back, trying to catch up

[redbird]

I'm back online after five days (I was staying with rysmiel, who has been having problems with their home internet access); I will try to catch up, but if you posted anything that you specifically want to be sure I notice, email would be a useful backup.

I am still trying to rest my knees (not as easy as at home, since rysmiel lives in a walkup apartment and doesn't have an accessible metro station), so we spent a lot of time quietly reading and talking and enjoying each other's company and the cool weather; we walked around the neighborhood, but didn't go much beyond that. Saturday we went down to the Gay Village for supper, and yesterday we went to Chinatown for lunch, got gelato at Maple Delight in the Old Port, then went to the Musee des Beaux Artes to see a glass exhibit that isn't the one I saw in April. Sometime Friday or Saturday I stopped counting flights of stairs (I'd already done, I think, as many since arriving in Montreal as I had in all of June; yesterday evening I hit "enough" and we revised our plans to get dinner in walking distance again. One small but real (and expected/planned for) disappointment of sparing the knees is that I didn't get a croissant the entire trip; the usual patisserie on Rue Sherbrooke is through a passageway under a highway; that plus the stairs to/from rysmiel's apartment would have been an extra four flights for a round trip, and I don't need croissants and pastry that much.

I want to note one odd sushi roll from last night (which I liked better when I had a first piece at the beginning of the meal than a second near the end): canned mandarin, cucumber, tobiko, tempura flakes, and I think mayonnaise, plus sushi rice, all wrapped in nori. When suggesting it, rysmiel said it didn't feel like sushi, but it was good; I said "sure" because I was completely unable to imagine what it would like. (Technically, it is sushi, but it's not what I think of when I think of sushi.) I don't know if I'll get that again, but I'm glad to have tried it. (This was from Soba and Sushi, also on Rue Sherbrooke O., not too far from Vendome metro station.)

Comments

[daharyn.livejournal.com]

Oh, when you were at the musee were you able to see "Drive End," the photo installation? I really liked that extremely much. :)

Happy to hear of a good visit, and hoping your knees recuperate from the additional stress.

[redbird]

Yes, I was. I especially liked the photo of the old man there: it was the one of the four that I thought would have worked well by itself, without the context of the others.