A Montreal Kind of a Day

The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Peter is full on conferencing today. He left at 7 a.m. and won't return until 9 p.m. I have been exploring Montreal alone. First a little shopping on Rue St. Catherine's. My sunglasses smashed yesterday so I purchased a new pair as it is very hot and sunny here in Montreal. Then a stop at Sephora for eyebrow stencils (blame yesterday's Globe & Mail--How to Have the Perfect Eyebrows).
*Note the before eyebrows look very similar to the after ones I have discovered! Not perfect at all :P
 I walked to the Fine Arts Museum. I especially enjoyed the Napoleon exhibit: busts, paintings, furniture and house ware of (and from the house hold of ) The Emperor Napoleon and Empress Josephine. It also included personal items belonging to Napoleon: clothing, hat, boots, writing scroll etc. The personal tidbits are the best: Napoleon was a messy writer. His clothes and writing scroll were always smudged with ink. I did not know that Josephine had been married before and had 2 children--her 1st husband was guillotined during the French Revolution. She and Napoleon married and then divorced later as they had no heir. Napoleon remarried and had one son who died childless at age 22.

 I am resting at the suite and will later attempt a Zumba class at a studio about 20 minutes walking distance from the hotel. The class better be well air conditioned or I won't be able to deal with the heat. With the humidity index, it is over 40 oC. Our hotel room is nice: 2 bathrooms and a separate living room. I feel like I live in down town Montreal in a tiny apartment! Must get to work editing before that Zumba class. The Hotel is on top of the VIA Rail station which is great as there is every kind of take-out in the world in my basement!  Missing my girls  (and dogs too)  a lot. I don't really like to travel without them!