market day.

market goodies. 

peaches, potatoes, baguettes, bananas

lettuce, onions, garlic, cherry tomatoes

eggplant, sausage, and wine!

peach cobbler for dinner

and roasted potatoes and eggplant on the menu sometime soon

the wine was from romania....

a long way from Quebec, I know

I'm realizing now

that I was incredibly and irreversibly spoiled

by french wine, cheese, bread and yogurt.

besides the lack of variety,

the price tags are enough to make you faint.

or simply change your eating habits i guess.

but are few things i like better

than taking a saturday morning stroll

to load up a bag with fresh

farmer's market goodies.

thankfully that's similar in most cultures :)

today we took a hike up 

le mont royal

pronounced in french exactly like montreal

it's the city's namesake after all

the 'mountain' in the middle of the city

my french chicago!

we went with a new friend i made,

an american named ali.

we bonded on the fact that we spell our name the same,

allison,

childhood gymnastics memories,

and cross country road trip stories.

and the adorableness of her dog, luna.

a great pyrenees, who was certainly the star today during our walk.

we actually had a group of (spanish?) tourists

ask to take a picture with luna.

without ali in the picture?

luna seemed pretty used to the attention!

tomorrow, to celebrate labor day,

we're heading to a mont orford,

our second national park in quebec.

how are you spending the holiday weekend?

winding down the summer with a campfire and barbeque?

picnic in the park?

catching up with grad school reading? (i will be!)

a+

alli