Au revoir, Canada

I am writing this from the international concourse of the Ottawa Airport. Wow, it's a lot of work to get past U.S. Customs and Border Protection! Hopefully, this is the last time this trip that I have the opportunity to do that. Lines, and lines, and lines. This is really a case of hurry up and wait!
Anyway, I thought I'd share two more pictures that I took yesterday. The statue is Queen Victoria, who was the monarch at the time Canada became its own country (well, kind of, they're a constitutional monarchy that ultimately answers to her). This particular statue is inside the Library of Parliament. You can see the books behind her. I have some better pictures of the Library that I can show.
Canada Day is July 1st, to recognize the date that the country confederated and became its own country. The date of confederation was July 1, 1867. So they were setting up and there were flags everywhere for the celebrations that will happen on Tuesday. I do have a couple more pictures of the bear, but the blog picture upload feature is currently not agreeing with me, and I'll be getting on the airplane in as early as ten minutes from now, so I'll try to post when I get to Detroit. I've got about an hour or so layover there. See you soon!