Montreal

Note: belated because Amy wrote it and asked me to look over it. I forgot. Here'tis. Now you can all quit your wingin'.


We are back in Hobart now and I know no-one will read this any more, but we have to finish it properly.


After Boston we went back to New York for one night. Luckily the Broadway strikes had finished, and we got to see The Lion King - yay! Even if it did use up most of the money we had left!


The next morning we got up early to catch a train to Montreal. As we headed north more and more snow appeared, until eventually all the lakes were frozen and no grass was in sight.

We stayed with Jason's second cousin, Angela, and her two lovely children - Felixe and Maxim. It was great to catch up with them all, and the kids certainly kept us busy!


We went to an awesome bakery for some yummy French pastries...



We went for a walk in the snow-c0vered park with Felixe and Maxim. There is a hill there that all the kids have fun playing on. They get all sorts of sleds and mats and snow boards and fly down the hill. It looked like so much fun, although Jason said it is a little rough on the knees!





On our last night in Montreal we stayed at a really nice hotel and had the nicest food ever. The meat was sooo tender. And my chocolate pudding was perfect, with yummy chocolate sauce oozing out off a small chocolate cake, served with rich vanilla ice cream. Mmmmmmmm.

The next day we sadly made our way to the airport to begin our long journey home.

After 30 hours of either being on a plane or in an airpot, we finally arrived in Sydney. We got through customs surprisingly quickly - it's so much faster when you don't have to do fingerprinting and photos like in America! Then we headed over to the baggage collection place. We waited and waited. The same bags were going round and round. Finally we realised that our bags weren't going to come out. Then some airport staff informed us that our bags were still in LA. So all we had was our carry-on luggage for our stay in Sydney, which consisted of random toiletries and a few items of clothing none of which were suitable to wear in sunny Sydney. So we had to buy everything - hopefully our travel insurance will cover that. Our luggage should be arriving in Hobart either today or tomorrow - fingers crossed!

We had a really good time in Sydney. We stayed at our friend's place, and she kindly drove us around places and made us scrambled eggs for breakfast. We went to Campos and had some good coffee and yummy pastries, wandered around Newtown, then took the ferry back to Manly.


Thanks to everyone who kept in touch with us while we were away and commented on our blog - it helped us to not be so homesick. We're really happy to be back and can't wait to see everyone.