Date Night
by ophelielechat
J. and I had plans to go to the Jazz Fest, but, with the awful weather we’ve been having, we decided to play it safe and catch a movie instead.
(Wow, I hope not everyone is thinking like this. I promise to go to the Jazz Fest before it’s over, rain or no rain!)
First, we had dinner at Burritoville, in their new-ish digs on Bishop street, in the building that used to house Art and Tea. I’ve always loved that building — it’s cozy, with big windows and old wood fixtures. The food was delicious and cheap, mostly organic and locally-sourced. I recently re-read Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, which always inspires me to watch what I eat and where it’s coming from.
We got tickets to the 3-D showing of Up, complete with nifty oversize glasses. They were plain dark glasses, no red-blue lenses. I cried so hard at the first few minutes of the film! They really did a great job of conveying the characters’ lives without speech. Fantastic.
Later, we caught the 108 home, freezing outside on a lovely July evening. When is Montreal going to be unbearably balmy, so that we can complain about that?