So after a relatively short (9 hours) bus ride I arrived in Montreal and was picked up by Mark, which made a nice change to having to drag all my bags through a city to find my accommodation.
It was great to see Jen and Aidan, Aidan is now 2 and a half years old, so has obviously changed so much in the last 18 months since I last saw him.
On my first evening Mark and Jen also introduced me to the delights of sushi which was surprisingly good.
Mark had the first 4 days of my visit off work so we took Aidan to the park, spent an afternoon in St Anne where Aidan had his first pony ride, had breakfast at Eggspectations and Mark and I went into the city and saw Hancock at the cinema.
On Monday I walked with Mark into the city and left him to go to work with a plan to meet for lunch. After another great breakfast at Eggspectations I walked to the Plateau area and browsed the shops, stopped for a drink and checked my emails to find that Mark was now working from home so with that in mind I walked back through the city and out to Westmount, had some lunch and walked back to the house.
On Tuesday Jen, Aidan and I all went to Ikea, picked up some bits that Jen wanted and returned home. Tuesday night is Marks gaming night with the boys so while they were busy playing Jen and I drank lots of wine and put the world to rights!
On Wednesday we were all a little tired! So apart from grocery shopping and starting to plan for our weekend in the country not a great deal went on! Although I did cook a curry for dinner, the first time I’ve made one from scratch and it seemed to go down well.
Today we are getting ready for our trip and will be leaving this afternoon for 4 days in the country to help celebrate Richard’s 70th birthday.
