Montreal Adventure

One would think I would have learned after the first pre-kid trip, that Montreal in January is really stinking cold.  Yet, today I found myself traveling with three other families two hours north to Montreal for Dim Sum, the Underground City and IKEA.  Yes our final destination was IKEA. 

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To start the trip off, we set a Dim Sum place in China Town as out meeting location.  The food was great and the kids had their own table (we did have to occasionally confiscate the chopsticks).  Not only this, we realized the one of the families has been there many more times then the rest of us, when they walked in and received hugs from the wait staff.  This worked to our advantage later, when we realized that there were items that were not floating around on the carts, that you could order, such as duck...... it was wonderful.  With our bellies full, we set out for the Underground City.

Once we realized that life was a lot more fun above ground than under, we decided to brave the 3 degree temperatures and emerge from the underground city.  The kids soon found this really cool musical art sculpture in front of one of the art museums.  The kids spent several minutes running back and forth through the structure while the parents contemplated running over to the Starbucks across the road for a nice warm drink. 

Once all the kids were thoroughly frozen and stuffed with pastries from a bakery we stopped at to warm up on our way back through China Town, we headed to IKEA.  The kids had a great time in the play area, the dads had a great time drinking coffee on the benches outside the play area and the mo's went shopping.  Have to admit, this was by far the best stop of the day and rounded off our trip to Montreal.