Bon temps à Montréal

Mark, Jaime and I have returned not much the worse for wear from our mini-trip to Montreal. This one was slightly less whirl-windy than usual, the result of taking it easy and doing whatever rather than planning for every minute. We stayed in with M's homemade brownies and generously-poured 'drunks' and had a great night talking and peer-pressuring M into facebook.

Saturday was a beautiful day, and we took advantage of the mild (only -5!) weather and walked around the Plateau, listening to the church bells (they ring every hour, on the hour, for an hour!) and trying all sorts of delicious things readily found in the Mont. Seriously though, Mark had a BOWL of gourmet, organic, single plantation, 70% cocoa hot chocolate. Realizing that hot chocolate should be consumed in association with going skating, we headed to Parc Lafontaine and talked ourselves into spending $14 on skate rentals (way better than a movie!) and strutted our stuff around the ice for a while.

Last year:


This year:



Feeling good after our little bit of exercise, we headed back to M's place, grabbed a Jaime and a Dave, and ate some more brownies pre-dinner. Yum. We headed out to L'academie with Erin, Sebastien, Elodie and Dawson, and splurged on deliciousness, followed by more deliciousness at Rockaberries (mmmm... I'm really glad that I made mark get that crumble!). I may have eaten a bit too well - upon getting to the bar, I promptly fell into a state of barley awake.

Sunday morning included a sleep-in, some poutine for Mark, and a duct-tape wallet, and only semi-sad departure (see you in a month and a half, M!). Hooray for road trips :)