The beaver is a proud and noble animal
Notes from a bemused canuck
Vacation’s over. Time to get back to reality, the normal routine. We had a great time, better honestly that I had expected. A huge thank you to my family, who hosted the Bean on sleepovers, so that Katy and I could have some date time. A huge thank you to my wifey, who entertained the Bean while I got my shiny new tattoo.
Now it’s time to pay the bills :D
Bobble learned how to play roulette tonight, and amazingly came out ahead! Unfortunately, he spent his winnings on port and cigars…
Bobble had high tea at the Château Laurier, complete with scones, cucumber sandwiches and gin.
Steak tartare, ribeye, lobster tail, veg and mash. Owl can’t move anymore.
The restaurant wants to rotate its wine cellar selection, so it’s offering close to half-price deals on very, very nice bottles.
Bobbles has swooned over the fruity notes of a 1998 côteau du Languedoc. It’s like the wine is giving you a gentle cuddle.
A drink and a cigars in the casino lounge. He’s a happy little owl.
Bobble has always had a special relationship with the museum of civilization. Except it’s not the civilization museum anymore, but the museum of Canadian history.
The Harper government is set to rebrand and refocus the country’s biggest museum into a monument to the history of Canada in the lead-up to celebrations of the 150th anniversary of Confederation in 2017.
An announcement is scheduled next week that the Canadian Museum of Civilization will be renamed to focus specifically on Canadian history. The renaming signals a broader mission for the museum beyond its current anthropological focus to one that looks more seriously at Canadian social and political history.
Bobble was quite distraught that the whole 3rd floor gallery is closed until 2017. He doesn’t understand hot it can be made more “Canadian”, as it used to cover the whole development of Canadian history, from the traders to the establishment of New France, the war, and subsequent industrialization. So yeah, colour him confused.
Again, I tell you, I don’t know where that little owl packs all that food away!
Bobble went to the Cirque du Soleil studio. He saw the new show being developed, but it’s all very hush hush, so he can’t talk about it except to say that it looks really cool and he can’t wait to see it when it goes on tour.
He even filled in on the CB while we had lunch. He’s a very helpful owl that one.
He even climbed up on an 80-foot high rigging grid above the main studios. Now granted, he’s an owl so heights don’t really faze him but it was impressive for the rest of us.