-Barbara Bush
"It's the game of life. Do I win or lose? One day they are gonna shut the game down. I gotta have as much fun and go around the board as many times as I can before it's my time to leave."
-Tupac Shakur
"Food for the body is not enough. There must be food for the soul."
-Dorothy Day
"A good snapshot keeps a moment from slipping away."
Eudora Welty
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| LIFE is a JOURNEY... ENJOY the RIDE! Here we are a week ago in Old Montrealenjoying our FAMILY FUN and little ride with our horse, PRINCESS, and our buggy driver, JUDY! Enjoy the journey of our little MONTREAL vacation filled with FAMILY, FUN, FOOD...and ofcourse many PHOTOS! |
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| While in Montreal from July 3rd- 12th inclusive we stayed at this old brownstone bed and breakfast HOTEL AMBROSE on Stanley and Sherbrooke. I made it to some of the Montreal JAZZ FESTIVAL for many free concerts. We had many wonderful meals out... the first was at a restaurant called LANTERN, which served delicious and beautifully displayed Asian food. We frequented our favourite little salad bar, MANGIA, daily for yummy healthy salads. |
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| JULY 5th...We enjoyed some MANGO FLOWERS at the jazz Festival... We enjoyed all our time spent with Colin (who has requested his face not show up on the internet!)... and his girlfriend, CARO and her darling cat, FILOU at their great home. We enjoyed East Indian food that day at PUNJAB PALACE. |
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| JULY 6th...We met Colin and Caro for the BEATLES EXHIBIT in OLD MONTREAL, followed by a delicious meal at PAPILLON restaurant. |
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| JULY 6th... Colin picked up Jana and Mariah at the airport so they could join the FAMILY FUN! They didn't waste any time before going shopping, while I took in more jazz festivities... followed by a delicious mac and cheese dinner at Colin and Caro's... and a game of YATZE... or YUM as the French call it! |
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| JULY 7th... Here are Jana, Mariah, Brian and I in our hotel breakfast room... we did a small tour of OLD MONTREAL complete with horse and buggy ride. Later we met Colin and Caro at a tasty Mexican Restaurant called TAQUERIA MEX on St. Laurent St. |
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| JULY 7th... Jana, Mariah and I went to a fabulous TAP SHOW at the Historic RIALTO THEATRE called RHYTHM LIVES. There were several TAP numbers all performed to LIVE JAZZ MUSIC... (Right up my alley!) Mariah even got an autograph from one of the oldest performers in the show, a fellow named BOB FITCH, who was not only a tapper, but a singer and magician. He was so cute with Mariah, making the pen disappear after! ARTHUR DUNCAN famous tapper from the Lawrence Welk show also performed and for 80 years old, that guy can sure still tap! |
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| JULY7/8th... After the Tap show... we got some bedtime snacks ... and the next day was all about shopping for us girls while Brian rested up! He met us downtown for a CHINESE LUNCH where Mariah learned how to eat with chopsticks! Mariah got some new clothes and perfume and had fun shopping!!! |
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| JULY 8th... We went to Colin and Caro's again and we walked to a restaurant close by called POUTINVILLE, to introduce Mariah to POUTINE! We played more YATZE again before another METRO RIDE back to our hotel. |
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| JULY 9th... GIRL & GUY BONDING... us girls went shopping again...and coffering... lunching and out for a day of fun... While Brian spent the day with Colin who took the day off to bond with his dad! Mariah took the pics of her and me at Starbucks!!!... (she is such a cutie!) |
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| JULY 9th...More shopping fun followed by a visit with Colin and Caro again. Mariah idolized CARO and her cat FILOU, and it was a mutual admiration!!! |
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| JULY 9th... After our fun filled bonding day... we headed to a PIZZA place in colin's neighbourhood called...PIAZZETTA. Mariah ate her first ever Bruschetta and had her own pizza, too... (we all did) My GREEK VEGGIE pizza is featured in photo here... YUM!!! We did a little photo shoot after... but had to cut Colin out of the pic... got so many good ones of him this night! JULY 10th... Jana and Mariah flew back home and Brian and I had a low key day and a delicious spaghetti supper made by Colin. |
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| JULY 11th... Brian and I made our traditional trip to the famous SCHWARTZ'S for smoked beef sandwiches with red pepper and dill! THIS is just SO DELICIOUS... worth the wait in line! |
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| JULY 11th... This was our final night in Montreal which we spent at JARDIN NELSON in Old Montreal noted for it's yummy food, and live JAZZ MUSIC. We just had appies and dessert there and headed back to pack for our trip home the next day. Colin was practicing with his punk Rock band this night so had said his farewell the previous night... it was a bit of a tearful send off!!! wink wink! |
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| The clowns in Old Montreal were so cute on our final night. We enjoyed a day with just Beau yesterday, while Mariah went to a friends... the above pic was when Jana dropped off Beau... and the one with Brian and the kids was taken just this morning when the kids stopped by for a bit! This last couple of weeks has been a whirlwind of FAMILY, FUN, FOOD and PHOTOS... in fact I have taken a grand total of over 500 between my iphone and my camera since we traveled to Montreal on the 3rd. (I am a bit over the top... but I figure you can never go back and capture the memories again... so having lots of photos never hurts!!!) It is only a problem when I am trying to select them for my blog!!! COLIN prefers to not have his face appear on the internet, so that is why he does not show up in any of the pics... but I got several awesome pics of him this trip... happy to report! I kind of outlined the trip somewhat under all the above photos...and this only gives a slight taste of the FAMILY FUN we shared. I feel blessed always to have such a loving family, and it is always so good to have time to bond together as a unit. I am a real home body, though... so although we love our annual trips to Montreal... I am always very excited to rerun home again. I was so grateful that my neighbour Heather looked after our mail, papers, and plants...and my brother looked after mowing our lawn while we were gone. Shuffle was pooped out after 9 days of playing at the Doggie Day Care... and was so happy for our return as well. We spent a day of bonding with Beau by himself yesterday. He is always lots of smiles and laughs and brightens our days up so much. My sister-in-law Bev popped by for a visit yesterday, too. Today we joined our good friends, Brenda and her husband , Vern along with our other friend named Vern as well... for a good breakfast at Grainfields. Vern Findlay just recently lost his mother on July 1st, after losing his dad just this past February. We will be joined by family tonight for supper... Jana and the kids will come along with my brother Brian and our good friend Vern, too. So I am guessing the FAMILY, FUN, FOOD and PHOTOS will continue then! Anyone considering a trip to Montreal in the future... I highly recommend it... it is one of CANADA'S TREASURES! Thanks to COLIN and CARO for being such gracious hosts to us while we visited Montreal... they are the perfect couple for each other. It makes us so pleased to see just how happy the two of them are together. On that note... here is my rhyme of the day... It's nice to get away... in fact it's a lot of FUN! We just returned from a little trip, that was a special one. It's so nice to spend time with family and just bond... Doing the kinds of things of which we are all so fond. One of those very things would have to be to eat... We had some food there that just couldn't be beat! I captured every detail, every moment, and thing, To help remember the memories that this trip did bring. PHOTOS are the way to keep the memories around, And we had so many to please us and astound! From dining out to shopping and simply hanging out, Many things to brings us smiles for years to come, no doubt! FAMILY is the root of where all the FUN did start... And all the things we did while there, came right from the heart. Until we may return again, the memories live on... They will DANCE on in our hearts, and never will be gone! |
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