Temp: Montreal -1 Degrees C, Mont Tremblant -1 degrees C
The warm weather continues. Slight opportunity for a sleep in this morning. Pack up, check out and squeezed the luggage into a camry. Just. get to International airport well ahead of time. Bus driver turns up about 1145. After a chat he asks if I would drive the bus for him to Mont Tremblant. I was happy to but did remind him which side of the road I drove on. The journey, supposed to be 2 hours, was relatively quick with low traffic heading in our direction. We arrived at the resort just after 1400 hrs. A very short stroll to reception would have been next if it wasn't for toting our huge, and now getting heavy, bags. Once that was over it was another short stroll up stairs through a Get Smart security system to a lift, the slowest ever, to our 3rd floor room. Le Johannsen Sud, room 363 at le place St Bernard. After briefly settling into the room (king sized bed, log fire, full kitchen, ensuite, balcony overlooking snow - snow we can actually walk out to) we headed into the village for a tour. First stop was to the Adventure Centre where we booked our sleigh ride for Christmas eve and our second lot of dog sledding for Christmas day. Then it was off to the ski hire place for boot fitting, skis and poles, and booking ski lesson for tomorrow. Once equipment was all sorted we had lunch at Le Shack. Great food of burgers, chicken and nachos under flying ducks, owl, indoor maple trees and pines. They weren't real but for decor it was all well done. Le shack is a very popular place.
Continuing our stroll through the village we visited an enormous amount of stores of all descriptions. Apart from a huge variety of ski gear stores and restaurants of all food tastes, there are the usual souvenir shops, specialty stores, booze outlets (Koonunga Shiraz Caberbet 2008 $19.95 CAD - actually a good variety of South Australian wines for reasonable prices, plus French, Italian, Californian, Argentinian, Chilean and Canadian), a basic supermarket and a place that serves Beaver Tails - yee hah! I had one for desert. Around the area are sitting places around wood fires. This was all around Place St Bernard. The Lift down to the lower part of the village was shut down about 5pm and we missed that. We took a brief tour of the night time tubing. Will have to try that out sometime! We headed down to the lower end of the village. I have to have dinner at the Caribou place. Found the French restaurant that does the raglette. Not too many places left for dinner over next few days so Monday night will have to do. The girls found some cats munching on scraps near another restaurant. White cats, blending well in the snow under the buildings they habitated. Further down the village road we passed a few bars, more restaurants (by the dozen) and came to the Maple Place. there we enjoyed maple taffy. Pour hot maple in a line on snow, wait 45 seconds until tacky and then roll up on a wooden stick. mmmmm.
Heading on back up to the hill is reasonably easy. gentle climb with gravel mixed in with the snow covers most of the icy bits.
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