Montreal Part 4: Food and Friends

One day while we were out walking we came across a street fair.  There were food vendors lining a couple of blocks.   We stopped at a few of them and tried some poutine, waffles, and puff balls.    If you don't know poutine, it is fries covered in gravy and cheese curds.  I also learned if you eat it multiple times in a week it goes straight to your waistline.  

There are a lot of interesting paintings on buildings throughout Montreal...

Tosh has known some guys through the programming world for at least 15 years.   One of them lives in Toronto and the other lives in Montreal.  The guy from Toronto came to Montreal while we were there and we all got together. The guy in Montreal has two kids that Finn enjoyed playing with...

We spent some time exploring the city on foot and stopped at a sandwich shop for lunch.   Then we stopped at a park and let the kids play...

Afterward we went back to their house and the kids played some more...

And there was more food....

Every day we ate so much I thought certainly I would be stocked for the next day and not even be hungry.    Yet every day I found my face in a big plate of poutine or something equally as awful. 

One day we planned to go really far so we all pulled out our tennis shoes. None of us ever wear tennis shoes anymore an were all excited how comfortable they made the walk...

There were no little Finn feet in the shot because they were already off running.  

We took Finn ice skating. He was so excited to get to do it. He wanted me to but I felt like it was too risky and I could possibly hurt myself.  Tosh took one for the team...

We felt like he might possibly break an ankle, which would be less traumatic than the back injury I would almost certainly end up with...

Finn took right to it...

Dad did good too!

Tosh and I are getting old.  We usually ended up at the apartment for a rest in the afternoon.   We would rest while Finn would bounce on our heads...

 A few shots of things around town...

 Notre Dame of Montreal....

 Finn decided to be a wise guy and act like he was picking his nose. 

Tosh's friend and co-worker happens to be from Montreal and was in town the same time as us. He took us to his dad's favorite Vietnamese restaurant...

It was delicious.  It was fun to have people to hang out with and visit with while in Montreal.