Montreal. The Magnificent Notre-Dame Basilica.

Today, Maxy and I took a break from the kids, leaving them behind to explore Kingston on their own.  We hit the road and headed up to Montreal.  The drive from DC up to Kingston was Maxy's first time at doing a long distance drive and who knew she would fall in love with driving.  So, when I suggested she and I escape to Montreal for the day, she was all in, even though it meant a three hour long drive!

We decided to hit the road early, leaving our hotel in Kingston shortly after 7a.  The kids were still asleep.

Exploring a 1000 Islands.

We arrived into Kingston yesterday afternoon and spent the rest of the day walking about the Princess Street area. Maxy figured we'll all have more time to explore the city as we work on getting her daughter settled into Queen's. So, we decided to spend today going on a cruise of the 1000 Islands. When my parents deposited me at Queen's, we also did a cruise. Of course, I don't remember a single moment of that so today's visit was as if I had never been! I had read that the best place to take the cruise from is the nearby town of Gananoque so that was our destination.

O Kingston!

A couple of weeks ago, I walked into the office of a former colleague, Maxy.  I really just wanted to say hello and do a bit of catching up as it had been quite some since we had last connected with each other.

As the conversation progressed, I come to find out that she would soon be taking her youngest daughter to university and that by sheer coincidence, it was my alma mater - Queen's University!  Her plan was to drive her daughter up to Queen's and she invited me to come along.  How could I say no?  It'll be a fun road trip and I've not been back to Queen's in decades.