LABoratoire Créatif

Since there was a long hiatus in our posts, I’m going to try to catch up on what we’ve missed. First, we went to a Marché du LABoratoire Créatif, a fashion sale featuring designers from Quebec at Ailes de la Mode, held by LABoratoire Créatif. Check out their website for a listing of designers, future [...]

Salvation in the Underground City

This is a delayed post, and my apologies for the lull in entries around the holidays! Jon and I returned to Ohio to spend the holidays with each of our families, and had a wonderful time catching up with everyone, cooking and baking and candlestick-making (okay, maybe not the candlestick-making part), and then gorging ourselves [...]

Montreal Christmas Parade 2008

The other day, Jen and I were awoken to the droning repetition of Rockin’ Robin outside our window on Sainte-Catherine.  It was the Christmas parade setting up, literally 10 feet away.  So we got up and headed down to the festivities.
The evil source of Rockin’ Robin is pictured above.

Exploring the Urban Landscape

Many of you may already know my (and Jon’s) love of abandoned buildings and interest in urban exploration (also known as poking around abandoned buildings and sites). Our actual experience in urban exploration is extremely limited, as in we’ve never actually explored an abandoned building, but I have come close. In that case, I was [...]

…not something you see everyday…

These sculptures, originally spotted on Spacing Montreal, are by the artist Tuto, and are on display in Griffintown,  a revitalized industrial neighborhood near Old Montreal.
These statues will look quite interesting covered in a meter of snow and ice!
One thing I love about Montreal is that you just never know what you will see walking down [...]

Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal: Part Deux

I meant to post this last week, but I unfortunately got sick and never got it posted. Here is part 2 of our visit to the Montreal Museum of Fine Art.
In addition to the fun and avant garde Warhol Live exhibit, we also wandered through the wide range of permanent exhibits on display at the [...]

Inspiration Abounds at Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal

This past Sunday, Jon and I had an incredible time exploring the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal (Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, but it doesn’t sound as good in English), after seeing advertisements for the Warhol Live exhibit featuring the works of the legendary Mr. Andy Warhol.
I found the exhibit to be so inspiring that [...]

A Photo Journey Through Old Montreal!

As promised, long ago, we are finally ready to share our recent photo journey through Old Montreal and Griffintown.  Old Montreal, as everyone should know by now, is the original downtown of Montreal.  It is full of beautiful architecture and narrow European streets bursting at the seems with cafés, boutiques, art galleries, and restaurants.
Also attached [...]

Yikes! It’s been a while!

We’d first like to apologize to our loyal readers (surprisingly, we have some!) for the lack of activity here lately. We have been keeping plenty busy and have a plethora of blog entries to make. I’m going to skip ahead to what went on this past weekend, and we’ll try to fill in the rest [...]

A Petite Adventure in Petite Patrie.

We’re a couple weeks late in getting caught up but, this little adventure happened last weekend in a cute neighborhood called Petite Patrie.  Petite Patrie is part of the larger neighborhood of Rosemont.  Though a small community, it has a lot to offer.