RuthlessBurgher
07-15-2009, 11:16 PM
I mentioned the Anniversary trip that my wife and I took in the middle of a random hockey thread, but since so few of you actually visit there, I thought I would start its own post here (especially now that I have pictures to show off).
We took a bus trip to Montreal last weekend to celebrate (even though the actual anniversary date was in late June). It was a pretty cool city (I've been to Niagara Falls, Toronto, Ottawa, Halifax, and Saint John before, but this was my first time in a French-speaking city). The 30th annual Jazz Festival was there (largest in the world), and we got great seats to see the Brian Setzer Orchestra at Salle Wilfred Pelletier on Friday night. Even though it poured like crazy on Saturday, we were able to duck into a few shops in Old Montreal between downpours, had some poutine in one of the underground malls, and had a great fondue dinner that night. We even stopped in Lake George, NY on the way home, and it was a cool town as well with some specialty shops (had some good pizza and gelato there as well).
Anyway, without further adieu (as the Quebecois would say), here are a few of the pics. These were taken by a professional photographer in our area (she has done some amazing shots of the kids over the years, and she was also the photographer at my sister's wedding, but this was the first photo shoot in which it was just the two of us). I still have yet to download any of the pictures that I took in Montreal with my own camera, but that is pretty much just your run-of-the-mill touristy stuff anyway.
I apologize in advance for the large picture size.
Some are in sepia:
http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u62/niqueoh/10thAnniversary017.jpg
http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u62/niqueoh/10thAnniversary023.jpg
Others are in black and white:
http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u62/niqueoh/10thAnniversary040.jpg
http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u62/niqueoh/10thAnniversary021.jpg
And even a few in good old color:
http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u62/niqueoh/10thAnniversary001.jpg
http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u62/niqueoh/10thAnniversary034.jpg
Thanks for humoring me (my wife posted the pictures on her Facebook page, so I decided I would post some here too. So there. :P )
We took a bus trip to Montreal last weekend to celebrate (even though the actual anniversary date was in late June). It was a pretty cool city (I've been to Niagara Falls, Toronto, Ottawa, Halifax, and Saint John before, but this was my first time in a French-speaking city). The 30th annual Jazz Festival was there (largest in the world), and we got great seats to see the Brian Setzer Orchestra at Salle Wilfred Pelletier on Friday night. Even though it poured like crazy on Saturday, we were able to duck into a few shops in Old Montreal between downpours, had some poutine in one of the underground malls, and had a great fondue dinner that night. We even stopped in Lake George, NY on the way home, and it was a cool town as well with some specialty shops (had some good pizza and gelato there as well).
Anyway, without further adieu (as the Quebecois would say), here are a few of the pics. These were taken by a professional photographer in our area (she has done some amazing shots of the kids over the years, and she was also the photographer at my sister's wedding, but this was the first photo shoot in which it was just the two of us). I still have yet to download any of the pictures that I took in Montreal with my own camera, but that is pretty much just your run-of-the-mill touristy stuff anyway.
I apologize in advance for the large picture size.
Some are in sepia:
http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u62/niqueoh/10thAnniversary017.jpg
http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u62/niqueoh/10thAnniversary023.jpg
Others are in black and white:
http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u62/niqueoh/10thAnniversary040.jpg
http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u62/niqueoh/10thAnniversary021.jpg
And even a few in good old color:
http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u62/niqueoh/10thAnniversary001.jpg
http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u62/niqueoh/10thAnniversary034.jpg
Thanks for humoring me (my wife posted the pictures on her Facebook page, so I decided I would post some here too. So there. :P )