Screeching Good Times

We had a wonderful family day. Yes, we "cheated" and went out for lunch... but in all fairness we had lunch REALLY late and we were all very hungry! The words of a fast food addict. The highlight of my day was a trip to the splash pad in NDG. I could have watched Bulldozer play for hours in the water, he was just so cute! At the end Hubby kept asking him if we wanted to get out of the water because his lips were dark blue but he insisted he wasn't cold! Finally we had to leave to make it back in time to cook supper. It was a gorgeous day.

A close second to the ultimate highlight of my day was seeing "Uncle Stew" work at the restaurant making bagels. Bulldozer loves "Too" (as he calls him!) and was overjoyed to watch him work at the ovens. When we left the restaurant he kept repeating, "Bye Too ... bye Too!"

I walked for three hours today. Ha, take that nutritionist! Sorry still some residual angry feelings about having to cut down on the amount that I eat! I'll thank her when I've gotten down to my target weight of 130 pounds but in the meantime I remain bitter. Anyway back to my walking... so I walked for three hours like I said to do some more apartment hunting in NDG. Not too much luck. An icky real estate agent told me that I was wasting my time trying to find an apartment in our price range in NDG, realistic or not that wasn't very nice! Besides we have found some in our price range, the problem is that they are all for the month of July and we need an apartment for August the first. Tonight I'm going to see an upper duplex in the Montreal West area because I think it would be smart to expand our search so if we can't find an apartment in NDG than we are not left homeless! (Although once upon a time I had a dream that I lived in a box...) First I'll see the home although I think that being one bus ride away from the orange line on the metro is a very good thing. Grandparents can thank me later... :)

A Walk On The Wild Side

Sometimes in comparison NDG does seems "wild" compared to Lasalle! Perhaps wild isn't the appropriate word to use, NDG just has character, unlike Lasalle with it's sameness and total lack of anything pretty. Sure the duplexes look clean and kept up from the outside but they are all the SAME! Row after row after row of white bricked (a few brown ones thrown in for good measure) duplexes, the only change are some balconies/windows/doors are different! Some yards look nicer than others. There are no old dwellings, I swear this whole city went up in the 1970's by one contractor who's vision was to see how many duplexes he could make that looked exactly the same. A wonderland of predictability. I miss the old trees, the beautiful parks, the gargoyles, the high ceilings and the buildings from the early 1900's. Far from a good reason to uproot an entire family, this is obviously not the reason why we are moving but I definitely look forward to a place with a little more character.