We're going to the Farmer's Market for the first time this year! It started last weekend, but we couldn't go. Its our favorite thing to do!  :D

I will go to the Farmer's market as well. It's such a part of my Saturday morning routine that I don't even think about it anymore. We have two farmer's markets in our area. One is more specialized in arts and craft and the other one has more food. Yé for me, because I don't have a car, I go to the closest one, which has more food.

Still 27 minutes to go before my weekend starts. Woo hoo!

Tomorrow I'm going downtown to do some touristy stuff (I'm in Ottawa, the nation's capital). I'm going to sit in on Question Period, which is an hour of federal politicians yelling at each other and heckling... the state of politics these days... Then I'm going to visit Canada's national art gallery, maybe wander around downtown for a while. And on Saturday I'll do more tourist stuff with my mom - visit Ottawa's Byward Market, the museum of civilization, maybe watch an IMAX movie. And on Sunday we'll probably do a boat tour of the 1000 Islands on our way out of Ottawa. I like being a tourist.

I've spent the summer of 2004 in Ottawa for my internship at this radio station. Nice city, the By Market is awesome and I worked in that area. I took some time to do the tourist thing ( I love to be a tourist as well). I went on a guided tour for the Parliament. It was interesting. We went swimming at Lake Philippe, I think that's what the name was. But I was broke most of the time, so I mostly just walked around. I did go the Parliament to sit in on Question Period, but it was not during that Summer. It was very boring, I was kind of disappointed actually. Most of the MPs weren't even there. I think it would've been more interesting if they were debating on something I understood. Well, at that time, they were talking, but it's like nobody really listened. It was anarchy! ;D

Yes, Canada is a country ruled by anarchy.

There's a long period in the summer when the house isn't sitting. It's their vacation/time to focus on thier constituents, etc. I hope Question Period is interesting - there have been a few scandals recently - did you hear about the one that came out last night? Our foreign affairs minister's ex-girlfriend was married to a member of a biker gang. Apparently that threatens national security...  :hrmm:

I don't have a lot of money either, so won't be going ALL out, but the Parliament building costs nothing, and since I'm not 20 yet, it's only $4 for me to get into the national art gallery. Yipee!

Yes, that is still on the news.  Yes, some are afraid for the National Security, because the girlfriend herself was at some point on a hit list or whatever. But she wasn't accused or anything... I'm not really sure what to think of it. Of course, Bernier has the right to his own private life, but then again, how did he meet that woman? What were the circumstances? Is that Julie Couillard still has ties with members of the organized crime. I do not fear for public safety, per se, but it could be mean that Bernier has links with the organized crime. I'm going to the extreme here, but it's not like it's never been unheard of : Politicians brushing shoulders with the mob. With a government tough on crime and squeaky clean as Harper's, you'd think they know better and that sometimes, you can be guilty by association. And you know that if the Tories were still in the opposition and a Liberal MP was in the same situation, the Tories would be all over that.