Ottawa Trip - Tuesday June 27th

Tuesday was Mitch's favorite day of all on our trip. We visited the Aviation Museum, and if you know Mitch at all, you know how much he loves planes. The museum was so huge, and there were many makes and models of planes, helicopters, etc. We took about 80 pictures inside the building, but of course I'm only limited to a couple on here..This is a piece of one of the Avro Arrows that were destroyed. Mitch couldn't believe his eyes when he saw it, he didn't believe Matt when he told him it would be there. Mitch had built a model of this plane last year, so it was very special for him to see the real thing.
Here's Matt and Mitch pretending to fly a plane, this picture makes me laugh everytime I see it! Too funny!
Here's Mitch in front of a P-40 plane...

After our tour through the Aviation Museum, we headed off to the Science and Technology Museum. It was extremely cool, lots of interactive stuff, and interesting things to see. We went into a thing called the "Crazy Kitchen", where the floor is crooked, the walls and lines are painted at wierd angles, and it makes you really dizzy. We laughed so hard..then we were off to the simulator, which was a space mission to Mars. I won't get into the details of the ride, all I can say is we had a "very successful mission"..and we couldn't stop laughing about it for the rest of the day.

We did see lots of other stuff too..
Here's Matt and Karine pretending to be hockey players...look at Karine's face! Heh heh!
Mitch standing beside an old fashioned steam train, we actually got to go inside of it too! Very cool!
And this is a pic of the first ski-doo ever made..by Bombardier, pretty wierd looking.

I wish I had more room for all the pictures we have of these two places, but I'd be here for days posting. They were both really interesting places to visit. After our tour, we tried some Vietnamese food for the first time, in a restaurant called the Golden Turtle. It was really good, not at all what I expected. Mitch was most impressed with the chopsticks, and asked if he could keep his. Our waiter said, "If you put them in your pocket when you leave, I won't see anything". So, Mitch put them in his pocket, and then sat on them when he got back in the car. They snapped right in half! Doh! Oh well, it was good for a laugh anyway! A great day had by all..read on..

Lissy