Conference kaosws::canada

Quick trip report:

My wife and I spent last weekend in Canada.

First we went up through NH-VT and headed to Quebec.  We stayed at the Ramada
Inn in Saint Foy (Thanks to a tip in an earlier note).  Expected to do some
shopping Saturday night and were surprised to find the stores all close at
5 PM.  Hey, don't they know you can make a lot of money during the Christmas
season by staying open late?  ;^)

Anyway, our all day tour was great, just Su and I plus one other Texas real
estate dude (He says he's not very busy these days, so he travels.).  So the
three of us were in a tour bus (Crunch Quebec Tours) built for ~30 along with
our *British* guide named Charles (I called him Prince ;^).  Great place,
love to see again in summer sometime.

After the all day tour, we got in our car and drove to Montreal.  Took a
couple of "Wong" turns and ended up in a great place - the Ramada Inn next to
the Olympic Stadium on Sherbrooke.  There is a Chinese restaurant, Bill Wong's,
on the other side of the hotel and is not too bad.  Buffet that starts with
won ton soup; includes jumbo shrimp (all you want) on the well stocked salad
bar; hits most of the basic menu items; serves up carved beef and ham and
finishes off with a French desert table.  Try it next time in the city.

Of course we went to Rue Lajeunesse off of Jean Talon, and drove around the
city before going across the river on the combo car/train bridge.  Arggggh, I
dislike those steel mesh bridges!  Bought some winter boots in an "M" department
store.  The store was part of a nice little shopping mall that has a few food
stands in the promenade - had lunch there.  Headed home!  Wouldn't cha know it,
two hours out of Montreal - I lost my French accent!

Thanks to my early French classes and two years of high school study, I was
able to get by and even was able to order off the French menu.  Reading the
highway signs was fun, and dealing with km and liters of gasoline etc...

Thanks Canada for a memorable experience,
Joe Lajeunesse

    Oh boy, Joe, I don't think you realize that you've made a friend for
    life!!
    
    
    Jean Desrosiers!
    
    ;-)

    TRUE!
    
    It shows that some people DO appreciate a difference.
    
    
    Jean
    
      
    
    And mind the spelling of my name, it's Jean Des Rosiers.  In the
    system it's all in one word but these stupid VAXes can't deal too well
    with spaces.
    
    

	So does that mean that your middle name is Des?

	Grins,

	Charlie La Caille

    re .4
    
    You could try asking your system manager to change your login ID to
    DES_ROSIERS.
    
    Tony

    We had a problem with that solution as my name is long enough and
    sometimes (forwarding mail from a1 to VAXmail) it would overfill the
    provided fields even without the "_"
    
    Jean