With tired feet and no more gallery to appreciate, we retrieved our umbrellas and braced ourselves for a return to the inclement weather. Since it was still a bit too early for an early dinner (and we were not interested in a lupper), we stopped into a nearby coffee shop for a nice warm beverage (Kathleen: oat milk London Fog, me: pistachio milk maple latte) and to chat about the art we loved.

After that, we made our way to Lola Rosa, a location of a small chain of vegan restaurants, for dinner. I had Thai-style braised tofu and Kathleen had the “reuben”, which were both delicious. By the time we finished, the clouds had thickened considerably, so we settled our bill, and made a quick(er) dash to the McGill Métro station to get back to the hotel.

Admittedly, it took me a while to get to sleep, with the anticipation of the next 48 hours building!

Time to Prepare for Surgery

We stuck close to the hotel the following morning. I wanted to finish the roll of Tri-X I began on Sunday (mostly on too-perfect street our hotel backs on to: Trans Island Avenue), to get a little movement in, and so that we could visit the nearby grocery store to pick up a few things for the day’s meals.

Otherwise, it was a quiet day for us in the hotel, scroll our feeds, and catch up on videos, all with the usual hotel-room fare on the television. Once the afternoon hit, it was time to prepare for the following day’s surgery.¹

Note: I am posting photos from the mini-vacation part of our time in Montréal out of order. The first six rolls I exposed while there were all in colour and I still need to mix more colour developer. Since I can only lift so much and stand for so long, this will take a little time.

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1. I might have titled this post “…preparing for pain” but in the end, I did not feel tremendous amounts of pain. ↩︎