Montreal Trip: Day 3

For Day 3 of our trip, we took a 20 minute Metro ride to have brunch at St-Viateur Bagel.  It's supposed to be one of the best bagel places in Montreal.  There's typically a 30 minute wait and that's about how long we waited outside the restaurant.  Luckily it was not a cold day.

M1 had a bacon bagel, M2 had a BLT bagel, M3 had a ham and cheese bagel, and I had a smoked meat bagel.  I guess it was worth the wait because we all thought the bagels tasted very good.  In fact, M2 said she is not going to have a bagel at Tim Horton's ever again.

Afterwards, we hopped on the Metro again to visit the Jean Talon market.  It's like the St. Lawrence Market in Toronto, but smaller.  There were lots of fresh fruits and vegetables and meats.  We snacked on some macaroons and they were very good.

Then it was back on the Metro again to go back to the mall we went to yesterday.  I wanted to pick up a 3D puzzle of the Batmobile and a 1500 piece Star Wars jigsaw puzzle.  Strangely, I was the only one to buy souvenirs on this trip.  Then we took the Metro back to the hotel to rest a bit before our next event that M1 booked.

The next event was a 30 minute Metro ride to the Planetarium where we watched 2 half-hour shows - one about stars and constellations and another about planets in our solar system and beyond.  I was always interested in astronomy so M1 booked this for me.

I mentioned in the Day 2 blog that the roads were slushy.  Well, the sidewalks were not much better.  They weren't shoveled and were often very icy.  I forgot to mention that M2 slipped on the ice and fell yesterday.  During the walk from the Metro station to the Planetarium, I slipped on an icy patch and fell.  They definitely don't plow and salt in Montreal as often as they do in Markham!

For dinner, we took the Metro back downtown and ate near our hotel.  After days of smoked meat, I decided to have a Cobb salad.  M1 had pasta with smoked meat, M2 had a smoked meat platter (we shared so I still had meat), and M3 had a Chicken Caesar wrap.  Again the food tasted really good.

I made it a point to mention all our trips on the Metro for this day because M2 came to the realization that she really likes riding the Metro.  She says it's fun and relaxing at the same time.  (She's never ridden the Toronto subway during rush hour, pre-COVID.)  One time the doors were about to close and we had to run to make it.  She thought that was particularly fun.

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