ottawa is a city of extremes.
apparantly it is the second coldest capital city in the world (mongolia has the coldest...).
when i arrived in ottawa it was as cold as auckland ever gets in winter.
a week later it was as hot as auckland ever gets in summer.
currently we are back to the coldness.

on friday alex drove his sister, eric and i down to toronto where we spent the day before being picked up by erics parents and driven back to mount forest - erics hometown. friday was meghans (erics sister) birthday and on saturday his aunt and grandma arrived and we went to see meghans dance recital. watched the video "eternal sunshine of the spotless mind" which was brilliant (thanks to rachel for mentioning it) and exactly my kind of movie with bizarre time editing like memento, and real characters that showed that everyone has both good and bad sides with a real ending as opposed to a happily ever after ending.

have decided that groundhogs are most definitely cute.
have also decided that i prefer grey and red squirrels to the black ones but am not going to be picky.

have been watching macgyver season one on dvd. season two comes out in june.