I'm in LaChine/Montreal the last part of the week on work. When I return from the frozen tundra I shall post pictures and anything interesting that might happen. So far it's been good and my ability to read French is pretty solid. No one's put my spoken French to the test just yet. Only thing worth noting so far was dinner last night, an AWESOME prime rib. Even more awesome than that was the garlic mashed taters with big hunks of roasted garlic. Well TTFN.

So yesterday after work I went in search of food. I was originally trying to find some sort of Asian place, preferably Thai, but it was not meant to be. Instead I found East Side Mario's, a Canadian pizza chain. It was pretty awesome from a pizza standpoint. I had an Italian sausage with cherry pepper slices. The best part though was dessert. They served up a funnel cake (a very DENSE funnel cake) with vanilla ice cream, caramel sauce, and strawberries. YUMMM.

Dinner was Tandori Chicken at Gandhi's, a fantastic Indian place. Unfortunately my lunch and a Mochacino and biscotti from Second Cup (Canada's biggest coffee chain) interfered a bit, but I ducked in to get out of the SNOW.

So why the title of this entry? Well breakfast this morning was at a hole in the wall Diner as neither Tim Horton's nor McDonald's took my Amex and I was cashless. It turned out to be okay though. I ordered a western omlette in my best francais and sharing the plate was a little silver cup of navy beans. They were really quite good (as was the omlette, though a smidge dry), but I was all "What the heck? Beans?". I must make inquiries as to whether that's a Canadian thing, a Montreal thing, or just the diner.

Here's hoping they weren't too musical.

So a few of the pictures I took actually looked pretty decent and I figured I'd share.