Day 8--Dinner at Diane's

Day 8—Saturday, June 19,
Montreal, QUE,
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Woke up when we woke up and then walked to breakfast at a popular little French restaurant around the corner from Luke’s apartment. I had two eggs over etc. with large delicious thin crepe.

After breakfast, Suz and Luke went to the Botanical Gardens. I stayed in the apartment and worked on my journal. My spine/tailbone is still extremely sore whenever I must walk, stand, or climb stairs; just plain sore when I sit. Mother/son needed some time together without me.

The two got back to the apartment, and after about an hour or so we dressed and drove over to Diane’s house, about half an hour from Luke’s in another part of the city. On the way we passed the church towers below and we also drove across the Jacques-Cartier Bridge and saw two enormous ferris wheels in La Ronde Theme park on an island below the bridge.

At the Buchanan’s, we sat in the back yard and enjoyed an edamame appetizer and then a cold green bean-mushroom salad, dirty rice, and wonderful mustard salmon for dinner with white wine. After dinner Diane served a tiramisu that she had made because the night before, at the concert, Luke had primed us to say that the food at his place was good but that we missed desserts, such as tiramisu. Voila! It worked. Diane made a delicious tiramisu.

Me, Diane's mother Marie Yvanne, Luke, and Diane after dinner in the backyard

When the mosquitoes started biting, we moved inside, took pix, and talked for a bit, and then left for home about 10 pm.

Marie Yvanne, Luke, Diane pulling a zany face, and Suz

We crossed the St Lawrence over another bridge but could see a fireworks display over the river by the Jacques-Cartier.

Fireworks and ferris wheel near the Jacques-Cartier