Big, fat snowflakes fell all day in Montréal on December 29th, our last full day in Canada. We explored Vieux-Montréal and Vieux Port by foot, stepping in to the churches we passed and admiring the cobblestone streets and historic buildings. Jack had done some research before our trip, too, and had asked to go to the Biodôme, an Olympic velodrome now converted into a natural history museum with four distinct ecosystems, where we would get to see penguins, puffins, and the capybara. It was a good excuse, too, to seek some refuge indoors, so we took the metro out to Parc Olympique for the Biodôme and also a show at the Rio Tinto Alcan Planetarium. We ended our lovely winter day with dinner in Vieux-Montréal and some ice skating in the Old Port.
{outside the basilique notre-dame-de-montréal}
{the gilded interior of basilique notre-dame-de-montréal}
{chapelle notre-dame-de-bon-secours, known as the sailors’ church}
{the biodôme}
{hôtel de ville | ice skating in the old port with a backdrop of vieux-montréal}
{exploring the old port, we got a view of île ste-hélène and the biosphère.}
{one last look at vieux-montréal and the sailors’ church. we headed home the next day.}
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