10/14–Thanksgiving day in Montreal

It’s an awful day! Dreary, rainy, misty. We decide to explore the underground (which Turgay has told us is “just shops” ) so we can at least get some walking in this morning without drowning.  The underground is, well, just shops!  It’s a series of underground malls really.  But we don’t care, because we just want to walk and stay dry. We manage to get all the way around to the train station, then turn back.

Back in the room, we have a late breakfast/lunch, then decide to brave the weather and head to the old port area.  Nothing much going on down there except tourism! But we happen to luck into a celebration though – Canada has declared 2013 to be the year of Korea (and Korea has done the same for Canada) to commemorate the partnership during the Korean war.  There are 2 Korean ships in port and their military band, dancers, color guard and Asian fighting teams are here.  In addition, Canadian war veterans are also in attendance to receive medals (one of whom didn’t RSVP but showed up anyway and causes quite the agitation with one of the organizers – we of course feel his pain!).

It’s a very interesting presentation, and the traditional dancing is great.  After standing there for the better part of an hour though, we’re ready to celebrate ourselves with a beverage, so we duck into this great brew pub – Les 3 Brasseurs – or the 3 brewers.  It’s a great place, and a shame we’ve already had lunch because the food looks good too.  Instead we warm up with beer and wine, then head back out and walk back to the hotel.

We also decide to cook in this evening as well since it’s icky weather and we don’t want to walk all the way down to the restaurant we had found.  More sausages from the grocery store (these things are GREAT) and we are set.  Frittata with broccoli and cauliflower, sausages (leftovers for lunch tomorrow) and all our stockpiled desserts!  Then MNF.  All is well in Montreal!