On Sunday morning, after our arrival home at 1:30am after the wedding, Logan thought it was a nice morning to get up before 6am. 4 hours of sleep for me is totally adequate. Aleksy had all the whiskey so that wasn't happening, so me and Logan quietly played and watched cartoons until the rest of the house started to stir.
Sunday morning - when the parents are tired, he can have all the electronics to keep him happy - Peppa on both our phones and the tablet? You got it kid.
After all 4 of us and the small person were all ready for the day, we packed up everything from the airbnb into the cars before the 11am check out and headed to explore parliament!
We sucked up the expensive $14 parking at the byward market for the convenience and walked over to parliament. We took a happy family photo to commemorate the visit to Mr. Justin's landmark.
And we did the walk around the parliament with the prime minister statues around (striking a memory from the last time I was there about 8-10 years ago with the bird poop on their heads) and this beautiful view of the lake!
After the parliament and a few pees in the Fairmont, we were going to head to lunch in the market when someone decided that his early wake up also warranted an early nap and he passed out in his stroller so we parted ways from Steph and Jon and headed to Montreal instead so we could take advantage of the sleeping in the car!
It was about 2 hours to Montreal and our Hotel Faubourg hotel. Construction around the core of Montreal was crazy so it took a little extra time to get to our hotel and even though Logan woke up halfway through the drive, he did really well and was happy playing with toys.
When we got to the hotel, they greeted Logan with a goodie bag of toys! That is our kind of hotel. Biggest parent bonus points for that! This is Logan's goodies - bath toys and a shaker.
Before heading to old Montreal, Logan had a quick hotel snack. This hotel was great with a full fridge and kitchenette too - so convenient for our travelling groceries.
We made it to old Montreal (so close to our hotel!) so family selfie with the Notre Dam cathedral of course.
Logan's favourite part of old Montreal was the horsies (Nehh!) that were everywhere! Every horse is an opportunity to stop, stare, and make a horsie noise.
Being in the stroller is just not how to enjoy old Montreal. Logan much prefers pushing behind the stroller so he can't see and if not pushing the stroller than grazing his hand along all the dirty pipes, railings along the side of the sidewalk.
But anything to keep him happy and enjoy Montreal!
After heading down to the Port of Montreal and walking by a cruise port (with a cruise ship docked!), we headed to this square where this picture was taken - I think this is where 80% of the tourists were!
We got a smoothie for Logan from here because we were feeling badly about the lack of fresh food for the goober. He drank it in 2.5 seconds as he does with smoothies.
And after our exploration and inability to find poutine (which we later learned was all around us), we headed back to the hotel after an IGA stop for some rotisserie chicken and microwavable mac and cheese for Logan, which we bought as a one time thing and then he didn't touch it. And of course, hand me down salad from Steph and Job who were going to throw it out.
We spent the rest of our night in Montreal eating the popcorn from Alyssa and Jon's wedding and watching Moana just like this. Then we all went to sleep just after 8pm. It was a perfect night to catch up on sleep since Logan goes to bed at 8 anyways!
And the next morning we packed up and got ready to go to the Biodome! It was the rainiest day so we were so glad that we got to see old Montreal the day before when it was nice out. We got poured on while heading to the subway station, but were so excited anyways for Logan to go on what we call the "choo choo". And he was pretty excited too.
Logans first ride on the subway. Loving all the same things as us: people watching and enjoying not being in the car!
Arrival to the stop with the Olympic stadium (which they hosted something like 20 years ago) and the biodome.
It was about $40 for the biodome -Logan was free. It was kind of narrow walkways so although there weren't tons and tons of people there like the Ripleys Aquarium in Toronto, it seemed really busy and difficult to see the animals/fish at times.
Interestingly, there was only 1 other family in the entire time we were there that we heard speak english.
I think Logan's favourite things were the fish - they were easier to see than finding the animals in their little areas.
Jellyfish are so cool!
We liked the penguins best! And Logan just wanted to go up and down the bleachers that had lots of free spaces so we could hear the lady talk about the penguins. Logan made it very clear that the presentation was not 2 year old friendly, so instead we looked at the penguins in awe for 2 minutes, redirected Logan from the bleachers a number of times then moved along.
The penguins were one of the last stops then we headed back on the subway (on the rainiest day!) back toward our hotel where our car was.
Logan stayed awake for the subway back, but once we started walking, he fell asleep in the stroller so we went to the indoor mall that was a couple blocks from our hotel - we needed wipes from the IGA store so after we grabbed those, we took advantage of nap time by hitting up a bit of Montreal poutine from the food court. With smoked meat because when in Montreal...
Guess who missed out on poutine?
The rain kind of put a damper on our plans to go to Mount Royal park and walk to the hill so we decided that we would just grab some smoked meat for lunch then head back on our long drive home. We had already experienced that touring in the rain with a toddler is not so fun. But smoked meat is.
So I found this smoked meat sandwich shop called Shwartz that seemed to have good tourist ratings and headed there. But that did not work out because there was a huge long line - in the rain outside! So we went straight back into the car and I found this gem of a restaurant: The Snowdon Deli. It was amazing and the Snowdon sandwich was awesome... but that warm smoked meat sandwich was the best! Logan had the turkey. Well a bite of it then we had the rest.
That was just the fuel we needed to start our drive home. We left around 2pm and got home at 11:30pm on the Thanksgiving Monday after a stop in Napanee: the busiest rest station ever that evening!
Logan was just as good on the way home and slept for the good later half of the drive and was easily made happy in the first part with some Peppa.
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