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Monday, June 15, 2009
Montreal
Northern Renter and his family took us to dinner in the Old Town section of Montreal.
I stayed a week in Montreal once, there is a great thai place called Chao Phraya there. www.chao-phraya.com
All that french food and all I remember was the Thai place.
Go around bagging on Celine Dion, they love that. For an extra special treat pretend you are from Toronto instead of California for the proper Montreal experience. :-)
I also was at Mont Tremblant resort for another week but during the summer, that place looked like it would be great during the winter.
Hey, ED. Nice 3rd party data. Stop by and pet the cats while we're gone. Thanks for the tip. We had Thai in Westchester before the flight. We're going for dim sum tomorrow. Nom nom nom.
Yeah Northern Renter explained how being from US got us a pass on poor French. He said the same thing.
Hi all, We had a very nice dinner; Rob, your family were charming and my wife and I were very touched by the crayons. The boy who sat opposite you told me this morning that they were particularly good crayons "..because they let you draw animals and most everything else."
As for sales tax.... better get used to it. The only question is whether it should be visible (as it is here) or included in the sales prices, as is often done in Europe.
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The Tower Observatory is pretty amazing. Did you get to go up in it?
Northern Renter and his family took us to dinner
How many buckets of fish did you manage to polish off?? :)
I stayed a week in Montreal once, there is a great thai place called Chao Phraya there.
www.chao-phraya.com
All that french food and all I remember was the Thai place.
Go around bagging on Celine Dion, they love that. For an extra special treat pretend you are from Toronto instead of California for the proper Montreal experience. :-)
I also was at Mont Tremblant resort for another week but during the summer, that place looked like it would be great during the winter.
Seggy,
No, that picture is from their amazing botanical gardens.
Avg,
LOL! I did have the salmon. Prices are expensive but then this is a big international city and the provincial and national VAT totaled near 20%.
Hey, ED. Nice 3rd party data. Stop by and pet the cats while we're gone. Thanks for the tip. We had Thai in Westchester before the flight. We're going for dim sum tomorrow. Nom nom nom.
Yeah Northern Renter explained how being from US got us a pass on poor French. He said the same thing.
Take a kayak!
You're part frog, Rob. They should love you.
Hi all,
We had a very nice dinner; Rob, your family were charming and my wife and I were very touched by the crayons. The boy who sat opposite you told me this morning that they were particularly good crayons "..because they let you draw animals and most everything else."
As for sales tax.... better get used to it. The only question is whether it should be visible (as it is here) or included in the sales prices, as is often done in Europe.
NR
**WE INTERRUPT THIS LOVE-FEST TO BRING YOU THE FOLLOWING BULLETIN**
Obama to California: Drop Dead.
One other thing,
The topic of Snowflake never came up. Maybe we should have ordered wheat grass shots.
NR
California - you just been Barack'd!
Sun,
I think you mean Barack-rolled.
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