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.
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!!!
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.
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?
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!
As you can see it is under construction/renovation. You can read more about the renovations here. What I did think was neat was the huge covers all around the building that had the print of the building on it. Hubby said old Donald has the same around the White House? Maybe the US readers can confirm that?
Even if I enlarged the next two photos, you will not be able to see the info. Also for some reason I cannot delete photos from a blog post. If anyone can give me pointers on doing that, I would be very grateful!
Loved the gargoyles (?) hanging off the clock tower. Also the detail work in the clock tower is amazing.
Queen Victoria.
Lester B. Pearson. There were many more statues of Prime Ministers around the property, but many you could not see because of the construction.
Another one of the buildings, again lovely details.
This one is my favourite photo, of all the metal work against the sky.
I haven't been feeling too great for the past couple of months. However, it's nothing exciting, just little niggles and twinges, that when you add them all together makes you feel blah............
I am not complaining, just thought the word niggles is an odd word I use, so looked it up...........
Do you use the words niggles and twinges for those little aches and pains, that occur on a daily basis, but are not worth mentioning? Or do you have your own special word for them?
It's apple time of year. Here is a list of the varieties of apples commonly found in Canada.
I am a Gala fan, followed by Honeycrisp and Ambrosia.
We had an apple crisp dessert that our daughter-in-laws, mother made and it was lovely. I used to make those all the time, before I was diagnosed with diabetes. Apple pies are also a favourite of mine, always used Granny Smith's for those but I don't see them listed here? Guess they are a British variety.
Here's a song to jog your memory, this is one of my favourites of theirs:
Well this past week my life has been consumed by the Backstreet Boys. They are coming to Toronto next year and our daughter is a HUGE fan of theirs. Has seen them in concert twice already as a teen, now in her **th year she will be seeing them twice again. However, why I am should be consumed by this who knows, but I got dragged into the mix because Rogers was giving out codes for the pre sales for all it's customers, and I am a customer.
Daughter is too, but she wanted two codes just in case she couldn't get through. Of course the site crashed when the codes were issued, after a stressful (for me!) 24 hours, I finally got a code. Daughter had to change a meeting at work; no one could disturb her at 10am last Monday, as that was when the tickets went on sale. She was 400th in line but she managed to get tickets. 500 level, which is up in the rafters but she is all happy about the situation.
Son had to sit by his computer to get daughter-in-law tickets and he picked 4 up as well.
And then, extra dates were added and added and added? At this point they will be carting the Backstreet Boys off the stage on stretchers straight into a nursing home....LOL
For some strange reason though, conversations with my daughter, mother, brother and even my daughter-in-law have focused on these bloody concerts all week. We even spent a good half hour last Sunday, me, daughter-in-law, her sister and her mother talking about the Backstreet Boys, and various boy bands.............
So this is it, no more Backstreet Boy conversations.............😜
Oh and just in case that prior video didn't excite you, here is another one I like!!
There was a special exhibition on while we were there called Qillaniq, you can read more about it here. Basically it's an exhibition of art work by Indigenous people.
Below are a few things I saw. I had mixed feelings about this exhibition. I will explain at the bottom of this post why. Just enjoy the photos and the details of the art pieces first.
After we went through this exhibition, we went for a coffee in the cafe. We ended up talking to the nicest employee who worked in the offices. We must have talked to her for 20 minutes and she was so informative. She explained things about some of the exhibits that we would never have discovered. I would have loved to have had her as our personal guide throughout the National Gallery.
For example there was a papier mache exhibit of an indigenous person who had caught a fish; I didn't take a photo of it. All made of papier mache. However, if you had looked at it really close (we did not) it was made up totally of grocery store receipts. The artist was trying to highlight how expensive things are in the stores further north.
The one with the orange tarp was to show what you can make with items you can find in the far north. Me personally, I thought people were working in the area!! I honestly didn't know it was a "work of art!"
There was one room, where there was a wire attached at the bottom left hand corner and the other end attached at the top of the opposite corner of the room.......that was it!!! As the employee explained to us, to get through the room you had to walk a certain way past the wire, and that what the artist wanted to show, that he could determine what people will do..........ME 😕😒😐
I guess what one person likes and what another does makes our world a special place to live in............
Part 3 you will see is more of my speed as far as art is concerned!!
