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So I have eventually returned from my whirlwind tour of the USA that we crammed into our ten day spring break. The original plan included two twelve hour bus journeys, two plane flights, three cities and two different coasts.
Note this should have been posted arround 13/02/08
This week Ottawa is in the middle of the Winterlude festival. This tradition is a tradition celebrated in many Canadian cities and is the Canadian winter festival. In Ottawa these festivities are centred on the Rideau Canal as it freezes in the winter to become the longest skate way in the world.
For me this week has been dominated by sports, more specifically my confused and muddled attempt to understand the scary new lands of North American sports.
The most exciting sporting event of the weekend was the near miraculous win of the Toronto Maple Leafs over the Ottawa Senators for what must have been only the third time this season. [read on]
