Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Ottawa, the last two weeks



Since we have come back from Montreal we have been busy doing not much, we have been out for a roller blade and bike ride, and looked in shops for winter clothes.
I have been working at Stations 51 and 13 for the long shift(what a stupid idea that is) Sunday of the 24 hour shift the station i was at 51 and had 14 calls for the day, and the station i am normally at had 34 calls!! I have still not been to a fire but am meeting lots of people. Today i ever got to go into a big room where we were told that anything we saw in the room stays in the room.
And not the mention we got to go for a tour of the Cirque Du Soleil tents and set up yesterday.
Sarah is still looking for a job, has applied for some but is still waiting to hear back.
The weather is starting to change with the days being cooler and the nights starting to get down to around 4 degrees, but not much rain which is good, the leaves on the trees are starting to change as we move towards autumn which is really neat to see for us.

Last week end we headed out to a small town called Carp and looked at the Diefenbunker, it is a cold war nuclear bunker build for the prime minister of Canada in the event of a nuclear war back in the 60-70 when every one was worried about it. It was an interesting place to visit, different that is for sure, the bunker was build and used up to the mid 1990s as a secure listening post after the cold war finished, the tour took you though the different levels and showed you the kind of things and equipment that they would have used to survive for what they thought would be about 30 days, dreamers.....
After the bunker we headed to Mike's mums for dinner with his younger sister and boyfriend also coming so got to meet some more of the family.

As for things to come, we are off to Quebec City on Friday for 6 days and hoping to see lots, also trying to decide where we want to go for holidays over the next year.....
But you will have to keep reading to find out where we are planning on going.

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