Duckati Racing

Sarah’s parents arrived in Montreal on Wednesday afternoon. It was a bugger to find the airport so we’ll really have to like you if you want picking up from there! There’s a regular train link to Ottawa just so you know! We’ve been showing them around, although they’ve been to Ottawa a couple of times before. We wowed them with the Ottawa Lynx baseball team and Sarah’s dad, Roger, seemed quite keen to join the team. He had the potential (see photo). A highlight of their first weekend with us was the annual Ottawa Duck Race on the canal. It’s done to raise money for the Children’s Hospital and the prizes were fabulous – a boat, trip to Cuba and a car. Unfortunately we didn’t get any raffle tickets but I did get myself a duck for the bathtub. By the way, it was a rubber duck race. Today we went down to the Byward market as there was a Classic Car Show so we left Roger to happily wander round the cars whilst Joan, Sarah and I went into various shops and sat in a café. We found a really nice art gallery featuring Canadian art so when we’ve saved up a few thousand dollars we’ll go back and get a piece for our wall. We ended the day by taking the in-laws out for dinner. It’s such a rare occurrence that we actually treat our parents and in time honoured tradition they had to write the review. Here it is!

Feleena’s is a Mexican restaurant situated in the heart of the Glebe. It was really nice to sit outside and watch the world go by. The owner/manager, Les, is a really friendly guy. The margaritas are excellent and the food is good and reasonably priced (is that why Sarah and Ian took us there?!)Joan particularly liked the stuffed chicken and the fajitas were fabulous. At the end of the meal we were given free shots of Pernod. Would go there again.