Post date: Jan 23, 2014 3:22:55 AM
Today saw us all going to different things!
The Thompson's catch the metro train system, all underground, so warmer, to visit the Olympic Tower only to find it is closed for renovations, we got all the way inside before we found this our, no signage anywhere to tell us, so we visited the old Velodrome which was built for the Montreal Olympics, which is now the Biodome, which houses a variety of Eco systems, we saw a vast range of animals which had the kids entertained!
We traveled back to the city and had lunch were the girls returned to the apartment for a restful afternoon, of laundry and swimming (Adele singing her heart out as the acoustics were good, and unfortunately we were the only ones in there!)
The Woods' spent the morning at the walking the streets of Old Montreal and visiting Museum for the History of Montreal. This was an interesting surprise find as we had originally headed to Old Montreal for a different reason, but found that location closed (a little disappointing actually and a bit of a regular thing we have found that some of the places just close for long periods during winter as there is a lack of tourists at this time).
The Museum was a good find with a variety of topics on display. There was a level for the history of Montreal, which had school groups going through and this gave us a bit of extra experience as they had staff doing role play for the school kids. They were dressed in period costume and were running around with bayonets and knives and telling the kids how dangerous it was to live in the 1700s. A little extra bonus.
The second floor had an exhibit to the life of criminals and police in the Montreal area. A little Montreal Underbelly if you would like. Quite interesting and a little educational for Laura! Skipped a few exhibits here as we felt she did not need to know some of the details discussed in them. The third floor had a nature exhibit from the North side of Mount Royal (the mountain overlooking Montreal). A lot of information re the local fauna and flora and some of the farming history of the area. Nice to learn a bit about the area as currently it appears the only thing they could possibly farm is SNOW and ICE!
Col & Blayne joined up with the Woods for the afternoon at the Science Museum. They all (big and little kids) had a fun afternoon with the experiments and activity centres, which included a sound proof room with drums, Blayne enjoyed this!