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Montréal

After a long, twelve hour, road trip, we arrived in Montréal on Saturday night. We found our lodging, Hotel Le Crystal, without any problems and were very happy at our choice.

Sunday, July 20th, we spent relaxing. Wanderlust set in and we left the hotel, grabbing a sandwich and Oignon Soupe to eat at Reuben's Deli. We ventured down Sainte Catherine and north to McGill University and visited the Redpath Museum. We grabbed pizza from Chez Dani's hole in the wall just down the street from the hotel and ate back in the hotel room.

Monday, July 21st, we ventured southeast to Pointe-à-Callière, an excellent Musèe, with an archaeological dig of Old Montréal. Pushing our luck, we nixed Ahnika's nap and had a late lunch at the museum's cafe, L' Arrivage. Delicious. Tammy had the salmon tartar and I had the chef's pasta with duck confit. Let's just say that Ahnika did her best at making friends at other tables. We came back to the hotel, napped and went swimming before dinner of leftover pizza. Whew.

More Montréal photos on Flickr.

Time flies when...

I'm not quite sure what happened to January. Ferris Bueller was right on the money when he said,

"Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it."

Luckily, the begining of January was rather relaxed. Take a look at some of the photos from our trip to Tamarindo, Costa Rica for proof.

Finally relaxing

We're finally settled in at the vacation home in Tamarindo, Costa Rica. The weather is excellent: a few clouds in the sky, but is very comfortable in the mid eighties.

The photo above is of the pool and terrace in the backyard and the house is very slick - large screened doors open to the pool and surrounding land.