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Ottawa’s hidden treasures

Ottawa’s Hidden Treasures: The Log Farm Sugarbush

15 March 2010 Ottawa Family Fun

Looking for an inexpensive March Break adventure? I’ve got a great suggestion for you! There’s a delicious breakfast, an historic farm with friendly barnyard animals, mud, maple, sap, mud, hiking, mud, maple taffy, marshmallows, lunch — and did I mention the mud? We headed out with another family and a half and spent a spectacular [...]

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Ottawa’s Hidden Treasures: The Lime Kiln Trail

28 October 2009 Ottawa Family Fun

I think I’ve discovered the most beautiful place in the entire city of Ottawa to have as a setting for a family portrait! On the weekend, the big boys and I, together with my cousin and his son, took a hike that I’ve been meaning to check out for years, the Lime Kiln Trail off [...]

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Ottawa’s Hidden Treasures: Valley View little animal farm

15 September 2009 Ottawa Family Fun

I‘m on a “Ottawa’s Hidden Treasures” tear these days! The photos from this post were actually taken a couple of weeks ago, but I’m just getting around to posting them now. No wonder we’re not getting any housework done — every time the sun shines, I feel the need to pack the boys up and [...]

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Ottawa’s Hidden Treasures: Britannia Beach sunset

9 September 2009 Ottawa Family Fun

For more than 15 years, I lived in Ottawa completely oblivious to Britannia Beach. I’d visited Mooney’s Bay, Lac Phillip, Meech Lake and scores of others, but none came close to the Lake Huron beaches of my childhood growing up in London. Then one happy summer, we discovered Britannia Beach, and it’s just not summer [...]

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Another excellent Ottawa family adventure: Mud Lake

8 September 2009 Ottawa Family Fun

I don’t know how the weather was in your neck of the woods this Labour Day weekend, but here in Ottawa we got the sun and mild temperatures that July forgot. This means that the mile-long to-do list was promptly abandoned in favour of some end-of-summer outdoor family fun. So much fun, in fact, that [...]

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Photo fun at the Flea Market

17 August 2009 Ottawa's hidden treasures

Beloved wanted to do one thing on our summer vacation this year, and no, it wasn’t painting the bedroom an extraordinary shade of yellow. He wanted to visit the Antrim Flea Market, the country cousin of our dearly missed Stittsville Flea Market, gone now for many a years. Unfortunately, in this summer of never-ending rain, [...]

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Ottawa’s Hidden Treasures: Crysler Beach

3 August 2009 Away we go

Looking for a perfect “stay-cation” adventure near Ottawa? How about a miniature train ride and a day on the water at Crysler Beach? It’s a lovely hour’s drive through the charming small towns along highway 31 to the St Lawrence Seaway — totally worth the drive on a sunny summer day that also happens to [...]

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One of Ottawa’s hidden treasures: Victoria Island

9 July 2009 Life in Ottawa

My friend Todd and I, together with seven kids — my three, two of his three, and two cousins — ranging in age from 17 months to 10 years old, had the most lovely adventure yesterday morning and I highly recommend it as a family excusion in Ottawa. (Why is it far easier for two [...]

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Rent a bike in downtown Ottawa

9 June 2009 Life in Ottawa

This is wicked cool! Starting this week, the city of Ottawa is running a pilot project where you can rent a bike from one of four downtown bike stands. Check out the Bixi website for details – and don’t forget to bring your own helmet!

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Two waterparks for Ottawa

27 May 2009 Ottawa Family Fun

I get a tonne of traffic googling Ottawa’s new water park. Next summer promises to be a wet one as there are not one but TWO water parks opening in the capital. In the east end, there’s Calypso, which promises to be Canada’s largest water park — cool! And in the west end near Barrhaven, [...]

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