Happy 149th Canada Day, a national holiday to celebrate the unification of Canadian provinces to create one country. We spent the day visiting museums and partaking in the festivities with the rest of the citizens. One local mentioned that in the almost 20 years that he has lived in Ottawa, he has only had one Canada Day where it was dry. Would we luck out for this day?
Canadian Museum of Nature
Queen's Lantern
Queen's Lantern from the inside
Dinosaurs exhibit
Supreme Court Building
Inside the courts
In the throes of chaos
Canadian Snowbirds air stunts
They closed off a number of streets around the capital to accommodate the thousands of people that descended upon the capital
We say enjoying cheese curds
Canadians for the day
National Gallery and spider sculpture
Notre-Dame Cathedral Basilica
Museum of Canadian History
Looking across to Parliament Hill from the History Museum
History Museum, interior
Canadian Coat of Arms
Mask from the Indigenous Peoples exhibit
Napoleon and Paris exhibit
Dusk sets, almost time for fireworks
Unfortunately for us they closed the bridge to get to the other side, so we were stuck at the history museum. The rain started and we had to make a choice weather to watch the fireworks at 10 p.m. and then hope to get the right bus back where to start walking towards the other bridge and hope to watch the fireworks from there
Fortunately for us, we did manage to watch the fireworks from the second bridge
After the fireworks, it was just a 15-minute walk back to our air Airbnb
