Wednesday July 30, 2008

We got up and going pretty good this morning heading for Canada. We made it through customs although we are always nervous answering questions…”where are you coming from?” “St. Petersburg, Florida” “You drove all the way from Florida today?” “Well, no, we are staying at…what is the name of that state park?” You get the gist…we are naturally nervous, especially Greg and they even asked who was sitting by him. I swear I didn’t think he was going to remember my name! We stopped at the visitor’s center and got great information on where to park and go in the old section. We parked and got on our bikes and took off. Montreal is very bike friendly. There are bike paths everywhere and we used them. We rode around the town and then finally found a “free” place to lock our bikes…most places were like parking meters and we had no Canadian coins. We ate at a little outdoor café and had pizza. It was a caper, artichoke, ham, olive pizza but each ingredient had its own section of the pizza…interesting. We ended up splitting up each piece…it was great. We also had a beer and for some reason (could have been the long day yesterday) it wiped us out! We went to the huge park that runs down the waterfront on the St. Lawrence River, got out our crazy creek chairs to “read” and promptly fell asleep! Two vagrant naps in one month…I don’t know what is next. We needed to move so we followed the bike trail for a good ways (saw people going through the locks on their boats) then loaded up and headed home. On the way home we decided to go to the movies (we had seen them from the interstate on our way in last night) so we got to the Plattsburgh Mall, ate at the Flaming Wok and watched the Dark Knight. After so much nature and city stuff it was great to do something mindless. We got back to our site after 10, so we still don’t know much about it.