swim.

For you Winnipeggers, it looks like City Park and Birdshill Park Beaches all rolled in one. Add a pier for fishing and lots of benches and picnic tables to watch the world go by. THAT is pretty well our backyard. An other bonus........ there are no mosquitoes!

Ottawa is known for it's many trails just for biking,(several hundred km) they are wide enough to pass (yellow line in the centre) and room for pedestrians. Ottawa also boasts over 1000 parks! They are all beautifully landscaped.

Ted and I took a trip across one of the Ottawa River Bridges into Quebec. We drove around some cute small towns and finally ended up in a large shopping area. We had lunch there and the servers could not speak English except for one girl who understood I wanted my soup warmed up, hilarious! I guess, we'd better learn to speak some French if we continue going across the river, hahaha!