We visit the Biodome

We spent much of today at Montreal's Biodome, which includes habitats representing various ecosystems from the rain forest to the Arctic. We saw a large variety of plants and animals, including everyone's favorite, the penguins. We were impressed by a giant anaconda and by the startling beauty of the hyacinth macaw, world's largest parrot.

Throughout our stay in Montreal, we have hung out at night in the Latin Quarter, where we have eaten Italian (the city's largest ethnic group), Indian and Thai. We walked out of one Indian restaurant because we were being totally ignored while the other customers were getting service. All we could guess is that it was a "regulars only" kind of establishment, or the management did not like Americans. That was our only bad experience, however. Tonight we are going to go downtown to the English-speaking section that is filled with pubs and restaurants and try something new. Old Montreal, where we had almost no luck seeing the lights we were supposed to see, has few restaurants.