1st. Y’all need to blog today so I can read.
So it’s finally Friday. Exciting times up ahead. Packing. No really, we are coming down to the wire now since the movers will come on Tuesday morning – so we’ll be doing the majority of the packing tonight and then all day Saturday and whatever’s left on Sunday.
Because writing an actual entry would take too much effort on this Friday… I’ll just talk about someone else’s entries. But first! Food that I’ve been meaning to post – but never got around to – these are from a birthday lunch that Leah’s Grandmother (Bubbi) prepared for Leah’s Father:
Homemade Fried Chicken!
Biscuits
Pecan Pie.
And you may all let go of any self control. Eat good food this weekend. 🙂
After going down the links in my sidebar to catch myself up on everyone’s posts (I really should set up that rss feed reader) – I stopped to read the latest entries from our friend Ark A. – also an Atlanta resident/transplant – about her recent trip to Canada/Toronto/Montreal. – and in the process made me feel like I’m wasting my time posting nothing posts that meander about infinitely worthless subjects. *writes note to self: ummmm… nevermind I forgot*
So while I wait for the next season of No Reservations/Anthony Bourdain to verify that this past season is where the show truly ‘Jumped the Shark’ – I just have to keep looking for travel blogs/entries like the ones Ark A. posted this last week.
The trip to Canada started on a Friday morning. A simple two hour direct flight from Atlanta and we were in Toronto International Airport, the cleanest, quietest most spacious airport I’ve ever seen.
Dad picked us up. He couldn’t believe it had been almost five years since we saw each other.
He said I hadn’t changed a bit. I love him.
This is what I call smiling so hard it hurts…
I have a lot of history in that neighborhood. Loves found, loves lost, school, work, old friends, new friends, formulating the plan to get to Seattle to meet the whole other half of my family – it all happened there.
And then when they land back in Atlanta:
A two hour flight later, I was in what can only be described as severe culture shock… Hotter than hell, humid, southern accents all around me, no French, a pig carcass that had been cooked in the ground on a long buffet table, a live auction for football jerseys and country music star albums. Where am I?
And… apparently she’s back in Montreal now. Lucky her.
Here are the three posts in order:
- Return to Canada – Part One: Toronto
- Return to Canada – Part Two: Montreal
- Return to Canada – Part Three: Montreal
Have a great weekend! – But obviously, we’ll have a new post up tomorrow.
Well howdy Mark, or should I say salut!
I’m glad you found the Canada recap engaging. It is a sliver of a fraction of a particle of all the wonderful things I saw (and am currently seeing as I’m here again right now) during that trip. It truly is living city with diversity and music and oh my God the food…
Keep in mind I have not seen any fried chicken, biscuits or any other southern goodies but I’m making it through somehow.
More of Montreal to come when I return to Atlanta soon.
Wow, I swear I gain 2 lbs just from stopping by and reading…lol