Montreal - Part 1

Wonderful but altogether to short a visit with my beautiful offspring. A direct afternoon flight from Cartegena to Montreal. I arrived around 10pm to the Plateau and dug into some of the thoughtful gluten free snacks waiting for me, while catching up with Ashlynn and Hugo.
On Saturday Ashlynn had a full day planned! We went wedding dress shopping, then did a somatic art and movement class with Erica. Which was so much fun. It made me want to reconnect with scribbling and abstract drawing. Then to the bookstore in Saint Henri to pick up the latest Emily Austin book and have a Taco meal at Freda’s with Erica and Des.
Sunday is apparently Bridge, so Hugo, Ashlynn and I played… she won. We headed to Mile End to visit a GF bakery with a few stops along the way, and after at consignment stores, shoe stores and COTN. Hugo was making Lamb and Risotto so I picked up a bottle of Amarone for the meal.
On Monday I had said I would caulk the bathroom since Ashlynn had just painted it (the color of our wall in the den/ burgundy). We went to the Hardware store and Tapi Go for some Cassava Chesse balls. I worked on clean the bathroom which took longer then extracted, so promised to do it upon my return in a few weeks. Off to the airport, with a layover in Toronto. Sadly my flight was delayed for 2 hours (which meant there was a point where my close friend Kim, from Barbados, and I were only 4 gates apart and didn’t realize it till we were on our planes 🙁). It also meant arriving after midnight in Calgary, where Andrew picked me up. While I was flying… Brian and Bernie were sailing from Colombia to Panama — San Blas Islands (Guna Yala).Read more