Tuesday, May 17, 2011 Kingston

6:20 am

The temperature is +7 C, with a high predicted of +13 C.

From the Environment Canada website:

Today Cloudy. 40 percent chance of drizzle early this morning. Periods of rain beginning near noon. Wind becoming northeast 20 km/h this morning. High 13. UV index 5 or moderate. Tonight Periods of rain. Wind northeast 20 km/h becoming light after midnight. Temperature steady near 12. Normals Max: 19°C Min: 9°C

We are planning to go to Ottawa today and see a museum or two. The temperatures should return to near normal values tomorrow but the rain is supposed to stay all week.

4:00 PM

We are back from Ottawa. The morning was spent at the Canadian War Museum. It was superb. The facility was very modern and the overall approach was truly a history of war in Canada as well as Canadian forces overseas in both a military and a peacekeeping role. I was impressed with the overall design and learned a lot.

We had lunch in a nearby small Vietnamese restaurant. The spring roll vermicelli noodle dish was delicious.

Driving back to Kingston we tried a little birding but soon gave it up due to the weather. We did see a Sandhill Crane while on the road and almost hit a deer on one of the back roads.