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Photo below 以下攝影圖片: Youths playing a game of hockey in the outdoor rink
Photo below 以下攝影圖片: A young child learning how to skate with a chair and being encouraged by her older sibling
Photo below 以下攝影圖片: Young kids honing shooting skill with hockey pucks
Photo below 以下攝影圖片: Enjoying a horse-and-cart ride
The Ottawa Winterlude Festival was officially opened yesterday by the Governor General of Canada. There are ice sculpture competitions and displays near Parliament Hill and also on the frozen Dow's Lake. Thousands of visitors and city residents are taking advantage of the warm weather (currently -4 deg C) to skate on the 7 km long canal.
Communities across the city are also hosting celebrations and activities of their own. The photos above depict kids and adults alike enjoying themselves in a local park. There are lots happening there: people going for a horse-and-cart ride, children of different ages playing in a pick-up hockey game, young kids honing shooting skill with hockey pucks, climbing on top of snow piles, skating around the hockey rink, eating yummy BBQ hotdogs, etc.
Wish you were here !!!
8 comments:
Never been there before, and heard a lot of good things about it.
Gwen:
Ottawa is very different from Washington DC. For one thing the Canadian capital has been influenced strongly by both the English and French culture, both in terms of the country's heritage, politics and the environment.
The best time to come visit is either during Winterlude in February or in the summer time when the weather is nice and warm.
Au revoir !!!
sorry, i misspoke, i have been in Ottawa's before, Ian was there working before; I just never been the winterlude, probably Ian was there for school and work for awhile.
Gwen: No prob!!
BTW, I just came back from the outside and the temp is a balmy +5 deg C. It was -35 deg C with the windchill only 4 to 5 days ago !!
find all kinds of pick up hockey at www.hockeyfinder.com
its free to use
hey, i've seen some other photos there: http://memoriesblossom.blogspot.com/2009/02/2009_10.html
Derrik Dyka: Thank you for the info.
Michelle: Thank you for pointing me to the site of another Ottawa blogger. He took some nice pics of the ice sculptures.
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