Vacation - Part the Second

After traipsing around New York and Vermont, my parents and I continued north for a whirlwind tour of Montreal. The weather did not cooperate, and the rain really cut into our sightseeing plans. We did a bit of walking and saw some churches (they have lots of those).
There was a wedding in this one, so we couldn't go in. We then went to La Ronde (it's a Six Flags really, but with a nicer name) to watch one of the fireworks show.

The rain held off just until the show was about to start and then it proceeded to pour and pour. Thanks, rain! The show was pretty, though, even through the wet. You'll have to take my word for that, because photography was not allowed. It's just as well because my camera would have been totally soaked. There was, of course, the obligatory eating-of-the-poutine.
It's pretty darned tasty. You have to admire a culture whose first impulse, when faced with something already pretty rich (i.e. french fries), is to cover it in cheese curds and smother it with gravy.

Then we headed home. Luckily, there was very clear signage.
We even brought the rain clouds with us.

More Swap Goodness

I got a wonderful package from my Ravelry Hockey Swap spoiler, the super-talented Lisa. She made a beautiful cross stitch Capitals logo. This picture does it no justice whatsoever! It's gotten lots of ooohs and aaahs from everyone who's seen it. I also got a pretty red and blue print bag, a skein of cushy hand dyed sock yarn, two bags (now down to one bag lol!) of Haribo peach gummies, Michigan dried cherries, berry mints, a notepad, a fuzzy turtle and a Petosky stone, the state stone of Michigan. Thank you so much for being a great pal, Lisa!

Opera and Spinning

A group of us went to Opera in the Outfield, a live simulcast of Washington National Opera's season opener, Barber of Seville, at Nationals Park. There was a possibility of rain so we opted for seats on the third base line. I worked on a sock.
Kim (ravelry login required) worked on a scarf. Kim's classmate Tracy worked on her homework, probably in a desperate attempt to escape from all the knitting weirdness.

I did a bit of spinning yesterday.
This was done on my poor Louet, which has been a very effective dust-gatherer in the past few months. It's 1.3 oz of 100% superwash merino. I wound the single into a ball and made a two ply from the two ends.

Spoiled Again!

My secret pal sent me another great package, which I am very late in blogging about. Sorry SP! As you can see, the theme is green, which always makes me happy. And so much goodness stuffed into a pretty green bag too! The wee sock "seed packet" is so cute and the cushy owl potholder is double knit, for twice the cushiness. Thank you so much Secret Pal!!!