Bal de Neige Rodney. Bal. De. Neige!

Only a quick message, just because I liked the title really! We drove the five minutes through Ottawa today and went over the border into Quebec, the French speaking province. Why would we do such an insane thing? The Canadian festival of Winterlude is split between Ottawa and Hull (essentially the same city as they're just across the Ottawa river from each other). We'd seen the ice sculptures on our first day in Canada and wanted to see the snow sculptures. Just as the ice sculptures had been wonderfully intricate, so too were the snow sculptures, though these were on a much larger scale (see photos). The snow sculptures had been damaged slightly by the rain during the week, but they still looked very impressive.