One of my friend from university, who was also my roommate for one year, had a beautiful little girl while we were away traveling the world. We spent the afternoon with mom and baby, and were lucky enough to see her turn over onto herself for the first time ever. Maeve is 3 months old.
It was time for us to leave Montreal. We had made sure during our time in town to eat our fill of poutine, bagels, maple syrup and everything else tasty. We had said goodbye to my mom last night, as to be able to sleep in this morning. It was sad to say goodbye, but I took comfort in the fact that we had at least managed to spend quite a few days together.
Later in the day we packed our bags and set out for the final train ride of our trip. I’ve ridden the train between Montreal and Toronto so many times – even twice in one day once – but I still love it. Watching the scenery go by brought back a lot of good memories.
My friend from university (and ex roommate) Christine picked us up at the train station, and we headed back to her place. She had been kind enough to offer that we’d stay with her, even though she had just moved back to Toronto a week or so before. And to top things off, she even had dinner waiting for us when we arrived, hot on the oven.
Bellow are pictures from dinner the following night, when we went out for sushi.
The last time we were in Montreal (back in September 2010) Travis and I ate Au Pied de Cochon the day before boarding our flight to Japan. It was our last meal before starting off on our world-wide adventure, and what a meal it was!
Since being back in Canada for the end of our trip, Travis has really been focusing on “closing the loop”. With this in mind, he wanted to eat at Au Pied de Cochon again, and as it turns out we managed to get a reservation for our last night in Montreal. We ate well and revisited many of our favourite dishes – we had a fantastic (early) evening and left full and satisfied.
Not too long ago I did a little update about my haircut, and said that I couldn’t wait to get it cut again. Well, today, I did!
My hair had been growing back in a sort of “staircase” style, with three different lengths oddly framing my face and I wanted to achieve two things with a new haircut: 1) avoid looking as though I was trying to grow a mullet and 2) make it look as though I actually had chosen (and wanted) my haircut. With this in mind, I went to my favourite hair salon in Montreal and chopped off some hair.
Here is the before, and how I’ve been wearing my hair most days to minimize the “staircase” look:
And here is the (silly) after photos:
I really like the new haircut: it feels great and looks great. I finally have stylish hair again! I am very excited 
After quite some time of the phones trying to find an affordable mover to transport our boxes across country, we have finally found a “decent” option. It’s incredible how expensive it is to move only 14 boxes – shocking really! We will have to wait some time for the truck to fill with other shipments and for the truck to get to us, but that’s alright. At this point, we are quite used to living with having very few possessions around!
