Friday – September 1 – What a beautiful day for weather but the forecast for the next few days is not great so we are trying to make the best of the good days and do the outdoor things first..

This morning we went into Ottawa and did the ByWard Market, got some nice veggies, then went up the Peace Tower, had lunch at an outside café then went on a boat tour of the Ottawa River, plus lots of other walking around. When we came back from the boat ride there were some boats going through the locks so watched them go through one of the locks. These are the locks which were built in the late 1800’s and they still open and close them by hand. We then decided it was time to get out of Dodge as being the beginning of a long weekend we thought the traffic would be horrendous so wanted to get out before it got too bad. As it was it was about 4:30 when we headed out and it was busy but not horrendous.

I don’t know what is in the air here but for the last couple of days I have been going crazy with allergies so stopped in Rockland when we got back and got some Claritin, so hope that helps. We are now hoping that tomorrow will still be nice so we can do some more sightseeing and will save the museums for the rainy days.