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Kontinuum in Ottawa
Diego and I – hologramversion Doesn't it look like the tributes from the movie Hunger Games? Kkk According to the event's website, KONTINUUM, is an immersive multimedia experience created by ottawa city hall and the world-renowned Canadian multimedia studio Moment Factory and is scheduled to highlight the upcoming station of Ottawa's new light rail (LRT) public transportation station. The station in question (Lyon) is in the heart of downtown Ottawa and access is through Sparks Street, between Lyon and Kent. Kontinuum is happening from July 16 to September 14, every day from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Admission is free, but you must get a ticket with a scheduled time…
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MosaïCanada 150 | Gatineau Tourism
A few weekends ago we visited another attraction specially assembled in celebration of Canada’s 150th anniversary. It was a beautiful day and to coincide with another attraction that was going on the same day, La Machine, was crowded, both Ottawa and Gatineau. The MosaïCanada 150 (see more information on the website here) is in Gatineau, jacques-cartier park, on the border with Ontario, on the banks of the Ottawa River, and close to the Canadian Museum of History, is this beautiful exhibition of natural plant sculptures, addressing various historical aspects of Canadian culture. The exhibition has free admission (you can take a guided tour for $10 per adult), there is only…
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Disney World Hollywood Studios
The Hollywood Studios was for the longest time the weakest park at Disney. The attractions were a bit dated, and therefore the least visited one. That will likely change with the additions of the Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge and Toy Story Land areas. The girls loved the Disney Junior characters, including Sophia, Doc Mcstuffins and Jake. Pluto was also a hit with everyone in the family, and BB8 was the cutest of them all. 🙂 The weather was really hot that day. We can still enjoy some shows, too. Frozen’s, called For the First Time in Forever: a Frozen Sing-Along, where Diego and I laughed a lot at the presenters…
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Epcot | 2017
Night at Epcot – beautiful colors! My gosh, these posts are extending too much! The last post comes out next Friday, about Hollywood Studios, so be sure to come back! I think this globe is fabulous – we did the tour in there at Spaceship Earth I love the care of gardens and sculptures at Epcot Hizinho to Daisy / Daisy right at the entrance of the park Gang arriving at Epcot So, penultimate park that I come to address today is the EPCOT and I will say, it is one of my favorites too, but for different reasons. The girls had fun, but we couldn’t get a spot on…
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Becoming Immigrants | The decision
In our first year of permanent residents in Canada. I was here evaluating our 10 years in Canada coming up, how much has happened and how much we've learned. The certainty that we did the right thing comes to us every day, but of course, back in the early days everything was very uncertain, it was even like a game, we were betting all our chips without knowing if we would give our number. I get countless questions from people, usually families, who have the desire to come here, who get lost in the bureaucracies of the immigration process (or study or work), but above all, wonder if it's worth…
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Diefenbunker: Cold War Museum in Ottawa
Tunnel in Diefenbunker So that comes that weekend that had no plans and out of nowhere, ends up having a very profitable Saturday, turistically speaking. Carp is a rural community about 30min from downtown Ottawa (and 15min from our house), which even has an inland village face. It happens there, every weekend, a producer’s fair (Carp Farmer’s Market), with fresh produce and handicrafts produced in the region, too bad it’s over by the time we get there. Our plans then basically boiled down to lunch at the well recommended Alice’s Village Café, which as a name already says, has everything to do with us haha. Alice loved to pretend that…
