A Quick Trip to Canada

Normally we wouldn't take this many road trips in one summer.

Let's hit it again.

2 weeks

1600 miles

Niagara Falls - Toronto - Montreal

First stop was Niagara Falls.

I've been here before, when I was about 9, so I thought it might be a lot smaller now.

But turns out it's still big, maybe even bigger than I remembered.

Towering over us with the thundering sound of the water.

When you're standing on the top of the falls and watching the water go over, you can't really tell the actual scale.

But when you're watching all that water pour out from the bottom, near the water, that's when you really get a sense of how big this thing really is.

This picture was taken from below the falls and I was one of the people in the yellow ponchos too, trying not to get wet from all the water, squeezing only one arm out to take quick shots.

Classic :p

In the picture above you can see the American Fall way way in the background.

So for those of you that don't know, Niagara Falls is made up of two major waterfalls. The Horseshoe Falls, and the smaller American Falls.

We crossed over to the Canadian side where you can get a closer and better view of the falls.

Anyways, next stop was Toronto, and along the way we stopped by what's called the Thousand Islands.

No, not like the salad dressing.

Actually, yea, probably like the salad dressing.

It's a river that goes between the US and Canada border that holds, literally a thousand islands.

Some islands are big enough to hold big houses on and others are barely big enough to stand on.

We got on a boat that cruises along the river for about 2 hours, passing islands and houses that are built along the sides of the river as well.

We got on a boat that cruises along the river passing islands and houses that are built along the sides of the river as well.

Moving on to the next destination.

Montreal !

So they call Montreal the Paris of North America.

They speak French, so while driving to up North, after a certain period of time, we couldn't read the road signs. Then we knew we were getting close.

Most of the stores are all in French and everyone spoke French, so I had to do some research ahead of time to find a few places we wanted to visit, which included this great Gnocchi place.

This is where we really got the feeling that we were walking in the lost streets of Paris.

Really really good French Bistros, crepes, old roads made of cobble stones and lots, lots of maple syrup stores.

I found a camera store with some real nice Leica classics and some film.

I was almost done with the roll of film I was using so I thought it might be a good place to pick up a fresh roll.

After a day of exploring old Montreal, we headed back to our hotel.

On our way back I ran into this shot and a few others.

We were crossing the street and the sun was just coming over Mount Royal and flooded the street with this magnificent sunset.

Sliding off the buildings, it created a pallet of pink, orange and my personal favorite purple :o

And sorry about this serious over-exposure, I was blocking the street so I had to make the shot quick.

I also got a lot of requests to put up more pictures, and less words :( so I'll be setting them up at the bottom after my, yes, long long story.

>:(

But for now, the story goes on.

After a few more days in Montreal, on our way back home we decided to visit one last place.

The Marchie Saint Jaques farmers market, where we spent way more time than we should have but, who doesn't, it's a farmers market!

Here there were all sort of people, locals who came to get their fresh fruit and vegetables as well as tourist that came to get a taste of local produce.

They had everything you could think of and everything you forgot to think of too.

From apples to pineapples, all your tropical fruit and all locally grown berries.

Great cottage cheese and some amazing apple cider from even further up north where it gets super cold and of course, maple syrup.

But of all the things that this market had, there was one thing that threw me off the most.

And it was these carrots, not that I've never seem carrots but, LOOK!

Purple carrots, Yellow caRROTS?

All my life the only color and type of carrot I've known was orange carrots, I've never seen different colored carrots so I had to stop and really get a good look.

I wanted to ask if these were carrots but I realized I needed to ask in French for that.

But guys come get a closer look at this, this city boy has never seen anything like this.

So if you look really closely, there are purple carrots with orange tips!

So what I'm still trying to figure out is, do carrots start out purple and then start turning orange by the time they're at the grocery store?

Or is that an orange carrot that's almost complete turning purple?

Or are they not carrots at all??

So many questions and not enough answers.

Anyways, that's enough about carrots. I know they aren't the prettiest to look at so, here's something a bit more appealing.

Beautiful aren't they?

The tent was yellow, so the sunlight hitting from the back was perfect for all the rest of the flowers to be getting a nice glow.

I'm glad I had something to cover up my story with after the whole carrot mystery/triller.

If you guys know, just shoot me a message cause I still really want to know.

Well that pretty much sums up this trip and our quick Time Travel Together.

Till our next meet, stay cool everybody.

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