The dreaded photo post! Part 1

*Dun dun dun!*

Well, after the many woes we were having with the internet and the computer earlier, I know have fast internet and wireless is now set up in the house. Yay! (No Skype until my box of stuff arrives. My headset is in it)

The photo above, I took at the Calgary airport (The beep was on) in the Westjet terminal which is perhaps the best terminal on earth if I do say so myself.

And so it begins:


This was along the bridge as we made our way from Île-Pierrot south-west of Montréal Island










I tried several times to get a nice shot of downtown Montréal. The picture fails to capture the bigness of downtown Montréal. You need panoramic lenses or camera in order to capture it.

The photo on the right is a nice shot, but you get silly reflection from the window =(











This is as the train was pulling into Gare Centrale. You can see them I don't think here but there's cables above for the commuter trains headed for Deux-Montagnes (though I have no clue if those cars are still in use). Speaking of the train, they're expanding it all the way to the Couronne Nord (north-east of Montréal.). That's pretty far.


DAY 2


My street, yep...The sign right near our old appartment at Côte-St-Luc and Clanranald in NDG. Well, it's my home and an avenue where I spent the better part of my life exploring. It was along this street that I learned how to ride my bike, where I walked down to Queen Mary, where I frolicked in the snow and just jumped in the multicoloured leaves and picked the dandelions. My most vivid and best memories were lived on this street. Good times.

4635 Clanranald. Such a great appartment. We lived here on the top floor (4th. you can kind of see it) on the other side of the building. Outside my window, I had these HUGE maple trees. Huge. So I could watch the leaves go from green, to yellow and red and orange and brown, see the frost all over the branches and the buds. But then they cut them down and built houses where they once stood. Me=not a happy camper. :(


I wish I had taken a picture of the sinegogue further down but anyways, along Claranald there's a beautiful church made of grey stone followed by a sinegogue. This church is located on the next street over on Earnscliffe but I used to pass by it lots with mum and dad.








MacDonald Park. It's a small park that's the length of a block. They've changed it since I was here last. That red-blue jungle gym wasn't there before. The swings were moved and only 4 of the maybe 8 or more see-saws are still left. The swings are still the same. I loved this park. Much fun. My favorite tall yellow corkscrew slide was gone and replaced with a red one though. *laughs*



The wading pool! Though, if you heard on the news (don't know if it made it that far) you'd've heard about the pools in Laval and Montréal being filthy (Only 6 pools out of the 30+ maybe 50) but TQS and TVA the last two news stations I would ever watch did an undercover investigation of pools in the city and found many of the pools' bacteria levels were dangerously high So lots of pools were shut down for a bit while tests were conducted. This pool gets filled from lion-mouth fountains on either end. ( I could be wrong...)

DAY 3


This is Sainte-Catherine Ouest basically the so-called heart of downtown. The underground city, Eaton's Centre, Place Montréal Trust, Le Faubourg (which I didn't get to go to), the shops, the random strip clubs, good restaurants, a random 24hr Second Cup, Place Cathédrale, everything below ground and above is a must-see (aside from the strip clubs...). As you can see, it's not busy. From 4 until 6-7, this street is congested to the max.


This is a picture of McGill University (series of castle-like buildings with the red-white flag) from Av McGill College (still along Ste-Catherine). That huge mass of green over there? That's a tiny little bit of Mont-Royal. Keep in mind, we're still relatively far from it. (McGill is located on the Plateau methinks)

Picture of the entrance to Place Montréal Trust from the side in front of the Indigo's bookstore.

More to come tomorrow!