j'aime montréal!
i'm home and had a totally awesome time!! i totally love montreal! now i understand why everyone goes on about how great it is, and i no longer have to feel resentful about being out of the loop! i love montreal and i think it loves me too! i ended up staying one extra night because by a crazy fluke chance i discovered that one of my favourite bands was performing saturday night at the time to laugh comedy club and i KNEW that was my only chance to see them so i HAD to take advantage of it or else live the rest of my life regretting it.
i was a busy girl, and crammed a lot into 6 days & 5 nights.
things i did in montréal:
tuesday: arrived, got settled in hotel, walked up rue sainte-catherine, rode the metro just for fun.
wednesday: went to work, visited holocaust museum, toured museum of contemporary art, had fancy dinner on rue crescent.
thursday: went to work, attended cuban exhibition at museum of fine art, walked around old montreal.
friday: worked half-day, took AMT train down to central station, strolled streets of old montreal (saw habitat 67, city hall), hung out in place jacques-cartier, knitted in park, checked into hostel, took city bus up mount royal, had dinner with michel in the plateau.
saturday: slept in, saw permanent exhibition at museum of fine art, walked to rue saint-laurent, took a trip to the biodome, went up olympic stadium, attended cut copy concert(!!).
things i ate in montréal:
• cafeteria food at the huge bbd aerospace plant
• salmon at an italian restuarant
• a cajun chicken montreal bagel (sandwich)
• heart of palm
• roasted quail
• biscotti
• other things unworthy of mention
things i thought about in montréal:
• that i'm kind of glad that i waited until 28 for my first trip to montreal. the timing was perfect and so was the opportunity.
• that i felt like i was really living. it wasn't just montreal, it was that i was doing something different, branching out and expanding. i lived so many years with my life on pause, i feel like i'm actually living after spending all my life in still mode.
• forbidden fruit.
• whether i looked like a local or like an obvious tourist (when i wore my knapsack it was much more apparent).
• there isn't time to go into everything. perhaps a few things will come out in the coming days, other things will be left for one-on-one conversations.
you can see all 50 of my photos by clicking right here.
i wish i had some decent food preprepared in my kitchen. i'm feeling a need to raid a refrigerator.
with hearts on fire i reach out to you tonight.
4 comments:
woohoooo!! i'm glad you loved montreal. i would have had to stop being friends with you, otherwise ;) hahaha... just kidding. as if you could have not loved it.
ps i'm telling you - get some soups cooked so you always have them in the freezer! real soup - no campbell's crap.:)
hey... don't nag me woman! besides any frozen food in my freezer is for my work lunches, not for midnight snacks. i was craving homemade mac & cheese, or fresh bread, or watermelon. but my cupboards are empty because i've been away, and they'll most likely stay empty because i was away...
so, is the whole "changing your flickr account to francais" a Montreal inspired act of randomness?!?!
glad you're back!
hm, i didn't change my flickr account to french. that's bizarre. are you sure it's not just your computer? because i can barely speak french! so little, in fact, that i'd confidently say not at all! although, i wish i did.
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