"Tales From The Trip"

CJOH TV (CTV Ottawa)

Continued After the family reunion (more hugs and cousins!) we decided to spend Monday tooling around Nova Scotia. We had a great time exploring Halifax and Peggy's Cove. By Tuesday, we re-discovered the phone numbers to the TV station and called "just to see what would happen". We were told that there was a slim chance we could get on that week's show (!) so we told them to check out our website to see who we were, etc. We just started driving West and checking our messages. Well they left one saying that if we could get to Ottawa by "1:30 tomorrow", we could be on that day's show. It was now Tuesday noon, in Halifax! Both firm believers that life unfolds as it should, we high-tailed it to Ottawa!

Lollygagging in Nova Scotia

We took turns driving all night and got to town with enough time to do laundry, drop some CDs off on consignment at Compact Music in the Gleeb (a neighbourhood of Ottawa), and make it to the TV studio with time to spare!

	Made it!!!!

Our taping was a great experience! Because of cutbacks, the station has pared down to a skeleton staff, and while waiting for 3 guys to return from lunch, we had a great time taking pictures on the sets and acting the fools. Steve made me laugh so hard that it was threatening my singing voice, so luckily those boys came back when they did. You never saw two people straighten up so quickly!

The taping itself went smoothly, and we were quite surprised to find no actual cameramen! The cameras were all robotic!

We aired on the next day's noon news hour, on August 24th. The whole experience was one smooth example of synchronicity! Not to mention how far we'll go to be on TV!

In the studio after taping the show

Thanks to Deb Weyman for helping us out! Another example of the great folks we've met on this trip!

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Steve Elliott & Lucie Walker
PO Box 74153
Hillcrest R.P.O.
Vancouver, BC
V5V 5C8

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