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So we've had some pretty bad weather this entire trip, but Quebec was a real doozy!
We enjoyed a nice brief breakfast with Francine, and then re-packed the car (in the rain) and then drove on. Today we were Montreal bound!
It was absolutely pouring rain and our pour Jerusalem just can't block off that much rain with big trucks and semis cruising past. It definitely wasn't the safest of trips but we did make it to Montreal (and it was still pouring).
We had arrived around lunch time, forgetting that check-in to our B&B was not until about 3p.m. Luckily our host was around and he was happy to let us bring in our stuff for the day. He only had one other guest so us being there a little early was no inconvenience. Hooray!! We could hide out of the rain for a while....
And that is just what we did! We had not planned to do a lot of touring during our afternoon in Montreal, and that become even more clear as the rain continued to pelt down. Our host told us that this was the worst rain storm/weather that Montreal had seen recently. Great! We seem to be bringing the ridiculously crappy weather with us for this trip...
We caught up with some E-mails and planning and blogging, (so that you lovely folks can continue to read our blogs!), and then we decided we had better brave the crappy rain storm to investigate some of Montreal.
We trekked out of the B&B--which was located at a very, very convenient place...just a few blocks from St. Catherine Street and a couple blocks from the Subway station. Lucky us!
We headed up the street (through the tunnel) and were on the search for the Architecture Museum but we failed miserably.
We were told to look behind us when we got out of the tunnel and so we did and so we found a building. We walked around it...and found a couple signs that appeared to be close to that which we recalled from the website, but....we couldn't see any signs of museum stuff (only offices) and we definitely, definitely could not find a door open for people like us (AKA: the public) to trek into...
With our complete and utter failure to try and find the museum and getting wet feet, soggy clothes, and coming close to breaking the umbrella we figured we had better get a move on.
We walked around St. Catherine's Street on the search for food, but not a lot was open until 5:30pm for the dinner hours.
We walked up most of one side, and down the other and then maybe back up the same side but further, and then somehow came across a mexican restaurant that was open! Hooray. It, was also super, super busy--most likely because the hoards of people braving the rain also got sick of getting soaked and decided to find a place to eat (and it was the only reasonable pricing place open at 5pm)!
Lucky us we got a table and we watched the rain fall.....while we warmed up inside!!
We enjoyed our Mexican feast and then, once again, braved the pouring rain back to our B&B.
St. Catherine is a very busy street. It boasts a lot of restaurants and places to shop (as does most of Montreal) and it was nice because it was so convenient and close to where we were staying.
As we walked back home we noticed numerous umbrellas that had been thrown into the garbages over the course of the day. The wind was something terrible and many peoples umbrellas just sort of crumbled under the wind...or snapping...or just not working all together.
Our umbrella, thankfully, worked surprisingly well (Thank-you China--it was a great purchase!) and we made it back to the B&B somewhat dry...but our feet/shoes were absolutely drenched.
(Today I was cursing and wondering why on Earth I did not own a pair of rubber boots)--! The answer is: In Calgary it snows more than it rains, so snow boots are a much better purchase!
Once we arrived back at our B&B we did a little bit more E-mailing and blogging and downloading photos and whatever else it is we do and then we....
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