Taking the Tram to Hipsterville

         Emily’s parents are in town and Sandy’s best friend Cecilia is visiting so Lea and I decided to go on an adventure.  We started out doing some antiquing down at Notre Dame where we found some really cool old journals and magazines, so I picked a few up as gifts for a certain few people (I guess you will find out who you are when you get them).  After we did that we stopped at a little café right outside of the antique shop.  

 Notre Dame lies right in the heart of the art district, so all of the places around are really cute and artsy, it has such a different vibe than centre ville.  It’s very quiet, the people are very charming, and it isn’t quite so bustling.  It should be noted that the weather today was also really bizarre.  Most of the day while we were out is was warm, but it was overcast and we knew that a storm was coming, the clouds looked really menacing but you didn’t have to wear a jacket.  After we got a coffee we decided to take the tram all the way in the other direction from school (we basically live in the middle of the B line of the tram and most everything is right there in centre ville so we never go out into the banlieus).  When we got there we found this amazing out-door art exhibit.  It was not completed yet, one of the artists said the exhibit was officially open on the 17^th of April, but it was still so cool.  It was (to me) an experiment on the contrast of industrialization and nature, so there were a lot of woodwork pieces mélanged with metalwork, graffiti on vine-covered walls, etc. it was really cool.  

 The whole place was sort of hipsterville though, so Lea and I took some portraits (Hipster-noun: overly-exaggerated nerd in appearance who dabbles in fields such as painting, photography (or photo-shop), riding bikes, and moustaches).  I received a care package in the mail today that included chalk that I brought with me when I left home, so on our way back to the tram stop we decided to do a few drawings.   

We ambled back home and got caught in the rain only a little, but fortunately I was back home with a cup of tea just in time to watch the thunder and lightning storm from my window.