When we got back to the hotel, my system was so busy digesting the pounds of butter and quarts of cream ingested, that I couldn't sleep all night. Also our hotel was right next to the American embassy (I see now that this is an example of real foreshadowing!) and you couldn't drive to our hotel without getting approval beforehand from the police, so my imagination, fueled by the bottles of wine, was running rampant with scary terrorist scenarios.
lol..then you do *not* want to stay at the Chateau Laurier Hotel should you ever visit our fair city. The new U.S. embassy takes up 2 or 3 city blocks between the Chateau, the National Gallery, and the old market which is the main tourist area of the city. And very pesky it is... they have blocked off lanes of traffic all around it using big concrete barriers (and it was already a very congested area to begin with). For awhile, people were rather annoyed, but we've sort of gotten used to the fortress in the middle of the busiest part of the city. It's kind of a weird thing though.. from what I've been told, the architectural design program was for it to look like a battleship, and that's exactly what it resembles.. a giant concrete aircraft carrier with a humongous gun-turret-like thing on top, plonked down into the middle of the city between all of the historic buildings. Hopefully it's not equipped with cannons or some other such thing. (o:
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