The Travel Blog Begins...
We arrived in Washington DC yesterday afternoon. Their metro system has possibly the most complicated ticket purchasing system ever! You buy different tickets for what time of day, how many days, how many times per day. You pay more at rush hour and if your ticket didn’t cover the times that you got on you have to pay an "exit fee". It nearly did me in when we had to take the train and bus for an hour and a half to get to our hotel in Rockville. Plus we didn't realize until the end of our stay that there are different tickets for us and metro. The bus drivers were al just getting annoyed at us, but no one explained why.
When we got to the hotel, our room had two double beds instead of the King we had booked. So we will spend the remainder of our honeymoon in separate beds. Very romantic!
But we had dinner at a lovely little place ‘Primo Italiano’ that had fantastic pizza, and there was live music in the square so then it all felt better, after that.
Today we went to Smithsonian. Everything is free which is one of the things that drew us to taking the rest of our layover in DC. We spent almost the entire day at the Natural History Museum. It was pretty cool to see many of the animals that we will see in Africa in a few weeks; even if they are stuffed.
The hope diamond is there as well, and it’s huge! I hadn’t realized it was blue until we saw it today. We watched a 3D IMAX movie on Dinosaurs…so, yea; we like totally learned tons about super nerdy things today. It was totally Paleozoic!
N and I are really enjoying amusing ourselves with the excessive American patriotism. We saw a woman today just wearing a t-shirt of their whole flag. Many of the school children have shirts that say I <3 DC. They are poser NY shirts, which is pretty funny. Everywhere we go it’s packed with people who seem to be making a kind of pilgrimage. Interesting place to be that’s for sure.
We found butter chick out of a roadside kiosk…does it get any more awesome!
We began our honeymoon in Montreal, it was exactly what we had hoped to find. We got in lots of relaxing with just enough to keep us entertained.
We found a little middle-eastern corner store with the most fantastic pita and hummus the two of us had ever tasted. And mountains of fresh fruit for dirt-cheap. We stopped there for snacks before heading out each day.
Starbucks dans Montreal! In honour of my beloved little sister, we hit up the Starbucks several mornings for le café. And of course got the traditional traveling Starbucks picture there.
We checked out Mount Royal, which overlooks the whole city and is quite beautiful. Visited Atwater Market and wandered around by the St. Lawrence. Our last night after dinner we went to one of Montréal’s many little café/bar/bistro’s Theatre Bar, which was so cool inside. It was artsy and random with excellent lattes and dessert.
Everyone in Montreal rides bikes. You see them all over the streets and chained up to every available pole. The bikes make the city feel alive. They have these great little rental bikes that you can rent and then bike to another little rental stop. We kept planning to take them but never knew where we were going well enough to take them. We found rental bikes in Washington too now although they may get overruled in favour of Segways!
We wandered through Old Montreal. It’s very old world looking, quite a European feel. And there we happened upon Notre Dame Cathedral, it was breathtakingly beautiful. It made me think of the real Notre Dame, and I thought Dad would have loved it.
We also checked out the underground city which seemed over rated to us both, but it is all these walking tunnels underground that have some shopping in them. Eaton centre, which the tunnels eventually lead us to, is far more impressive. It’s like five floors, similar to West Edmonton Mall only way better laid out and consistently better shops. There were also great strip malls down the streets by our hotel (Hotel Nouvelle - right down town).
Newly weds, 4 countries, 2 months — Here we go!
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| Happily Honeymooning! At the Edmonton Airport May 8 2011 heading to Montreal. |
N and I are having a great time traveling together! We like to travel much the same way. Lots of walking and food check out some sights and just take it easy. It is working out well.
We arrived in Washington DC yesterday afternoon. Their metro system has possibly the most complicated ticket purchasing system ever! You buy different tickets for what time of day, how many days, how many times per day. You pay more at rush hour and if your ticket didn’t cover the times that you got on you have to pay an "exit fee". It nearly did me in when we had to take the train and bus for an hour and a half to get to our hotel in Rockville. Plus we didn't realize until the end of our stay that there are different tickets for us and metro. The bus drivers were al just getting annoyed at us, but no one explained why.
When we got to the hotel, our room had two double beds instead of the King we had booked. So we will spend the remainder of our honeymoon in separate beds. Very romantic!
But we had dinner at a lovely little place ‘Primo Italiano’ that had fantastic pizza, and there was live music in the square so then it all felt better, after that.
Today we went to Smithsonian. Everything is free which is one of the things that drew us to taking the rest of our layover in DC. We spent almost the entire day at the Natural History Museum. It was pretty cool to see many of the animals that we will see in Africa in a few weeks; even if they are stuffed. The hope diamond is there as well, and it’s huge! I hadn’t realized it was blue until we saw it today. We watched a 3D IMAX movie on Dinosaurs…so, yea; we like totally learned tons about super nerdy things today. It was totally Paleozoic!
N and I are really enjoying amusing ourselves with the excessive American patriotism. We saw a woman today just wearing a t-shirt of their whole flag. Many of the school children have shirts that say I <3 DC. They are poser NY shirts, which is pretty funny. Everywhere we go it’s packed with people who seem to be making a kind of pilgrimage. Interesting place to be that’s for sure.
We found butter chick out of a roadside kiosk…does it get any more awesome!
We began our honeymoon in Montreal, it was exactly what we had hoped to find. We got in lots of relaxing with just enough to keep us entertained.
We found a little middle-eastern corner store with the most fantastic pita and hummus the two of us had ever tasted. And mountains of fresh fruit for dirt-cheap. We stopped there for snacks before heading out each day.
Starbucks dans Montreal! In honour of my beloved little sister, we hit up the Starbucks several mornings for le café. And of course got the traditional traveling Starbucks picture there.
We checked out Mount Royal, which overlooks the whole city and is quite beautiful. Visited Atwater Market and wandered around by the St. Lawrence. Our last night after dinner we went to one of Montréal’s many little café/bar/bistro’s Theatre Bar, which was so cool inside. It was artsy and random with excellent lattes and dessert.
Everyone in Montreal rides bikes. You see them all over the streets and chained up to every available pole. The bikes make the city feel alive. They have these great little rental bikes that you can rent and then bike to another little rental stop. We kept planning to take them but never knew where we were going well enough to take them. We found rental bikes in Washington too now although they may get overruled in favour of Segways!
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| Notre Dame Cathedral |
We also checked out the underground city which seemed over rated to us both, but it is all these walking tunnels underground that have some shopping in them. Eaton centre, which the tunnels eventually lead us to, is far more impressive. It’s like five floors, similar to West Edmonton Mall only way better laid out and consistently better shops. There were also great strip malls down the streets by our hotel (Hotel Nouvelle - right down town).
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