Poutine to Go

We always seem to ring in the new year or use our winter break to go someplace more, um, winter-like than Southern California. We kinda went to the extreme this time around and headed to the great white north for some French Canadian goodness in Montreal. The Quebecois were friendly, robust, and also quite... French! Luckily, there wasn't much of a language barrier, but I did manage a "bonjour" here and there.

Most notable: the food. I don't think I've ever consumed so much gravy in my life. Unbelievable, actually, but awesome. Also, the public transportation was great, the weather wasn't as terrible as advertised (save for the unusually icy steets), and the sights were incredible. We would go back, but there are way too many places in this world we haven't quite been to yet.

Until then, all we have are the pictures and the memories. Here's to 2009!