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papersky. ("We" being her, me, rysmiel, zorinth, and fivemack, with occasional appearances by other people.)
The trip up was longer than it should have been—long enough to inconvenience the friends who were waiting for me—in part because instead of changing engines at Albany, we changed trains. But I had window seats on the east side of the train both ways, and spent lots of time looking at Lake Champlain. The highlight was what I'm fairly sure was a trio of bald eagles, flying low over the frozen surface, on my way home yesterday; on the way up I saw herons and goldeneyes [a kind of duck].
My old boots leaked, despite being freshly sprayed with the waterproofing stuff; I have abandoned them, after several days of slow dampness, and will be boot-shopping in the next day or two. The problem wasn't snow, it was slush, because we had unseasonably warm weather (highs a degree or three above freezing, lows slightly below freezing) for most of my stay.
Even when one of the party speaks Mandarin fluently, it is possible to wind up with dim sum that none of you know the ingredients of. It all tasted good, though. I was startled to find that nobody else had eaten taro before, but they liked it. For New Year's, we went to Marche Atwater and got a goose, which Papersky roasted, with many other good things, for New Year's Eve dinner; there was enough left to make a superior goose pie the next day.
I was glad to meetdenizsarikaya and somecanuckchick, and have them for additional company at the Biodome and an early supper. There's only one beaver at the Biodome right now, but it was active and we enjoyed watching it. The problem with going to zoos during school holidays is that everyone had the same idea, but we got a good long look at everything.
Rysmiel gives excellent, thorough backrubs: I felt much better for it.
I have now played Settlers of Catan, and won my first game; I played (and lost at) Monopoly for the first time in many years. We also played Scrabble, Credo, Fluxx, and a card-trading and -collecting game whose name I keep forgetting. Tyson (WINOLJ), Zorinth's friend who lives downstairs, joined us for about half of these.
The Science Museum was fun, though after a while the exhibits get to looking familiar: a lot of the good science museum exhibits are replicated in numerous places. Also, I lost an earring there, one of a pair of Landsat Earth beads; I have hopes of replacing it, since it's a commercially available earring, not a one-of-a-kind made byelisem.
I'm glad to be home withcattitude, but was sorry to leave Montreal and my friends there so soon.
papersky. ("We" being her, me, rysmiel, zorinth, and fivemack, with occasional appearances by other people.)The trip up was longer than it should have been—long enough to inconvenience the friends who were waiting for me—in part because instead of changing engines at Albany, we changed trains. But I had window seats on the east side of the train both ways, and spent lots of time looking at Lake Champlain. The highlight was what I'm fairly sure was a trio of bald eagles, flying low over the frozen surface, on my way home yesterday; on the way up I saw herons and goldeneyes [a kind of duck].
My old boots leaked, despite being freshly sprayed with the waterproofing stuff; I have abandoned them, after several days of slow dampness, and will be boot-shopping in the next day or two. The problem wasn't snow, it was slush, because we had unseasonably warm weather (highs a degree or three above freezing, lows slightly below freezing) for most of my stay.
Even when one of the party speaks Mandarin fluently, it is possible to wind up with dim sum that none of you know the ingredients of. It all tasted good, though. I was startled to find that nobody else had eaten taro before, but they liked it. For New Year's, we went to Marche Atwater and got a goose, which Papersky roasted, with many other good things, for New Year's Eve dinner; there was enough left to make a superior goose pie the next day.
I was glad to meet
denizsarikaya and somecanuckchick, and have them for additional company at the Biodome and an early supper. There's only one beaver at the Biodome right now, but it was active and we enjoyed watching it. The problem with going to zoos during school holidays is that everyone had the same idea, but we got a good long look at everything.Rysmiel gives excellent, thorough backrubs: I felt much better for it.
I have now played Settlers of Catan, and won my first game; I played (and lost at) Monopoly for the first time in many years. We also played Scrabble, Credo, Fluxx, and a card-trading and -collecting game whose name I keep forgetting. Tyson (WINOLJ), Zorinth's friend who lives downstairs, joined us for about half of these.
The Science Museum was fun, though after a while the exhibits get to looking familiar: a lot of the good science museum exhibits are replicated in numerous places. Also, I lost an earring there, one of a pair of Landsat Earth beads; I have hopes of replacing it, since it's a commercially available earring, not a one-of-a-kind made by
elisem.I'm glad to be home with
cattitude, but was sorry to leave Montreal and my friends there so soon.