Epic East Coast - Day 50

We travelled to Montreal today with some very tired children.  We had to get up early to get to the train station on time, which luckily was all downhill walking.  We cut the timing a little close, as they started boarding the train right as we walked into the waiting area.

The trip to Montreal was fairly uneventful, as it was a short trip, and we arrived just before lunch.  This meant that we were very early for our hotel room, but they let us check in early so that we could dump all of our luggage in the room and head out for lunch, which was just a nearby food court, in order to keep things simple.

It was then time to spend the afternoon exploring Montreal.  We started outside the shopping plaza, where a group of people were playing chess on giant chessboards.  After one game was over, we went on a short walking tour of Old Montreal.  We walked past the cathedral, which is massive, and a lot of very nice looking old buildings.  However, most of the sidewalks were too narrow and too busy to easily walk through.

Down by the river there is a park and walking path that we walked along for awhile and at the end of that is the Old Port, which is now a big shopping and tourist area.  We let the kids go on a little train ride and then headed back to the hotel.

Supper was a bit of a disaster, as the younger kids have reached a point where they will only eat chicken nuggets and we decided to go to a Tim Horton's, where they managed to get my order wrong.  I didn't eat, as once we returned to the hotel, Alex and I walked a long way to Schwartz's Deli so that I could have a smoked meat sandwich.  The restaurant was very busy and was cash only (which I only found out about when I went to pay), but the sandwich was extremely good.

When we got back to the hotel, it was almost bed time, but the older two kids wanted to go swimming, so I took them to the pool while Sandra put the extremely tired younger two to bed.  That's pretty much it for our trip - tomorrow is a travel day to Toronto and Sunday is our flights home.  At this point I'm calling the trip "fun-strating".  We'll see how I feel after a few months have passed.