Canadian Celebrity Tours

My company have been helpful with our relocation and part of this help includes having a relocation expert show us round the city so we can get an idea of neighbourhoods to live in. I'm at work now so couldn't go along but today Sarah was shown around various Ottawa districts. Sarah saw a couple of nice areas, but the real story here is who showed Sarah around. You'll no doubt be as well read on Canadian politics of the late 70s early 80s as we are, so you'll know that the Prime Minister in that era was Pierre Trudeau. He was responsible for a lot of unity laws that allowed the English and French speaking Canadians to live happily side by side.

What you might not know though, is that Trudeau's wife during this period, and therefore first lady of Canada was almost 30 years his junior. And allegedly, she was a bit of a wild-child, going to clubs with the Rolling Stones and having very close relationships with Canadian and US senators such as Bobby Kennedy. The Trudeaus split in the 80s and she had a couple of years off from the social scene to write several books about her life and then married a Canadian real estate (property owner) millionaire. Had two more children, but got divorced again and now enjoys showing Sarah the nice areas to live in Ottawa! (I've not mentioned the ladies name in order to protect the innocent).

After being shown round by a celebrity, Sarah and I met up in town and went to the Canadian National Art Gallery (it's free on Thursday evenings). It is a very big gallery so we decided to take our time over it and see it in a several visits and that we'd see the first floor this time around. There were lots of modern art that we didn't understand. I embarrassed Sarah immensely by loudly dissecting the symbolism and abstract meaning of a fire exit. I got a flicked nose when people started looking at me and backing out of the room.