Skating On The Rideau Canal
Winterlude may be over, but the Rideau Canal, our national landmark, is still open for skating. Downtown Ottawa, I keep on seeing passers-by casually carrying a pair of skates in the hands or on their shoulders, heading to the longest skating rink in the world (okay, I know some may argue it’s not!). The crowd on weekends is pretty impressive!
Only in Canada you can see toddlers skating perfectly, moms pushing strollers on ice and teens goofing around, secretly training and hoping to be the next Wayne Gretzky.
Skating on the Canal is actually pretty hard because the ice if far from being smooth — no zamboni to resurface it! It can get quite slushy (slush is a mix of ice/ snow and water) and there are holes here and there.
 Walker With Skates |
 Looking Down At The Canal |
The Rideau Canal
 Slow Down, Skaters Ahead |
 Ice |
 Father and Son |
 No Pedestrians (Too Icy!) |
 Tying Up Skates |
 Baby Skating |
 Ooops.. Hole In The Ice |
 Little Girl Resting |
 Queuing For… Yeah, Beavertails |
 Yes, I Love Them! |
The Rideau Canal
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I really want to go to the canal and skate. I learnt skating and I think it will be very nice to tell people that “I skated in the Rideau canal”… hehehe! Enjoy the beavertail!
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Hey, we were all there then!! I wonder if we are in your pictures somewhere in the crowd, the four of us — me, Mr.B, Mr.T and ‘Obélix’. It was fun to be out on the ice with them (a real trip down memory lane for me, the Ottawa girl) and then each day to come back to images of Olympic winter sports beamed from Vancouver on the TVs in the hotel lobby. Mr. T improved his skating by leaps and bounds, and we all got a great workout. The only thing that didn’t live up to expectations were the beavertails — first there was an incredibly long line-up, as you noticed, and then when I finally got the thing, the plan was to just eat a bit. (Will be posting about weight loss on the blog soon…) The idea was that the kids would eat most of it, but they refused, if you can believe it! Mr. B tasted a bit of the Killaloe Sunrise and said he didn’t like it. The mind boggles. By the time I gave up trying to convince them, it was cold, of course…which happens rather quickly out there, as anyone could guess.
My children can be rather unusual at times.
Can you believe I never actually skate on the Rideau Canal? Every year I say I will, and then the rentals are always expensive, I have the camera with me or other pathetic excuses!
I’ll try to spot you in my pictures