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Rained through the night but the skies cleared for our 9 am ride into Montreal.

We walked St. Cathrines Street and Marg found a store that sold scrap booking materials and walked out at under $100—must not have been a very good store.

We had lunch with the beavers. The Queen Eliz. Hotel has a dining area that is called the Beaver Club and Marg and I ate their with a long-time friend of my Mum. Auntie Jean (not really my aunt) used to take pictures of Brian and I and our family when we lived in Montreal many moons ago. I decided that I would have dinner since the menu offered dinner entres for lunch. We shared a floating island soft meringue with pistachio cream for dessert then gobbled the iced grapes and sweets that were given complimentary at the end of the meal.

We looked at few stores after lunch but the time was closing in our bus rendezvous (practicing my francais—sorry, no cedilla) time. Don’t tell anybody but we snuck into Winners and Marg came out with two cashmere sweaters.

Tomorrow we leave greater Montreal and head for Quebec City.

Cheers

oops, September 5--starting reruns already