Bridge ( Montreal II )

.
On Sunday we met Kathy White from Toronto for lunch and walked around the old part of Montreal down at the Saint Laurent River. A lot of development going on there; lots of new condos plus renovated lofts and all dirt cheap. Montreal has a nice feel….French charm, American efficiency and everybody is just so friendly……
They also have a big Gay Pride Parade here but unlike Europe, The US and even Toronto it is just very political and certainly not a party. Hardly any music or weird and wonderful people to watch...just banners in French demanding this or the other. Gave up after 2 hours and had "Tonkinoise"....the local chinese type of food. Yammie.

Pim and I started the Bridge competition on Monday morning at 9 o’clock and despite the fact that I hadn’t played for more than a year the result at the end of the day wasn’t bad…: 5th place. In other words you can only go down. We’re with 10 players from Amsterdam (the same ones that also went to Sydney) and we’re having a lot of fun. But it’s difficult to focus for two times three hours per day.

Time for a bit of relaxation was called for and so in order to celebrate Pim’s birthday (40 once again) he had invited a whole group of friends for dinner in the old part of Montreal. Since Hans and I had just come in from Honolulu we did a Hula greeting and gave all the guests a Lei. I have just never been so embarrassed in my whole life. But it’s amazing how quick you adjust and I just wanted to go on dressed up or rather down through the whole town.
Next time I will not hesitate to shed my clothes “en plein publique” and go around looking like a sad old queen.