So, on Monday morning, thanks to my brother-in-law's complaining about the loud, annoying people, the hotel decided to appease him a little. Thus, we had breakfast at the hotel restaurant, on them. I had the most delicious blueberry waffles ever (was dying for a croissant, but didn't think that would be enough to tide me over, since we had a long journey ahead of us).
Before we left, we went to St Laurent, to see all the cute stores that we had passed by the night before, but were closed. Ell and I went into a whole bunch of different shops. Saw some very cute things, but didn't buy anything. My sis and bro-in-law took the time to buy a couple of outfits for my niece, as well as croissants for all of us! Good thinking on their part. (I ate my croissant on the drive home. Seriously. Best croissant EVER)
>We also went up to the top of Mount Royal. Google's directions sucked, so we got a little lost (not really lost... but not up the mountain either) ... eventually I followed the signs, and got us there. The view was amazing, but it's too bad it wasn't a sunnier day. I forgot that I had white balanced my camera in a red room the night before, so the first few shots I got were... well. Blue. I uploaded one of them, thought it looked kind of cool. But I'm glad I remembered to white balance back to normal again, because a bunch of blue shots would have been annoying. Here's a few shots from the top of the mountain:
From there, we began the 6-hour drive home. Ell and I passed the time with a few rounds of "F*** Marry Kill" - and she gave me an awful round, where I had to choose between Danny Michel, Jack Johnson and Jim Cuddy. How could she?!!? We also sang some of our favourite tunes at the top of our lungs - Sheryl Crow, anybody? Perfect for a road trip.
Except when you're driving so slow you're practically crawling. V was leading the way, and he was going so slow that I was ranting about it every two seconds to poor Ell. At one point, I got so annoyed that I turned to her and said, "okay, enough of this, we're never going to get home going 90!" and I passed him. Haha. I ended up dropping Ell off and being back home before 10pm though, which was the goal. So it was all good.
Fabulous long weekend. I definitely want to do stuff like that more often. :)
3 comments:
trip sounds so nice! I love that squirrel pic in the snow. Glad you had fun!
Thanks! It was a great little get away... now I need a longer one ;) LOL
Sounds like an awesome trip!! MTL is 12 hours away for me :(
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