Winterlude

So as long as I can remember I've wanted to skate on the Rideau Canal. I remember seeing it in one of my text books as a fairly young kid in Primary school and thinking "WOW"!.

I've thought about it pretty much every year since I've lived in Montreal (I'm on my fourth winter here). Usually it's too late and last year it apparently wasn't skateable. This year I thought about it ontime, and JF and I decided to go during their annual winter festival, Winterlude.

The Canal was awesome, aside from a few rough patches caused by flooding earlier in the week. But for the most part was very nice. Here are some highlights:

Skating the Canal


Beavertails!!!


JF on the canal


One of many ice sculptures (to see more click here)


Us @ Parliament Hill

We had beavertails which is the thing to do, even though you can get them all over in Québec. And we visited parliament we even got to go inside, they were having an open house. We got to see the beginning of the ice sculpture competition which was excellent because on Day 2 they were already starting to melt a little. click here to see more of the sculptures as well as the rest of our trip pics. There were a few really awesome ones.

Overall it was a really excellent weekend, and I got to visit one of my favourite restaurants (Swiss Chalet) since they don't have any in Québec. There was no knitting as I decided to let JF have a weekend were I was all his.