A hot and fine day for sightseeing today (perhaps even a little too hot). It certainly felt that summer has arrived. I hope that we too will have such fine weather back in Toronto tooJ
This morning, we decided to eat our breakfast in Byward market! The pastries certainly looked mouth-watering although the prices were rather steep. I shared a garlic bread with Xinjie before embarking on our exploration today! We went up to the Parliament hill so that we could explore the buildings and the statues around to the fullest. The nice architecture had attracted us greatly when we saw it from the opposite shore yesterday. I am so glad that my camera has enough batteries to last me for today as we took lots of beautiful photos of the architecture and the scenery.
We also managed to join the tour for the parliament house where we get the chance to go into the building to see the chambers and stuff. It was quite cool except that the tour group is very large and I often could not catch what the tour guide is saying as she was too far away from me. The security was also quite strict and in order to play safe, I removed all metal stuff before passing through the metal detector including my belt as well.
After visiting the parliament house, we attempted successfully to take individual and group jump shots! It was very fun, although we seemed like some mad people jumping up and down on the field under the hot sun! Haha after the strenuous exercise, we were hot and tired and we went in search of food for lunch. We went to the Rideau centre and had our lunch – fish and chips! My first meal of fish since coming here! So gan dong! Haha but the serving is too big and towards the end, it seems a little overkill. I was so full that I couldn’t eat dinner. After lunch, we shopped around the centre before walking back to Byward market. After looking through all the shops, we went back to the hostel to rest and drink our orange juice. The hot weather certainly made us very thirsty indeed.
After resting, we went to Metro nearby to buy some food for dinner. At the entrance, we spied a DVD rental kiosk machine and decided to try our luck, renting Disney movie Rapunzel. Unfortunately, the hostel has no DVD player and we ended up playing Bridge which is an interesting game. I hope I will remember how to play next time tooJ going to sleep soon so that can wake up early tomorrow morning to finish packing!
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