Some food photos from Ottawa

I finally got around to sorting out some food photos from Ottawa.

Pubwells on Sussex.

We sat out on the patio and it was a lovely atmosphere.  I had the sausage, mash and Yorkshire.  I can only tolerate pretty bland food at the moment, and they seasoned the mashed potatoes with a LOT of black pepper.  So I couldn't eat much of those.  Otherwise it was good.  Hubby said they had a great selection of beer; he had two Largers so it must have been okay.  Hubby got a wrap and fries.

The name of this place was neat; Scone Witch.  We went to the one on Elgin, and honestly it's not the easiest place to find.  The staff were Eastern European and super nice.  The "scone" was good; we got cheese scones with butter.  Now as I am from the UK, I would call this scone more of a biscuit.  As it is so much denser and reminds me of the biscuits you get in the States.  It's all to do with the type of flour we use on this side of the ocean.  The scones in the UK are so much lighter and fluffier inside.  It was all good though.

On one night we were super tired.  Sat down in a pub for a meal and basically they forgot about us. After waiting 30 minutes to be served, so we trudged back towards our hotel. All week we had been passing a restaurant, so we called in there to have a Pizza.  El Taco De Oro is a hole in a wall place.  Super nice, pretty busy and serves great food.  Again, I have to be careful what I eat, so wasn't brave enough to try the Mexican food, so had a pizza.  The pizza's were good and hubby had a Mexican Beer.  Would eat there again.

Now I only took these photos because the display was so colourful.  This was in a bakery in Byward Market and they are decorated sugar cookies.  I think they were around $5 each.  I didn't get one, but was impressed with the decorating skills.

I know I mentioned this in another post, but I could have eaten Bobino's Bagels everyday.  The soup was one of the best I have ever had.

So if you are in Ottawa, these are some places where you can't go wrong food wise, in my opinion.

What National Day is it today?

 On October 30th it's the following:

• National Breadstick Day
• Haunted Refrigerator Night, where you purge all that forgotten food that is in your fridge!!
• National Candy Corn Day .....I hate those candies.....just saying
• National Text Your Ex Day........now that could be interesting for some!
• National Checklist Day........who doesn't love making lists?
• World Lemur Day.......they are cute little creatures
• Create a Great Funeral Day.........honestly it's a "thing!"
• Mine Rescue Day

There are other things celebrated, but these ones stuck out to me.

You can read more about them here.

Driverless Cars..........

 I remember laughing my socks off when I first saw this video:

and thinking this is in LA, oh those crazy Americans.

However this past week or two things have popped up closer to home regarding the idea of "driverless cars."

There was a segment on the local news show about how Waymo is doing route mapping (I think that's the name) in Toronto in preparation on launching its services in the city.

Then there was another segment on the local news show, that mentioned how Tesla has a subscription service of $99 a month for it's "Supervised Driverless Car" option? Which then jogged my memory about how we passed a car the other week and I noticed the driver (I was in the passenger seat of our car) eating with her hands off the wheel, and the more I thought about it, I think that was a Tesla car.

Now me personally; hell would freeze over before I got into a driverless car.  I am apparently the worst back seat driver out there with people actually driving, according to my husband and family.  Never mind being a back seat driver with no actual driver!!!

What are your thoughts about these driverless cars?  Good idea or just a plain bad idea!!! 

Canada Museum of Nature - Part 1

 I will split this into two posts, again not to overwhelm you with photos.

The Canada Museum of Nature is in a purpose built building that was built back in the early 1900's.  With later additions to it.

I am a sucker for stained glass and this building's stained glass was gorgeous.

There is a special exhibition on until January 2027 called Wild Colour  

"Wild Colour is an exhibition that explore the beauty and science of colour in the natural world."

Below is an example with the explanation in the photo below that.

In the basement was an exhibition of "creepy crawlies," my description, not theirs.....LOL  Those were honking big cockroaches, just saying!!  Bottom left of the photo.

These hissing ones did indeed hiss, I heard them!!

There was also a big gallery with dinosaurs.  Could have done with having the boys with me, to explain in great detail what they were all about...LOL

The Earth Gallery was my favourite, but I didn't take any photos as it was odd lighting in there to highlight the rocks and minerals. 

All in all it was a good museum.  I think if you had children with you, a lot was geared to them.  However there were a number of adults like us wandering around.  Glad I went but wouldn't go back again.

Part 2 to follow.

Dinner in a Mug.........

 These would be handy when you can't be bothered to "cook."

This is a link to the page, lots of other interesting posts there.  It is on Facebook though and called Little Shine.

Municipal Elections......

Here is Ontario it's the day for the Municipal Elections; where we vote for the Mayor, council members and school board trustee's.

I voted online as did hubby.  I am of the mind, that if I don't vote, I can't complain about anything going on in the city.

I sort of know who the Mayor is, have no opinion one way or another how I feel about him.  I know more about the other mayors in the other major cities around us.......which is pretty sad!!!

Our local councilor I do know and I have talked to him a few times.  Is he great, not really, but he will sort of do things for us.  He does have opponents this time, so it will be interesting if he gets in.

The school board trustee, I have no clue, just picked a name off the list.

Do you vote in the municipal elections where you live?

Decluttering tips........

Stumbled upon this site on Facebook about Decluttering, called Alison's Notebook.  Honestly not sure if it's all AI content or an actual person at this point???  Regardless some good tips including these:

Loved the last one........"Guilt: You don't have to keep it." so very true!