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La Banquise Rating: 💜💜💜 📍994 Rue Rachel E Montréal, QC H2J 2J3 Canada 📞  (514) 525-2415 Visit: May 6, 2018 Poutine is pretty much anywhere and everywhere in Montreal. Sometimes when you have too many options, it becomes difficult to make decisions (at least that's how it works with me). We chose this place because of the amount of reviews on Yelp.. and it was only A-OK. However, that may be our fault for ordering the "plainer" option. The grand size of "Taquise" seemed like the perfect choice for us. It was topped with tomatoes, guacamole, and sour cream. We probably should have ordered something with lots of meat and gravy, something packed with flavor. But then, I can also argue that anything with guacamole should be amazing. So I give this place a 3/5 rating, but it is worth going back to, especially since they're open 24/7! Make sure you use your google translate and get in the correct line: dine in or take out. There's a line of peop...

This past week was tough for this little guy. Since the beginning of the year, we noticed that his stomach has progressively gotten more sensitive. He did great during the move from CA to CT, then he had an episode where he vomited a couple of times at our hotel when we first arrived. Then he had a terrible night of vomiting all night one of the nights we were all moved in. He loves to eat and must have picked up something random, but no longer able to tolerate it as well in his old age. Last week we came back from Montreal and he had major problems. He's still finishing up his antibiotics and Pepcid, and just starting to have normal poops. Poor guy. He's getting lots of homemade food now and slowly mixing back his kibble (all crumbled up.) Its amazing how despite this rough week he was still in such good spirits and only really looked tired when we didn't pay attention to him. No take out for Nacho, but lots of sweet potatoes, rice and plain boiled chicken! H...

It's been awhile! We moved to Connecticut so Niner can go to grad school! We've been here for almost 2 months.  So far it's snowed on us four times. Those Nor-Easters were apparently bad this year and lasted until March and April which is not typical. Now it's just raining a lot. We went to one hike at a cool park just down the street from our tiny apartment. There are cherry blossoms everywhere and we found a cute park in New Haven where they were especially abundant. Of course my allergies are acting up. We went to Montreal last week for 3 days which I hope to post about soon. Nacho has been sick since our trip and his stay at the pet hotel. We're in the process of nursing him and his sensitive belly back to normal.  So far it's been different. Mostly we've been applying for jobs. Not much luck yet. As Niner put it, they don't know how awesome we are. The lady who approved us for our apartment at least thought we were great enough to give us a un...