Joe and I spent overnight in Montreal last weekend. It's a fun ciy. Lots of beautiful old architecture, interesting culture/history, beautiful riverside park, and a lot to do. There were numerous festivals going on at the same time. We didn't get pictures, but happened upon the "Just For Laughs" festival the night that we were there. Puppet shows, street performers, random parades, strange 'Totoro' looking characters, people running around with devil horns on theirs heads...it was bizarre but fun. We found ourselves a small outdoor French style cafe/bar and holed up there for the evening while we watched the festivities.
Old Downtown Montreal
This weekend, Sara and I headed for the beautiful driftless area of Wisconsin and rented a canoe for a 3 hour trip down the Kickapoo River. First time I rented a canoe from a bartender. The kid running the show for canoe rentals within the bar at the supposed "Kickapoo Yacht Club" had the intelligence of a newt (or less), but otherwise this was an easy way to rent a canoe and spend a beautiful day in the Kickapoo Valley. We ran into a couple of large groups--in particular one large college group (one of their canoes was dubbed "The Titanic"). However, we were otherwise pretty much alone on the river, saw pretty bluffs, king fishers, Great Blue Herons, muskrats, lots of small fish, and only got stuck about ten times on logs and sandbars in the low level river.
We ended the day by driving back up highway 14 and stopping at Peck's farmstand. Unknown to us, they have a decent size petting zoo there. I fed some corn to some happy, wagging goats. Disturbingly, they greatly reminded me of Honey. There was a camel and zebra also kept in the zoo, but the only way to feed them was by ways of a very long PVC pipe. The camel has yet to figure out how to spit up the pipe. Prairie Dogs were also in a circular pen, but they were more concerned about digging their holes. One looked like it was making progress on burrowing its way out.
Great Blue Heron on the Kickapoo
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