We took a ride up to Montreal this weekend to visit my sister-in-law Theresa and her family. As always, we had an awesome time just hanging out, laughing, eating good food and staying up too late. It was especially fun since it was the first time the kids were old enough to acknowledge each other. I can honestly say I do not know which one of the two were more excited to see the other in the morning.
Our weekend was filled with screams of “ASH-AY!” from my niece Liliane who turns 3 in October. Lucky for her they are coming to see us next month…Or should I say lucky for Theresa and her husband Stephane. Asher had a blast playing with her toys and flashing his cheesy new grin at her.
There is a wading pool a short walk from their apartment so we headed over for a dip. Unfortunately I imagined a much smaller pool that Asher could sort of crawl in and out of and neither Matthew or I were prepared for the soaking that ensued. Matthew especially wasn’t prepared to fall while stepping into it, and I sadly wasn’t prepared with my video camera in hand.
Much time was spent in PJs and it took a bit of juggling to manage 2 nap and sleep schedules (a nice lesson for all)
On the last day I tried to get a great picture to cherish for years to come. Instead I got these:
In November ‘07 we went to Paris for Thanksgiving week and it was awesome. The first night we were there we had reservations at this place Hidden Kitchen, which was basically an underground restaurant it this couple’s house. I had read about it on a food blog and I’m a little crazy so we got ourselves on the list. After a late landing in the morning, practically missing our walking tour and a SIM card that wouldn’t work we had a shitty but exciting day. There was a metro strike and it took us 90 minutes to get there, eventually on foot. It was a weird night but really fun. We had an amazing time and stayed until the wee hours all jetlagged and silly.
I dug up this old pic of the menu:
I have thought about those 2 crazy kids over the past few years but without another trip to paris planned, didn’t bother investigating what they were up to.
To my surprise they were featured as a sneak peak on Design Sponge today. Needless to say this is a NEW place since we’ve been. They weren’t exactly “consultants for restaurants and food retail companies” back then but they were warm and sweet and had a great playlist on all night and a very friendly pup. It makes me so happy to see them succeed. Definitely, definitely try and go if you can while you are there. Our dinner was one of the highlights of our trip.
This morning I learned you should not plug your $200 hair iron in while you are still half asleep. Fried. My hair will look scary all week. It’ll have to do!
This afternoon I learned they don’t have american sized 3 hole punch paper here and that I should have shipped 2 cases. Oops. The PA is manually punching ream after ream of A4. It’ll have to do :\
This evening I learned not to stay out an extra hour after working a 15hr day. Tired. Only getting 4 hrs sleep tonight. It’ll have to do?
