After a slightly later start again today the bus headed off downtown Ottawa where some people went for a wander and the others remained on the coach for a sightseeing tour of the city with the possibility of a tour of the Parliament building coming up tomorrow. The lovely clear day meant that everyone had a great view from the bus apart from Muriel who couldn't see anything from behind her eyelids sleeping off her hangover. We then headed back to the hotel to pick up the sleepy heads and off to the Navy Curling Club where we anticipated a great day due to the day we had last time...
The first session took to the ice where they had a relatively tough time with only Trevor coming out on top with a very close 9-8 win. He reckons the highlight to his game was taking a 4 in the second end.
Ian Kerr was unlucky with his close game with his team losing 4-5 and a slightly higher difference of 3-10 to Raymond and 2-11 for Gordon.
Julie and Irene continued with their tradition of drinking Labatt Blue and Irene is away for an early night now.... Julie is on the rum.....
The second session saw things slightly better although Arthur was drawn against the club's strongest team and shook hands after the 7th end on a 15-1 defeat. Alex Bryden was also down in points with Alex Dickson and John McDermott and their teams coming out on points to bring us back to a very respectable Scotland 94 - Canada 94. It was brought to our attention later that changes had been carried out in one of the Canadian teams without the consultation and agreement with the opposition so we made a committee decision and voided the game bringing the totals to
SCOTLAND 96 - CANADA 92!
The friendliness and hospitality shown at this rink in 2004 was repeated today with an evening meal being provided and the teams sitting with their opposition for many hours. One even went as far as to bringing in his "Milk Bottle" which had some of the amber nectar in it and shared it with his Scottish opposition.
The day ended with an "ice ball" fight between Susan and Chris on the way back to the bus and Susan received a sore face...
