So, it’s Sunday. We went to Mass today with our hosts, and then mustered all our resources to complete of some Ottawa highlights. First stop, Royal Canadian Mint. We booked a guided tour, which cost us a meagre $12 for an interesting and informative tour of how collector and investment coins, all of solid gold and silver, are collected, purified, melted, formed, cut, washed, dried, stamped and inspected.
Just a block up the street from the mint is Ottawa’s Notre Dame Cathedral. We visited the Cathedral and prayed there for our daughters away at school. The church is beautiful, a testimony to the faithful who settled the area, their love of God and their ability to understand that they were building this house for future generations. And we are grateful.
I can't share the magnitude of the beauty of this place...so just a few of the details, which intrigue me much.
It is now getting going to be dusk soon, so we are going to wind our way out of the city and toward 24 Sussex Drive, home of our Prime Minister. He invited us to tea, but it was getting late, and we had other things to see. We strolled down Sussex, and came to the residence of the Governor General. This entire strip of parkway, from the mint to 24 Sussex, and all around the neighbour hood is the home of several of the embassies of several countries of the world.
Last stop, the residence of the Papal Nuncio to Canada.
Tomorrow…Montreal.
Just a block up the street from the mint is Ottawa’s Notre Dame Cathedral. We visited the Cathedral and prayed there for our daughters away at school. The church is beautiful, a testimony to the faithful who settled the area, their love of God and their ability to understand that they were building this house for future generations. And we are grateful.
I can't share the magnitude of the beauty of this place...so just a few of the details, which intrigue me much.
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| detail from the ceiling |
It is now getting going to be dusk soon, so we are going to wind our way out of the city and toward 24 Sussex Drive, home of our Prime Minister. He invited us to tea, but it was getting late, and we had other things to see. We strolled down Sussex, and came to the residence of the Governor General. This entire strip of parkway, from the mint to 24 Sussex, and all around the neighbour hood is the home of several of the embassies of several countries of the world.
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| 24 Sussex Drive, Gatehouse |
Last stop, the residence of the Papal Nuncio to Canada.
Tomorrow…Montreal.
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