February Hometown Six

Beverly City Hall

We’ve mostly completed Michelle’s February Hometown Six, so here are the photos! We do still need to get a photo of the ’shopping complex’, but since we don’t really have one within a short walk of our apartment, and I don’t regularly drive past one (in our hometown), we’ll have to make a special trip to catch it. So in the meantime, we’ve ‘cheated’ and posted a Google satellite photo of one of our shopping centers.

You can see all of our photos here. Click on the thumbnails to view the full-size photos with some extra informative notes!

Je me souviens

The Olympic Tower

This past weekend, Becky and I took a trip up to Montreal. Becky’s parents had given us Marriott gift certificates for Christmas so that we could have one last getaway before our baby was born. Neither of us had visited Montreal before, and it was a place we both wanted to go, so even though it’s a bit cold this time of year, up we went!

Highlights of the trip:

• Discovering that rural Quebec is much like rural Ohio.
• SpringHill Suites Old Montreal, our hotel. Great location, cozy suites, nice free breakfast. A much fancier hotel than we would normally stay in, but since we didn’t have to pay for it…
• Dinner at Restaurant du Vieux Port. Delicious peppercorn steak, cozy atmosphere, right around the corner from our hotel.
• Montreal High Lights, a festival designed to light up the cold dreary nights of February in Montreal. We did the Ice Slide and saw Choreography for Snowplows (like Blue Man Group with snowplows).
• The Underground City.
• The McCord Museum of Canadian History.
• Parc Jean-Drapeau.
• The Montreal Biosphère.
• Casino Montreal. We didn’t gamble, but we did enjoy their buffet!
• Parc Olympique, site of the 1976 Summer Olympics. We took a ride up the funicular to the Montreal Tower Observatory, as well as a guided tour of the stadium. Very cool!
• Poutine. Not a dish I would regularly want to eat, but an interesting regional delicacy nonetheless.
• St. Joseph’s Oratory. Second largest basilica dome next to St. Peter’s.

We’d definitely like to visit Montreal again, but next time we’ll do it when the weather is a bit warmer!

You can see all of our photos from the trip here.