Canada, we stand on guard for thee!
Jan. 4th, 2006 08:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fivemackHome-made steak. Poutine à la Vladimir at Frites Alors!. A Jo-cooked goose. A Jo-cooked goose pie. French-language Lebanese food. Francophone Greek food consisting of lumps of roast lamb. A Jo-cooked shepherd's pie, followed by a pie consisting essentially of caramel and raisins in a piecrust which was too rich even for me.
Other than food, the Biodome (an indoor zoo; beavers, porcupines, lynx, golden tamarin monkeys, penguins!); the orchid gardens of the Botanic Gardens many of whose collected Useful Plants I had seen in more fruitful form in places where they grow without needing glasshouses and special heaters; today, a museum in the Napoleonic fort on an island in the icy Saint-Laurent, including a collection of rich-production-values high-school physics demonstrations made during the Enlightenment for the education of ignorant-of-physics but fond-of-spectacle German princelings.
Portrait photography of some of the people I'm staying with, it being a time suitable for the renewal of memberships at places requiring photo-ID on family membership tickets.
Friday, we head by train to Quebec City, one of the earlier major settlements in North America (1602, I think), and one of the larger remaining walled cities.
Other than food, the Biodome (an indoor zoo; beavers, porcupines, lynx, golden tamarin monkeys, penguins!); the orchid gardens of the Botanic Gardens many of whose collected Useful Plants I had seen in more fruitful form in places where they grow without needing glasshouses and special heaters; today, a museum in the Napoleonic fort on an island in the icy Saint-Laurent, including a collection of rich-production-values high-school physics demonstrations made during the Enlightenment for the education of ignorant-of-physics but fond-of-spectacle German princelings.
Portrait photography of some of the people I'm staying with, it being a time suitable for the renewal of memberships at places requiring photo-ID on family membership tickets.
Friday, we head by train to Quebec City, one of the earlier major settlements in North America (1602, I think), and one of the larger remaining walled cities.
