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Ottawa day 4…

04 Sunday Sep 2016

Posted by sulis303 in family, health, life, loss, nature, Photography, technology, Uncategorized

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big girl pants, Farmers Market, flight, hot air balloon, Lansdowne, Ottawa Day 4, sky, spectacular, widow

really going to need to have a vacation when I get home…

today we were up and out of the house by 5 am… decided we would see if we could get a hot air balloon flight… if it didn’t work this morning then that was a sign that we weren’t meant to go…

by 6:30 we had a flight booked and were heading to the Gatineau Airport for lift off…

although the expectation was that we would go straight up and come right back down as the air was very still, we were up for an hour and a half and went to 3000 feet…


spectacular… this time when we got back to the Park, we all had Apple Cider together and got pictures with Annie, one of the pilots of La Magie de L’Air… what a great team they are… maybe next time we will take in the International Balloon Festival of Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu;-)… 

then we headed to the Farmers Market at Landsdowne… lots of people there, most of whom seemed to be lined up for the bread…

we stopped at the Lindt store and Whole Foods for dinner supplies and headed home for a well deserved nap…

later we took a long list to IKEA and as we were leaving saw the balloons on their evening flight… 

once home, we even saw a few as they floated through the air close by…


ended the day with a stunning light show…

Ottawa day 1…

01 Thursday Sep 2016

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big girl pants, flight, mani/pedi, Ottawa Day 1, packed, sky, sunrise, sunset, travel, water wall, widow

early this morning I took this picture of the gorgeous sunrise as I was running up and down the stairs finishing my packing…

my flight was at a very civilized 9:35 am which meant I even had time for a smoothie before I left home…

bags packed and ready to go…


after a good flight, landed in Ottawa and got this shot of a cool sculpture as I was heading toward the baggage carousel… one side was quite boring but this view was gorgeous with the light shining through…
when I got to the bottom of the escalator took a pic of the water wall while waiting for my bag…

was thinking how far I have come over the last number of years… flying is old hat for me now, which is good and bad I guess… and travelling on my own is very manageable… happily took a cab to my daughter’s house and then walked to the mall to pick up a few things for lunch… 

view from my bed for the next few days…

just last week when the boys were over we used the twin of this comforter for their sleepover…

once my daughter arrived home from work we walked down the street and had mani/pedis…

as we made our way home I stopped to get this picture of the gorgeous sunset…

woke up in one province to a beautiful sky and heading to bed in another under the an equally beautiful one…

NYC day 1…

16 Saturday Apr 2016

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big girl pants, cabs, flight, Kinky Boots, NYC, party, Subway, Time Square, tunnel, widow

three of us left the city at five am…

flew across the country to Toronto… where we met up with the last member of our party…   

had some breakfast, waited a bit and then got on a flight to New York City…

arrived to a sunny, warm day… there was a sea of cabs waiting to take people into the city… after a hair raising ride over bridges and through tunnels we arrived at our hotel….  

the view from the top floor is lovely and we hope to see the sun rise in the morning…  

very late lunch, a change of clothes and it was off to Time Square, via the subway… there were wayyyyyyy too many people there…

stopped in at the M&M store and then off to our first Broadway Show…

Kinky Boots… very cute… had great seats and enjoyed the show…

having trouble with the internet so there will be no photos…

fancy…

21 Thursday May 2015

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big girl pants, birthday, convertible, fancy, flight, shopping

what a wonderful afternoon and evening…

left work at 2:30 as I’d put in a couple of extra hours since yesterday…

  
had a bit of fun at the mall… got some fancy tea, fancy soap, fancy underwear and a pair of fancy shorts (or culottes)…

got home and booked a flight to Ottawa… sat out in the garden for a short time and then headed out for a BS birthday dinner in a convertible…

  
enjoyed a delicious dinner, lots of laughs and good conversation… two hours flew by…

  
fabulous group of women… we have been through a lifetime together… 

I couldn’t have better friends…

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