Yesterday was the sort of day which one might term “fun and productive”,
because it was both fun and productive.

Candice and I went down to Montreal for the day. While we
were there, we:

• Went out to St Hubert Airport to pick up my Pilot Training
  Record, which I talked about over in the other place you should be reading regularly.

• Stopped by a couple of Structube stores, which ostensibly
  sold the couch that we
  wanted, but despite being listed on the website it’s discontinued. Drat.
  Looked at one of these
  instead, but I don’t know that I want something armless — it’s a
  little too futon-like. We’re going to take a look at some of the sofas
  that EQ3 offer too. Outside of that
  and Ikea there’s really no affordable modern furniture here though
  — Van
  Leeuwen and Alteriors and Ligne Roset
  all have fantastic furniture that costs an order of magnitude more than
  I can afford.

• Stopped by Zone to pick up two
  Delta
  chairs. Those were the first modern classics I set my eye on, and
  it’s nice to have a couple of real modern pieces instead of modern-ish.
  (Not that there’s anything wrong with that, but there’s history here too
  — the Delta chair, also known as the S34, was with the armless S33
  the first cantilevered chair, designed in 1929 by Mart Stam.)

• Went to the Montreal
  Biodome! I’ve been there a few times before but I couldn’t imagine
  getting tired of it. I didn’t have a camera this time, but I have older
  pictures. The rainforest was quiet, which meant no playing monkeys,
  but we did get to see the lynx roaming about and meowing like Mouse does
  when she wants to play, and in the Antarctic area we saw the penguins
  being fed! Cutest thing ever. All of the little penguins crowd around,
  or wait out in the water to catch thrown herring, but the emperor
  penguins pretty much just line up for food. When the feeder goes to
  another part of the area, the emperor penguins went with her, some
  following and some leading the way — I think maybe they’ve done
  this before.

• And spent a lot of time sitting on cafe patios watching the world
  pass by. It was a beautiful day and Montreal is such a great
  people-watching city.

Couldn’t ask for a better day.