Welcome to Montreal!

Since this is my first post to this blog, it would be a good idea to get you up-to-date on what's been going on since I left the United States in June, 2005 and now, May 2006. This will be mostly a pictorial entry as I have a backlog of photos I've been wanting to share but never got around to posting them.

I want to apologize in advance as all of these photos were taken with a camera phone and then strewn haphazardly up on this blog. Please be gentle!

On commence!


I moved to Montreal with my wife, Marie-Pierre in the middle of 2005. I took a job with EMC Corporation of Canada. I travel around Eastern Canada installing EMC products and integrating our hardware with the customers' environments. Some of them are very friendly.



It was such a hassle to get my old 1995 Lincoln Town Car imported into Quebec that I was very excited to finally get my Quebec license plate. It sorta made me feel like I was finally getting settled in.







When I was starting to get settled, I spent a lot of time wandering around McGill University since it's so close to where I work. I thought the School of Music was really a nice looking building and McGill is about the only place downtown where you can find an open field.




This is Tour McGill College where my office is. The first one is a picture from the East with a nice church steeple in front and the second is from the West.

It's a pretty distinct building with the pyramid on top.






You see some funny things when you spend as much time in airports as I do. These two golf carts in the Toronto airport ran into each other, at which point the two women in red jackets (just right of center) started arguing loudly with one another. I couldn't help but laugh!














It's always reassuring when you're on a plane that there will be enough safety devices for everyone: "Can I have another seat please?!"




Finally, I'll close with some nice scenery. The first two photos here are of Cornerbrook Newfoundland in the Fall. It was really pretty there.






































The last two are photos of Florenceville New Brunswick (Home of McCain Foods). The camera phone I used doesn't do it justice. And it was Winter, so everything was dead, but trust me it's pretty. Outside of Florenceville is the world's longest covered bridge at somewhere in the neighborhood of 1/4 mile.