Sunday, March 15, 2009

Ou est le bonhomme?

That was for you Benji.

On Saturday we headed out early for the 2.5 hr drive to MONTREAL!!!!
Nervous about the possibility of having to speak French (not having done so since high school) I was excited about seeing this part of Canada...that isn't. Man, I could write a really long post about how Montreal wants to hang around pretending to be part of Canada but really just not wanting to be...but I won't bore you.

Here's where I had trouble culling the pics, so I hope they give you an ok idea of what it's like. We were a little rushed (had to return the hire car) so we decided to just try to get to Old Montreal, and Mount Royal (Mont Real...get it?)

Here's some of Old Montreal:









We stopped for brunch/coffee at a funky cafe that Jen found on her last trip here, and I thought i'd take this opportunity to point out that it was the perfect place for Jen and Lach's camera-nerding...



After walking down rue st paul, the main drag of old montreal i'm told, we went to check out Notre Dame Basillica:











How awesome??!! Non?