John and I mostly traveled back to Canada together, first time we've been so coordinated. And we flew through Tokyo, which I've never done before. I don't know if all of Tokyo has bathrooms like in the airport, but I definitely want to go back and find out. Check this out.....it's a picture of the extra features of the regular women's bathroom toilet. To be honest I didn't try them all. And then, in the airport lounge bathroom, white noise starts playing as soon as you close the stall door. Isn't that great?
From Tokyo to Toronto and on to Ottawa, to recover from jetlag and for me to attend eHealth. Day 3 of jetlag always seem to be the worst for me and that was the day I was writing 2 health informatics certification exams. I don't have the results yet but at least have a decent excuse if I didn't manage to pass them.
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We did some touristing in Ottawa - I'd never been into the Parliament Buildings, so it was fun to do that. We took the free tour, which was pretty hokey, in a nicely Canadian way, but it was fun to be in Ontario with its many interesting personalities!
On the last day before leaving Ottawa we visited the War Museum, and it was pretty impressive.
After a couple days in Toronto visiting John's sister and nephew, we came home to Victoria where the highlight was having my two US-based daughters (who are both pregnant) and families come to Victoria for the weekend so that we could have a baby shower for Liz. Here's a picture with their youngest sister, who appears to be suffering from preggo-envy!
But after that, and seeing some other family and friends (but not everyone I wanted to) and having 3 trips to the dentist and 2 to the optometrist, and picking up the things that I can't get in the Philippines, it was back to the airport and the long trek home to Cebu. Victoria is beautiful at this time of year and it was much more difficult to leave than when it's cold and wet in January!
