Dinner cruise

I forgot to blog about this last night. The evening event for last night was a dinner cruise. After we got totally lost on the way to the previous session at Library and Archives Canada, the bus drivers knew exactly where to take us this time. Everyone loaded onto this sort of long, flat boat with walls and a ceiling, and waited quietly until we were given permission to go to the bar and to eat. The ride was very nice, but the food could have been better. I think that what I thought was a ham sandwich ended up being bologna. I like bologna sandwiches, but I wasn’t expecting one on a dinner cruise! Anyway, the first picture is of the Chaudière Falls . The water is Lake Ottawa, and it runs a really far way, but the part that I was on was the dividing line between Ontario and Quebec provinces. There are some other interesting pictures from that part of the trip, but I thought that this was probably one of the better ones. The second picture shows the bridge that connects the two provinces.

While we were on the dinner cruise, we passed along the backside of the Parliamentary buildings. See on the back of the building (nearest the photographer) in the picture where the roof is gray instead of green? That is the Library of Parliament. They have seven branches, including the main facility, and employ 400 people. Pretty huge library system, eh?