My aunt is my father's younger sister. She and her husband emigrated to Germany in the 80s, and now he is an engineer for Siemens in Baden-Wuertenberg and she is a doctor who commutes to Bavaria. The four of them live in beautiful Konstanz, where I visited time and again both in college and afterwards.
My older cousin was a little girl when her parents left China. A few years later she joined them in Germany, and grew up in Germany and speaks fluent German and Chinese (and English and French too). She is now a medical student at Tuebingen. My younger cousin was born in Germany and is now about 10, and acts like a little German in spite of his parents' effort to teach him Chinese.
I love being with my aunt's family, and this time it was no different. It was a nice stroke a luck that they scheduled their trip to North America and decided to visit Canada just as I am in Montreal.
We had a very good time this evening strolling along the Old Town and by the river. There were so many people out on the street, eating, drinking, singing, dancing and generally having a great time. Today it wasn't as hot as the past few days. The temperature was perfect for walking outside.
Boyfriend and I also discovered a great neighborhood today -- around McGill University. We are planning to go there tomorrow morning to have coffee and to have breakfast.
Here are some other photos of Montreal I took in the past few days.
Old Montreal's charming streets.
Street musicians performing the theme song to "Love Story".
Lovely boardwalk by the St. Lawrence
A really cool exhibit about the life and inventions of Buckminster Fuller at the Biosphere.
Downtown -- the modern side of Montreal -- Very different from the Old Town, isn't it?
Contrasts of old and new, like this one, can be seen everywhere in Montreal. But this is one of my favorite photos from this trip -- the cathedral steeple against the pink (pink!) glass high-rise.
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