vacation pt.2

This day started with us SLEEPING IN! Ahhh, it was so great, of course I rolled over and looked at the clock at 5:30, but I didn't have to do anything about it. We finally rolled out of bed somewhere after 9:00. Rob tried to hit up the hot tub, but it turns out our hotel only had a pool. We wandered out to get breakfast/lunch around 11:00. We headed towards St. Catherine's street. There was a little section that Rob wanted me to see that he remembers from a visit while he was in Drum Corp when they stopped in Montreal.
Everything was really dead, apparently people don't get going early on Sunday (and it wasn't early). Most of the cafes did not even open until 11:30 or Noon. The place we settled on offered Fresh Squeezed orange juice and a bread and fruit plate on Sundays. I had my first chocolate croissant, yummy! The French love their bread, every place we ate offered bread.

After lunch/brunch, we wandered around St. Catherine's some more. Rob took me into the the Underground. The Underground is 33 km of underground shopping malls, stores anchored by bigger stores. I can't believe how many people were shopping, and how many stores there were. We passed two stores strictly dedicated to selling men's underwear!
After the Underground and a stop to get some chocolate, we visited the Modern Art Museum. Sunday just happened to be free museum day, so why not! Rob and I are not big art people, I think we appreciate what we like/understand, but everything else doesn't seem to have much meaning to us. We did see a nice display of suburban items from the 80's. I guess we were feeling old seeing a Apple IIE in a display case.

After our museum visit, we went back to the hotel, rested a tad and waited for Ion to come pick us up. We had dinner at Rob's old co-workers house in a suburb of Montreal. He and his wife are from Romania, and are duel citizens. They live in Montreal, Ion works, and his wife stays home with there two kids. They were quite the hosts, we ate really well and got to explore more about what living in Canada is like.