Dino Tweetup

Last night, the girls and I chose to beat the heat and avoid the soccer pitch. Ottawa hit the hottest day on record: at its peak, the day hit 36°C—factor in the humidity and it felt more like 46°C!

I said hot, not H.O.T.!

Luckily, we already had these plans to go to our air-conditioned Canadian Museum of Nature, where we attended a 3-D dino tweetup. The evening included a 3-D film about the final days of the dinosaurs, narrated by Donald Sutherland.

At one point in the 20-minute film, Sutherland said that the Earth was hotter than we've ever known. Clearly, he wasn't talking about yesterday's temperatures!

The girls really enjoyed the film, and afterwards we explored a wildlife photo gallery before Lori and the girls went to one of their favourite areas of the museum: the bird gallery.

Meanwhile, I met up with some Ottawa tweeps and met some of my Twitter peeps for the first time. Great people!

So day two of our heatwave went fairly well. How did you beat the heat?