In addition to the birthday festivities, we enjoyed the city of Ottawa to the fullest. We stayed in a hotel right downtown, where we were only blocks from the Parliament buildings and the daily changing-of-the-guard parade.
Many years ago, when Theo was a wee pup, we took a trip to Ottawa and took a picture of him on the lawns of the Parliament buildings. Ten years later he has hair, he walks, and he gets really annoyed when his parents take pictures of him. He's come a long way.
The monuments, buildings, and flowers were beautiful.
We took a boat tour of the canal that runs through downtown. The captain let Theo and Ben drive the (very large and expensive) boat.
He had the good sense to take over again when we came to a traffic jam of multi-million dollar yachts. Good man.
On the night of Maureen's birthday, we all had dinner at a Japanese steak house. Theo and Ben never dreamed that there existed a career that involved swords AND fire.
Not to mention really great ways to embarrass grown-ups.
We had a great night, and the boys now have an entirely new respect for the restaurant business.
And finally, because we all enjoy a good scare, we took a haunted ghost tour of the city. Very spooky. We toured the old prison, where prisoners were held in cells like this one.
Only they weren't so smiley about it.
I highly recommend these tours to anyone with impressionable boys between the ages of 8 and 12. They will never sleep again, and seem to appreciate the physical closeness of their parents a little more.
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