I took a day trip to Ottawa with the rest of my REU. We sightsaw, went to museums, shopped at the farmers' market, and ate at lots of tasty restaurants. The city was gorgeous: open and airy, clean, lots of greenery. Everyone was friendly, in a "hello, tourists, give us your money" sort of way.
Apparently this awesome castle is actually a hotel. Sadly we weren't staying there.
Locks! Very exciting to a mathy lot.
Sidewalk art. There were lots of these owls around the city. Not sure why.
Buying pastries for breakfast.
Awesome drum performance!
Giant spider sculpture outside the art museum. (This thing was several stories high.)
Some of my favorite exhibits in the art museum follow...
Chapel, once slated to be destroyed, now transplanted into the museum. The forty speakers play the forty parts of Spem in Alium.
"High Olympus," W. P. Weston.
"Sainte-Famille Street, Montreal," Louis Muhlstock
"Still-Life with Grapes," Joseph Légaré
"His Best Toy," Katherine E. Wallis
"Brillo Soap Pads Boxes," Andy Warhol
"Yellow Wall," Olivier Mosset Suisse
(The wall, itself, is the artwork. The artist permits for two other paintings to be hung on the wall.)
"Waterloo Bridge: The Sun in a Fog," Claude Monet
"No. 29, 1950," Jackson Pollock
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