It was Walter's first birthday a couple of days ago, we missed the party- Ann started in a tennis league that night. Anyways we did manage to pick up a loot bag yesterday and LL opened up his first ever Kinder egg or whatever it is called.
Sunday, September 17, 2006
sunset
Ann's been back to work for a couple of weeks now. The OSM was getting a lot of press with Nagano officially starting. On one of the first nights Ann was at work I took LL up to the roof to catch this. It's rapidly cooling down in Montreal- good bye summer.
Sunday, September 03, 2006
goat
Yesterday we went to the Brome Fair- one of the oldest fairs in North America (has been running since the 1800's). The drive to the Eastern Townships took a little longer than expected but the cotton candy, poutine and buffalo chips made it totally worth it. Here are some pics...
Brome Fair- train ride
Unfortunately LL thought he was being shipped off so the operator had to stop the train and pull LL off.
Thursday, August 31, 2006
Liberty
On Saturday we took the train to the Big Apple. Ann found a house swap on Craig's list so we did somewhat of a 3-way swap. It was my first time since I was 7? Anyways it was a great trip though brief. I had to head to Ottawa so we cut our trip short by a day. The train ride was loooong (about 12 hours) especially for LL. It didn't help that our car was full of crusties.
Williams Tsien
Sunday morning we headed to the American Folk Art Museum designed by Willams and Tsien. ( I think it was on 53rd Street). It was even nicer than I had imagined and only 9 dollars to enter. LL had fun running amok while I looked at drywall and concrete reveals.
D
We met with D after the museum and headed to a Japanese place for some home-style Japanese food (55th street between 5th and 6th Aves). It was yummy and the noodles did lots to warm us up. Afterwards they headed to a Amy's to see the new baby while I hung out at Barnes and Noble to avoid Amy's 4 (5?) cats. Afterwards we met up and headed to D's (near Harlem) for some good ol' Dominican roast chicken (only 12 dollars to feed the 4 of us!).
TS
Monday morning we headed to the pier to catch a cruise. We took the subway again and re-surfaced in Times Square.
Boat
The people we swapped houses with had a friend who captained a sightseeing boat around Manhattan- so they got us on a 3 hour ride for free. It was a good way to get a feel of where the various neighbourhoods and boroughs were in relation to Manhattan. A good way to kill off a few more rainy hours too.
Steph
Monday night we caught up with Ann's friend from Chicago- had some pizza in the West Village then went for dessert at beard papa's (yummy custard filled puffs). Afterwards, we headed home and met up with Ann's cousin Jummy (sorry- forgot to take a photo).
Saturday, August 26, 2006
sunrise
This morning I woke up early to drive to Ottawa, but first I went up to our roof to take this shot. Happy Birthday Mo.
Chinese dinner
Last week Ann's uncle, cousin (Nolan) and aunt came to Montreal for a brief visit so we made a rare visit to a chinese restaurant for dinner. On an unrelated note: yesterday, LL suddenly mastered how to use chopsticks and spent the night picking up green beans and eating them. Miracle.
Friday, August 25, 2006
Cap S.J.
LL has become quite good friends with a girl in the neighbourhood that we see at the park everyday. Last weekend we went to the farm with his friend and her family....I didn't know if her parents would approve of me posting photos of her on the internet- so here's LL. His friend is to his right.
Saturday, August 05, 2006
schoolbus
Last week Ann saw that there were free shuttle busses from Chinatown to the Olympic Basin where the dragon boat races were. She figured it'd be a great way to appease LL's love of busses. So we hopped aboard thinking we'd ride there and back and be back in time for dim sum. Anyways the crusty bus driver said we weren't allowed to just ride the bus and not watch dragon boats.....so.......
blowing bubbles
It's been pretty hot in Montreal over the past couple of weeks. We've been passing a lot of time outside on our balcony blowing bubbles.
Sunday, July 09, 2006
Zi Yuan's trike
This is a little out of sequence - a shot back in Montreal a few weeks ago on our dep. friend's daughter's trike.
Return to Grassi Lakes
After a two year hiatus, we ventured up to Grassi Lakes again, this time with stroller instead of carrier pack. At the top we had a nice picnic lunch.
holden close your mouth
H/J and Kai drove to Canmore to spend a few days with us. My parents were in Ottawa so it was just the Chows.
Olimpico 1
I wanted to post these earlier - we live in car honking central. Parc Avenue is generally filled with Greek restaurants (when they won the Euro Cup the street was mayhem), then there is St. Urbain (generally Portugese and failing that, Brazilian), two blocks over is St. Laurent (where the Italians parade up to LIttle Italy a few blocks to our north), and then a few blocks over is St. Denis where the French patriots congregate. Now that the WC is over everytime LL sees a flag he says "beep beep."
Back in the fields
A couple of weeks ago (before I exceeded my flickr account allowance) we went to St. Eustache to pick some strawberries. It was such a hit we plan on going back when rasberries are ready.
A and M arrive
This is Ali Yi Yi and Mike before "the scolding."
LL gave his best cold shoulder to Yi Yi after being told not to throw strawberries.
LL gave his best cold shoulder to Yi Yi after being told not to throw strawberries.
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