Briefly in Montreal...

Last weekend, after the TWIST  Fiber Festival, Terry and I decided to head to Montreal for a day - instead of driving straight back home.

The festival was in a town about halfway between Ottawa and Montreal.

In Montreal, there was lots of construction on downtown city streets, so our traffic app suggested we exit the highway in the neighborhood close to where Terry's Grandmother Hutchins once lived, rather than  exit downtown...

It's always nostalgic for Terry and me to visit Montreal - the city where we both lived for a number of years before meeting and getting married there.

A year after getting married, we moved to Ontario for Terry to pursue post-grad studies - and never returned to live.

But we love the city and have such good memories of our years there...

St. Catherine Street, from Peel Street east a few blocks, the road was totally torn up as they replaced major sewer pipes. (Not the best time to visit!) Even walking on the sidewalk was a challenge.

But I guess road and infastructure repairs have to be done sometime!

Things were somewhat better in our old neighborhood, around Atwater Street.

The former Children's Hospital has been torn down and condos are going to be built instead.

Terry wandered over to check it out...

Then we headed over to the old  hockey forum...

It's always nice to be back!

Even if the skyline has changed since we lived there... and is constantly changing...

It still feels like home!

(In fact, the building with the brown door and window trim is where we used to live!)