Weather We Like It Or Not

The cold Winter weather has warmed a bit over the past week. It's a relief as I was starting to feel guilty for bringing Sarah to Ottawa. We've found out that Ottawa is actually the second coldest capital city in the World! That's second only to Ulan Bator, the capital of Mongolia. What have I done? I'm not looking forward to next Winter.

We've moved into our new apartment now. It feels a lot more like a home as we've got our furniture and ornaments. I was very manly and spent the weekend assembling lots of wooden furniture from Scandinavia. I got sore hands. Sarah made the bedside tables which look great and haven't collapsed. After the vertigo problems of our previous apartment, we've now got to contend with sloping floors. The kitchen and dining room in particular have an incline that requires a 4x4 to ascend. We make sure we put food in the back of the fridge so that it doesn't topple forwards onto us.

We met some new friends for breakfast on Saturday. Weekend breakfasts are a big deal here. The restaurant was packed and the pancakes were lovely.

On Sunday evening we saw Will Smith in the romantic comedy Hitch. It was an ok film. The cinema was pretty small and everybody clapped when the film finished. Sarah was not impressed by the lack of choice for pick 'n' mix sweets.

Sarah's had a busy week of three lunch dates. She is so exhausted by it all that today she stayed in all day and didn't get changed out of her pyjamas.