Our B & B was truly a good choice. We woke up and headed upstairs to a breakfast of French Toast with some of the best presentation I have ever seen. Our host was in a chef’s jacked as he served the meal with slivers of fruit purposefully decorating the plate. It was one of the best breakfasts we have had yet.
We made a plan and jumped into action. We returned to St. Catherine’s Street and towards the Eaton Centre. We were inside and downstairs into the Underground City. For those who have not been to Montreal this is quite a thing. It is um... huge. Nearly the entire downtown spans underground and connects. It is like Calgary’s Plus 15s, but uh... Minus 15.
Eventually we found uh... well... we didn’t know where we were, but we popped out of the Underground City and back to the realm of surface dwellers. When we found ourselves we headed to a nearby church. The first church we saw was a pretty impressive church, extremely impressive actually, as it is a ¼ scale version of the St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome. At ¼ it is enormous, and I cannot even imagine the immensity of the actual Basilica.
We took a few shots of another church and then headed to Old Montreal. It is not as impressive as Old Quebec in the walled city kind of way, but it has its own value in that it looks like an old metropolitan centre that was well used, well loved, and outgrown. I took special note to find the Bank of Montreal Building at the advice of my Father and tried to take photos amidst the construction. We then went to the famous cathedral where famous people get married – Celine Dion for example! Some while later we stopped for lunch, and being in Rome we did as the Romans did, and had some French Onion Soup and Coc au Ven (sp.?). Being overly fed and watered we continued through the Old City, and then, having our fill, we headed out towards the subway (seeing China Town... French China Town... on the way).
We took a train to the Olympic Park and took a few photos. We could not go in because of some strike nonsense and repairs or something like that... anyways, that did not stop us as we headed to the Botanical Gardens instead (3rd largest in the World). We wanted to see the Biodome, but there was a similar story to the Olympic Park so we stuck with the Botanical Gardens and Insectarium. It was amazing. You may notice from my photos that I thought it was hugely amazing as there are about a thousand photos of flowers and bonsai trees. That kind of place... is my kind of place. It was great to see the trees and plants and trees and everything! There is so much life in those kinds of places, it is hard to miss. We also managed to see many pumpkins in a pumpkin carving contest and some Chinese lanterns as the sun went down. It was a fantastic afternoon... it was not hard to understand why the people we saw getting wedding photos taken were getting them taken there.
We took the train back downtown and tried to make it to a game store that sold all sorts of game related things... like Legend of Zelda stuffed animals. We missed it by five minutes. Literally. Oh well, it is probably a good thing or else I would be broke, and Jerusalem would be full of... Legend of Zelda stuffed animals.
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