Ottawa

Hi kids- It's Barney Bear

Arrived in Ottawa yesterday.  It is a beautiful city on the St Lawrence river.  We have done some neat things.

 Yesterday we went to a  Aviation Museum.  It had airplanes from the beginning to now.  The picture is of me on a pier where a pilot is loading up his plane to fly goods into areas like Alaska where there were few people and some times no roads.  The people who did this were called bush pilots.

Ottawa is the capital of Canada, so today we went to see the capital building called Parliment.  It looks like a church.  We got up early so we could get in town to see the "changing of the guards."  Canada never broke away from England like we did, so they do things like the English do here.  The soldiers are dressed in red and march around.  It is pretty neat.  We, also, went to a museum that talks about all the earliest people in Canada like the Eskimos.  It was neat too.  My feet were so tired from walking around that we did not get to see much of it.

Tomorrow we will come back into the United States.  We are going to the Adirondack Mountains in New York.  Then we are going down to see Heather and her family.  Heather is my mommy too.  She made me when she was about 10 years old.