August 30th: The Ottawa Museum of Nature is amazing - interactive (we played the Water Cycle game and Nellie won) and there are live critters: tarantula, scorpion, a zillion stick insects, though no NZ ones, frogs, toads, turtles, fish and more. Best museum ever. It closed at 8 and we were too far from the Tea Party to get there in time before it closed so we had dinner at the Elgin St Diner. Food was good, though not as good as at Zak's Diner. Took our time walking home as the girls had their gift-buying to do and it was too hot to move fast. I can live with warm summer evenings out on the town. Shame it was my last one here. Tomorrow: Vancouver.