Let's go to Canadia, eh?
So we may or may not have spontaneously decided to go to Canada just for the sake of going to a new country and using my new passport. We're probably living as close to Canada as we ever will be, so we figured, what the heck? So we went to Montreal. 
Even though we knew that they speak French in Montreal, we didn't really realize how French it would be. I don't know any French, and even though Adam took a couple classes in high school, he can only remember a couple phrases. But we thought, hey, it's Canada, they'll all speak English right? Well, we thought wrong. Even the border guy barely spoke English, and we couldn't understand half of what he said. The next morning our hotel's breakfast was in their restaurant, and our waitress didn't really speak English either, so that was pretty interesting. Plus it wasn't quite as easy to navigate as we'd thought. We're so used to using Adam's phone for internet everywhere we go, but guess what? No service in Canada. Oops. Guess that's what we get for being spontaneous!
We still got to see some pretty cool stuff though. We went to the Notre Dame Basilica, which was gorgeous. It was so big and ornate, and a lot cooler than the little English churches we've gone into in Boston.
Another thing that's really cool about Montreal is they have this underground city. You go down into the subway system, and there's a ton of interconnected shopping malls and food courts that are all down there. And the cool part is that each section is designed by a different person, so they were all decorated differently, and a lot of them had chandeliers and things. It was really interesting.
Another thing about their subway system, other than obviously being a little cleaner and nicer than some others, is that the trains run on rubber wheels, not metal tracks. 
We went to Chinatown, and it really was like stepping into another country. It's shaped in a square, and each side of it has a little entrance gate. Once you walk in, everything is in Chinese. Some stores had signs in French too, but those didn't do us much good either lol. It's not really a cool place to go shopping or anything like that though, unless you're looking for weird Chinese food. It's really just where all the Chinese people live. But it was definitely very ethnically different and fun to walk through.
We saw this sign on our way out. I'm pretty sure that sign says Ray Lamontagne...ok ok it says Rue de la Montagne, but close enough right? I mean Adam loves the guy enough that I can play along.
Yay for visiting new countries! It was only a short visit this time, but next time we go to a new one, I think we'll be a little more prepared :)
Even though we knew that they speak French in Montreal, we didn't really realize how French it would be. I don't know any French, and even though Adam took a couple classes in high school, he can only remember a couple phrases. But we thought, hey, it's Canada, they'll all speak English right? Well, we thought wrong. Even the border guy barely spoke English, and we couldn't understand half of what he said. The next morning our hotel's breakfast was in their restaurant, and our waitress didn't really speak English either, so that was pretty interesting. Plus it wasn't quite as easy to navigate as we'd thought. We're so used to using Adam's phone for internet everywhere we go, but guess what? No service in Canada. Oops. Guess that's what we get for being spontaneous!
We still got to see some pretty cool stuff though. We went to the Notre Dame Basilica, which was gorgeous. It was so big and ornate, and a lot cooler than the little English churches we've gone into in Boston.
Another thing that's really cool about Montreal is they have this underground city. You go down into the subway system, and there's a ton of interconnected shopping malls and food courts that are all down there. And the cool part is that each section is designed by a different person, so they were all decorated differently, and a lot of them had chandeliers and things. It was really interesting.
Another thing about their subway system, other than obviously being a little cleaner and nicer than some others, is that the trains run on rubber wheels, not metal tracks. 
We went to Chinatown, and it really was like stepping into another country. It's shaped in a square, and each side of it has a little entrance gate. Once you walk in, everything is in Chinese. Some stores had signs in French too, but those didn't do us much good either lol. It's not really a cool place to go shopping or anything like that though, unless you're looking for weird Chinese food. It's really just where all the Chinese people live. But it was definitely very ethnically different and fun to walk through.
We saw this sign on our way out. I'm pretty sure that sign says Ray Lamontagne...ok ok it says Rue de la Montagne, but close enough right? I mean Adam loves the guy enough that I can play along.
Yay for visiting new countries! It was only a short visit this time, but next time we go to a new one, I think we'll be a little more prepared :)
Sounds like an adventure!
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