Ten Tulips on Parliament Hill
O, Canada?
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This doesn't look at all like the real thing.
Last year, based on past experience with traveling during blizzards and other forms of crazy December weather, we decided to opt out of potentially getting snowed in at the Denver or Colorado airports, so we simply postponed Christmas to April of this year. (Since the “Christmas in April” nonprofit renamed itself to “Rebuilding Together” a while ago, we felt that this was fair game.)
We flew into Ottawa and we had a great time hobnobbing with relatives. We ended up doing our Christmas gift exchange at a restaurant in a small farming town outside of Ottawa, and I’m certain that we surprised the local residents when they saw us exchanging our stacks of red-and-green Christmas presents in early May.
One of the other highlights of our trip was our visit to Ottawa’s Parliament Hill. SFMom and SFDad had been there once before as a family in the pre-baby era, but it was freezing cold (think -20°C) and we didn’t spend a lot of time on the hill. We had pleasantly warm weather for this last trip, so we were able to spend more time exploring.
It so happens that, many moons ago, friendlyneighbortothenorth got SFBaby a cute little board book called “Canada 1-2-3″. One of the scenes in the book shows ten tulips growing on Parliament Hill. We happened to be visiting Ottawa during tulip season, so SFBaby tried to reenact the scene all on her own! The only problem is that there were way more than ten tulips…
Tags: canada, christmas, ottawa, parliament hill, tulips