Jenna and I then headed to the osteoblast session where we met up with John again. The session was scientifically interesting, but I think we were all a lil brain fried by that point, so we amused ourselves with the man that obviously loved the sound of his own voice.... he also, somehow, managed to acknowledge him in his own talk?!
And that was it. The end of the conference. Farwell ASBMR... well... for this year anyways!
Afterwards we met up with Hayley and decided we’d go to see the Biodomé with Garry (who was still actually in bed at that point). We went for a bit of food first, stopping at a pizza shop where “we” met a very nice boy from Ottawa... I think Jenna was hoping he might stalk us and meet us at Biodomé but alas it was not to be.
We caught the Metro at Pie IX and waited for Garry... eventually we worked out Garry was at Viau (one stop up)... and of course as we were in the subway (aka underground) we didn’t get his messages. But either way, it worked out. We met up and headed into the BIODOMÉ!!
So I guess the Biodomé is really just a zoo – but it has simulated environments where you can walk around and have the animals flying and playing all around you. The first eco system we headed into was the tropical rainforest – it was pretty cool. There were birds flying everywhere and monkeys in the trees!! Even though the monkeys were a lil shy they did come down from the tops of the trees eventually so we could have a good look at them. There were also Caimans & Turtles and of course LOTS and LOTS of birds!! (There is also meant to be a sloth but we couldn’t see hide nor hair of it L)
Golden tamarin
Capybara
Some birds
After the rainforest section we headed into the St Lawerence Forrest section. Now one of the main reasons Jenna & Hayley wanted to visit the Biodomé was to see the Otters.... but unfortunately for us they were asleep L However there were also Beavers, Porcupines (up trees?) and the Lynxes (like tabby cats... but BIGGER). You could actually have a look at the beavers from underwater and we had great fun watching this one beaver that seemed to be swimming on the one spot all the time!!
Sleeping Otter
Eating Beaver
Porcupine up tree
Then was the St Lawerence River section – which had all these massive fishes, an 8kg Lobster (it was HUGE), bird and these cool ‘smiley’ stingrays. Beyond that was the arctic section which has penguins & puffins galore. We spent a bit of time there checking them out – so cute!!
Puffin & Penguin
Penguin’s Mother’s Club! J
After spending some time in the arctic enclosure we decided to see if we were able to back-track to the otters to see if they were awake... unfortunately for us they weren’t. As we came out thought there was another exhibit – straight from Madagascar.... LEMURS! They were very cute! After that we headed out of the Biodomé back to the Metro station. Garry left us at this point and went to meet a friend of his, just leaving myself, Jenna and Hayley.
Lemur
We decided to walk into town instead of catching the metro – on the way we stopped in for some MacDonalds! (Can’t go to North America with going to Maccas at least once!!) Eventually we headed down Rue Sherbrooke on the search for a HSBC branch for Jenna – we spent an hour or so walking but could not seem to find it at all. Eventually, Jenna tried another ATM cash point which magically decided to work. There was a café nearby, so we decided to stop there for a coffee. The coffee there was actually FANTASTIC and is the best coffee I’ve had in Canada so far! While we were there Jenna wrote up a whole bunch of postcards for her friends back home, and Hayley and I decided to see to pick a nice restaurant for dinner.
Hayley picked this Italian restaurant that I think was called Le Emma... or maybe De Emma... It was down in Old Montréal, so we headed down that way to find the place. It took a lil bit of searching and once we got there the kitchen was actually too busy to seat us – so we had the option to wait or go. The bar was looking nice and tantalising so we decided to wait it out, which ended up being a very good decision. After about half an hour we got give a table and a menu full of dishes in Italian... after some translational help – we all got a bottle of wine and some mixed salads, I got the Penne Al Salmone, Jenna got the Veal and Hayley the Baby Pig (the main reason she wanted to go here actually!!). The food was DELICIOUS!! We each had a try of everyone else’s dishes and each one was fantastic. Hayley’s ‘baby’ pig was actually so massive that she thought she had been given something else by mistake. There was actually so much that we decided that the all of us would have a picnic the next day with the leftovers. After dinner, full and satisfied we all decided to head back home for some much needed rest.
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