Sunday, March 23, 2014

When is winter over?

We've done our best to keep our minds off the bone chilling cold.  We rented out a crazy castle in Old Montreal where we had a murder mystery night.  Lauren got to get murdered!!!





We did a trip to Quebec City for Winter Carnival.  We toured the Ice Hotels, saw the Ice Sculptures and checked out the Ice Castle too!



 




It's officially one year in Montreal.  We went out for Greek food to celebrate!


Go Canada Go!!!  Like much of Canada, we woke up at 5am to watch the gold metal game.



We finally got to see our nation's capitol.  Ottawa is so clean and bland!  I love it.  Polar opposite to Montreal!




Saturday, January 25, 2014

L'automne et l'hiver

It's been a while since our last post!  We've gone from hot, balmy, 30-degree temperatures to bone chilling, arctic vortexy, -30.  Here's what we've been up to over the last few months!

We kicked off the fall by staying in this sweet cabin near Mont-Tremblant, where we got to cook lots of food and go hiking and kayaking.





Colin came out to visit!  We had a great time patio hopping and checking out some cool pubs and restaurants.  Hope you come back, Colin, and we can go to a Hab's game!


Montreal is a pretty beautiful place during the fall.  We made the most of the nice weather and spent as much time as we could outside.  We even got to watch the Montreal Marathon, which apparently runs right in front of our apartment!




We did a trip down to Vermont to check out the Norman Rockwell-esque city of Burlington.  (If Norman Rockwell's pictures included a self-serve Bloody Mary bar....)




For Halloween, we went to the Rocky Horror Picture Show.  Ooh la la!



Cousin Kaleigh came to visit too!  We took her to the Biosphere by accident because we meant to go to the Bio-dome... which is way better.  Oops!  Sorry Kaleigh!



Christmas time was pretty quiet with just the two of us (with the exception of my giant work party!)  We opened some presents, went for a walk in the snow and cooked up some food.  Thanks for all the cards, presents and holiday wishes that everyone sent us!





And Auntie Linda came to visit!  This time, we got it right and went to the Bio-dome.  Way better that that boring Biosphere.  It had penguins!


 




We've been trying to brave the frigid arctic vortex and go outside.  We checked out the Fetes des Neiges festival, where we went skating and had a look at the frozen St Lawrence.  There are a ton of family activities there, like snowshoeing, inner tubing, dog sledding, and they seem to do some sort of child-sled racing thing.  Place your bets!












Monday, September 2, 2013

Quebec City: Part Deux

Dad and Jane came out to visit.  We showed off the city, went to Mont-Royal and the St-Josef Oratory, celebrated Italian Week, and indulged in way too much fine french cuisine.


 


We all did a trip to Quebec City which was even cuter and more picturesque than I remember.





Now that summer is almost over we're trying to squeeze out every last drop.  We've gone the Mont-Royal, Crescent and Monkland street festivals and got some beach time at Oka beach on the Ottawa river.