Winterlude 2010

This last weekend marked our annual trip to Ottawa for Winterlude. Winterlude is a large winter festival held each year and Mari's father and friends have been attending for the last 25ish years.

Thursday and Sunday were spent in the car driving as it takes us 15-16 hours to make the trip. Friday Mari and I went to Ikea, got in a fight, checked into our hotel, grabbed some Thai food, met up with everyone, went out for chinese, came home and went to bed. Saturday we had breakfast at a little bagel shop where they make their own bagels in a large stone fired oven. We then went ice skating (~15km), had a beavertail and hot chocolate, watched participants preparing for the bed races, went back to our hotel to sit in the hot tub, had cocktails, then went out for some greek food. The next morning we had breakfast and hit the road.

I'd share more, but that's really about all there is to it. This is the fourth year we've participated and not much has changed. It's really good to spend time with Mari's family and this year I even tried to limit everyone's exposure to my camera.

Till next year...

Later