I often forget how close we are to another country. gabe has been up in st anne quebec at a ski/snowboarding trip oganized by concordia. Diane and left here around 1 and were walking aound Montreal just over 2 hours later.

Our plan was to check out the modern art museum whih i ha never seen. I ha thought it was open until 6 ..but learned when we got there it was only open 'till 5 today.. No problem.. We had a great walk through of the museums really fine modern and early 20th century art. It was so fun and peaceful walking through the spacious and almost empty galleries an looking at all that great art.

 

We got kicked out at 5 which suited me.. I was starvin. We found a. Really nice lebanese place 'garage beruit'

I had been hankering for stuffed grabe leaves (which i learned this evening are called 'warak enab' in lebanaon .. Not dolma) for weeks and this meal srathed that itch..

We finished our meal around seven and still had about an hour to kill so we wandered around that cold and windy city . We ducked into a bookstore is sitting on the floor and reading travel books until gabe's bus was near town.

As it happened, 4 hours before we wre luky int hat we had parked our car right around the corner from the concordia student center where the bus was to arrive … The kids were just pulling up as we rounded the corner.

 

2 hours later were back at home.. Preparing for anothr artic vortex..

Ok.. New week beginning, better get some sleep.

-night all,night sam

-me