So what have we been doing for the last month, well we now have Aaron here but I will get back to that.
At the beginning of August we decided that we would go and check out the highland games in Glen Garry, which is odd as we have never even been to the waipu highland games at home, To get there you head for Cornwall and a small town called Maxville just before Cornwall, we arrived early and looked around at the different things happening and talked to people and looked at all the tartan, and i even got offered a job in the RCMP(not to sure on that but). We found a good spot to sit down and watched both the men's and the women sports everything from throwing the stone to tossing the shet, to the caber toss, it was a really good day and the weather was even better which made it worthwhile, the best thing was the women's caber toss, as the caber was to long so they had to take to it with a chainsaw before anyone could get it over completely.
The next night we headed for Dow's lake on the Rideau Canal for the lights parade. We found a good space and sat and watched the boats all lit up with lights go around the lake for everyone to see, this was only one part of the canal festival that had been on, all the boats followed each other around the lake with only one incident where a boat hit the back of another and one of the people on the front fell into the water, but no one was hurt.
The night was rounded off by fireworks but as you could imagine after Boston on the 4Th July it was just not the same, but we did get a really neat pictures of the fireworks.
Which brings me back to Aaron, Aaron arrived here on the 4Th August after doing a contiki trip in the Rocky's, we picked him up from the airport and it was the busiest we have ever seem it, might had something to do with the lightening storm that had just gone through Ottawa.
The next day we all headed into town and the changing of the guard on Parliament hill, it was a nice day and we even got to see one of the guards faint and get carried away. That night we went to Lac-leamy on the Gatineau side of the river for one of the fireworks competition shows. We arrived early and set up the seats and relaxed and enjoyed the music until the fire works show started, we had gone to see Germany and their 8000 pounds of fireworks, it was a good show and all done to music which made it more interesting.
We also went to Omega park about an hour east of Ottawa on the Quebec side of the river, it is an animal park where you drive around with the animals. It was a good afternon for all of us with the highlights being the bears and the bisson that would come up to the windows, there was heaps of well feed deer at the entrants to the park as everyone feed them carrots
On the 9Th Sarah, Aaron and I all piled into the car and we headed back to Quebec City for the third time for Sarah and I and first time for Aaron, the first day we walked around the old city and looked at all the sights and showed Aaron all the places we had found before, the next day we drove the car along the St Lawrence river and stopped at Massif, a big ski hill in the winter, the difference here being that the car park is at the top of the hill and you ski down.
From there we got to La Malbaie before heading back to the hotel and the surprise for Aaron.
We went and got dinner and then walked around the port and tried to make it look like we were just walking around not going to Cirque du Soleil new show but we got lost a bit and Aaron figured it out, We had got front row tickets to the show and it was worth it and to be so close to every thing as well.
We headed back to Montreal in the hope of seeing Kathy's aunt, but things did not work out so we spent the day in the old part of town before continuing back to Ottawa.
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