Poor Sherman!

Made it on to our Montreal to Ottawa flight at 7:00am, scheduled for take off at 7:10am. It's just a little twin engine propeller plane seating 24 people. They fired up the first engine, but the outside temperature was -24C (-11F) and they had to warm up a battery in order to start the second engine. This took time, and then when that was done we had to go to the de-icing stall.

So, it was about 7:50am by the time we took off. I can't quite figure why they didn't start doing this earlier...they would have known about the deicing. In the meantime, the interior of the plane was also quite cold. Everyone kept their coats and hats on!

Anyhow, we finally got in the air and warmed up, and just as we got up to cruising altitude we had to start coming back down. It's only a 20 minute flight from Montreal to Ottawa.

Our daughter Lindsey and grandaughter Sadie were there to meet us. Grandson Cameron was in school.

It's cold here! There's certainly no global warming happening in Ottawa this year. It's just a typical Canadian winter. And, it quickly reminded us that we don't like this type of cold!

We relaxed for the day and even had an afternoon nap.

Grandson Cameron (5).

Granddaughter Sadie (3).

Good thing, because they had already made plans for us in the evening. Last time we were here we had done one of those "escape" rooms with our son and his girlfriend and a couple of their friends. It was a lot of fun, so they had asked us to do another one.

There is a new one opened up in Ottawa, and so Ruth and I went with our daughter Lindsey and son in law Justin to meet up with our son Alex, his girlfriend CJ, and Ruth's nephew Matthew. The seven of us were booked in the Boom Rom for 8:00pm.

The record for this room was a 29 minute escape, and only 20% of the groups who try this room manage to get out within the allotted 60 minutes.

We did it in 35 minutes! Alex and CJ are quite good at puzzles and problem solving...and the rest of us all contributed as well. Lots of fun.

Slept well last night. We don't do jet lag...or better yet we don't let it do us. We'll explain that another day.

Woke up this morning to -14C (7F) and it's snowing. They're calling for 12 to 20 cms (5 to 8 inches) before midnight tonight. Welcome back to Canada!

We'll enjoy the next two weeks with family and friends, but it won't likely ever happen again at this time of year!

Taken this morning.

Poor Sherman!

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