So my uncle is on vacation, and brought his two sons and his gf to Montreal and invited my grand-parents to join them, who in turn voluntold me to come along to the biodôme and the mosaïculture. I told my grand-mother I wasn't interested, but she conveniently "forgot" due to her age (her words, not mine) and I felt bad wasting tickets, so I grudgingly went along (not that I had anything else to do anyway, I kind of have no friends in Montreal yet... *wimper* ).
It was crazy hot here, so we decided to go to Mosaïculture in the morning, since it's outside. Basically, it's an exposition of giant steel sculptures covered in flowers. It's amazing. Honestly. I'll be posting pictures in a different post, because I have so many and so much to say about them, and I don't want this one becoming too long.
Afterwards, my uncle treated us to lunch at Pacini, a nice (sympa is more the word I'm looking for here) italian diner, where I had mushroom creme and ceasar salad, clearly the way to impress our cute waiter with my originality. There was also a dessert they called dolci (see, I'm not the only one who's lacking originality. Dolci is quite literally, dessert, in Italian), a flavoured cream (there was dark chocolate, hazelnut chocolate, crunchy chocolate, vanilla and berry, and lemon). I now know why no where on the menu there was an indication of what it was, because not only do we have no idea what's in it, we don't even have the proper name for it... hence no googling recipes. I'm kind of disappointed, because I was so excited to try it at home (so if anyone knows what I'm talking about, and the name and/or recipe, please, hit me up!).
When Henri started getting fussy, we headed for the biodome, which is a very blown-up version of the third floor at Science North. I didn't get to see the two toed sloth this time, but they did have a capybara and some screaming monkeys, which were absolutely adorable and I completely fell in love with (the capybara is the largest rodent in the world, but it looks like a slim, furry pig, and is adorable in real life. The monkeys have a round, child-like, innocent face that is impossible to not love). There are also baby lynxes, and if you've never seen any, google them. I challenge you not to think at least once that you want one in your house.
Henri absolutely lost it over the fish and every aquarium was a new source of delighted squeals and high-fiving the glass repetitively. I'm pretty sure the person that cleans the glass will notice the spots where he squished his tiny face against it in the hopes of seeing the fish from even closer.
All in all it was a pretty exhausting day, and I'm about as dead as my phone is (which is why the pictures will be uploaded later), so I'm off to take a nap.
Thanks for reading!
Vero
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