Rideau Canal biking paths were the focus of our day. Biking around the city is a great way to see a lot and keep cool with the breeze made by forward motion. We started out from Lansdowne Park, home of the Ottawa Renegades. Our tour took us down the Rideau Canal to the Ottawa Locks and we watched some boats going through. This route took us in behind the Parliament Buildings and several other historic sites. The building you see in the picture above with the pointed spire is the newly restored Library(160 million). It is the only building that is an original as the others were burned down in the great Ottawa fire.

We then kept going around to the NW end of the city in behind the Surpreme Court of Canada as well Gatineau, Quebec across the Ottawa River. We will be there tommorrow at the Museum of Civilization. We met Syvie and her daughter Madeline while we were behind the Court and may get together with them this weekend. We continued west around the War Museum and then at the suggestion from Sylvie went over to the market and got some fruit, drinks and chocolate croissants,for Jim and Yvonne only.

By this time we had spent over 3 hours on the bikes so we headed back and stopped at a playground along the way so Yvonne could run around there for a bit. We got back to our vehicle and headed for home and that nice cool pool as Ottawa is hot and muggy. What a great way to end the day.