poutine ahoy!

I don't remember what has happened since I last updated!
Um. We went on a picnic at Mont Royal, it was a really long and beautiful walk to the top of the little mountain. The others mocked my fear of squirrels dropping out of the trees to try to steal our food, but allowed the move from a table to the grass away from the trees. Later we visited the cross on the peak. At night the cross lights up and can be seen across the city.

Another night we went and saw David O'Doherty perform as part of the Just For Laughs comedy festival. That was Thursday, I think, because on Friday Jason and I stayed here in Longueiul. There is some knd of festival happening in the main street here. We danced to Cuban music and browsed markets and ate seafood in a nice cafe. Pretty much it was just a nice, low-key date, just the two of us, while Claire, Dane and Maddy went and saw a band in the city.

During summer in Montreal, fireworks are let off the Jacques-Cartier bridge twice a week, on Wednesday and Saturday nights. We'd been going to go see them on Wednesday, but they were rained out and we ended up spending the evening in a karaoke bar in the gay district instead. Last night was our last opportunity to see the fireworks before we leave for New York, so we went down to the Old Port and watched the fireworks. They played classical music along with the fireworks, to heighten the experience, except all the music was movie scores, which made it kind of hilarious. The fireworks are also themed. Last nights were China themed, which meant lots of Olympic-ring inspired fireworks. After we went for poutine with a Montrealer friend of Maddy's who knows all the good places.

On Sundays there is percussion in the Mont-Royal park, which we had been planning to attend today, but we woke up to pouring rain so that's off and instead we are sitting around Anik's house in Longueiul watching CNN.

Next stop: New York!