Day 9--Theft & Destruction

Day 9—Sunday, June 20
Montreal, Que
0 mi

Woke this am early and let the cats in and out and then read for awhile while Suz and Luke slept. I’m reading the Outside Boy by Jeanine Cummins and loving it.

When Suz got up, we had a bite of breakfast and then donned our cycling clothes. We planned on Luke’s driving us to the Route Verte (Green Route) and cycling for several hours before running Luke, who relies on public transportation, to Ikea and several outlying stores in the afternoon. 

However, when we got down to the street and the car, we found the front driver’s window broken into small glittering pieces which littered the street and front seat . . . and the GPS gone. There is something conspiring to keep us off our bikes!

We trooped back upstairs and looked up an auto glass place. They could fix the window if they could have the car between 1 and 5. So. . . we changed out of our cycling clothes, worked on getting all the glass and the remaining things out of the car, and then drove to IKEA where Luke bought a shelf unit and we enjoyed strolling through. I bought a few small things for Christmas stockings.

Then we went to Buy Rite and bought a new TomTom GPS. After this we went to a few outside equipment stores looking (still unsuccessfully) for long underwear for Suz. When we got back to the apartment, we unloaded our stuff and then Suz and Luke drove the car to the Auto Glass place which required a long walk to the Metro or home; thus, I did not go but worked on this journal. Surprisingly, the place paid for a taxi to bring Suz and Luke back to the apartment. 

Suz and Luke ate lunch—I’d already eaten—and then we all played with our computers and photos for a bit until mother and son returned to the Auto Glass place to pick up their car at about 3 pm.

For dinner this evening we three went to the Bombay Mahal and had delicious Indian food. 

We treated Luke—the bill came only to $50, including the tip. When we returned to the apartment, we caught up the journal, transferred money, and printed directions to Button Bay State Park and to Burlington, Vermont, from Montreal.