USA vs CANADA

After beeing back in Montreal for just a little over 1 month, here are some of the things that we terribly miss (other than our friends and family of course)

• Good Mexican food


• Good barbecue food


• Target (they only have walmart here)


• Stubbs BBQ sauce (scratch that we just found some in a Libanese grocery store)


• Our Friday night diner at Central Market (Fancy grocery store in Dallas with a very good cafe)


• Kinko's (such store just does not really exist here)


• Caffeinated Mountain Dew for Jeff (the ountain dew here is caffein free)


• Internet replay of our favorite TV shows (for some reasons it won't let us watch any since we are in Canada)
• Drive-thru Starbucks
• Drive-thru ATM (it is hard to get all the kids out of the car seat everytime)

But of course we also have been enjoying lots of things here in Montreal...

• Fresh bagel


• Abondance of very very good pastries and bread and cheese and pate (not good for our weight)


• Having lots of visits with my old friends


• Going to the park and making new friends (because of the 1 year paid maternity leave Quebec is having a big increase in babies and all the moms love going to the park just like me!)


• Jeff is having fun tasting all the diffenerent beer from the local microbruweries


• Free immunizations (haven't had to use the health care for anything else yet...knock on wood!)


• Fresh local strawberries


• Marche Jean-Talon (one of the best farmers market in the world I think)


• Abondance of real maple syrup (and not overpriced)


• Lobster season
• I had forgotten how culturally diverse Montreal is... we drive thru little italy, chinatown, the farmer's market, we see all sort of restaurants of different ethnicity.